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Radislav Krstić - Appeals Chamber Judgement, 19 April 2004

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague confirms the first-instance judgment from August 2001, qualifying the crimes committed in Srebrenica as genocide. The responsibility of General Krstic has been reduced from that of a "direct perpetrator" to an "aider and abettor of genocide," and his sentence has consequently been reduced from 46 to 35 years in prison. Noting that "the law must not shy away from referring to the crime committed by its proper name," the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal in The Hague today decided unanimously that there is only one proper name for the massacre committed in 1995 in Srebrenica – genocide. This is the first final judgment in the Tribunal’s ten years of the existence finding that the most serious crime – genocide – was committed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims," it states in the summary of the judgment read out in court by the Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber, Theodor Meron, "the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the forty thousand Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, a group which was emblematic of the Bosnian Muslims in general… The Bosnian Serb forces were aware, when they embarked on this genocidal venture, that the harm they caused would continue to plague the Bosnian Muslims. The Appeals Chamber states unequivocally that the law condemns, in appropriate terms, the deep and lasting injury inflicted, and calls the massacre in Srebrenica by its proper name: genocide. Those responsible will bear this stigma, and it will serve as a warning for those who may in future contemplate the commission of such a heinous act." Srebrenica genocide: http://srebrenica.sensecentar.org/ https://sensecentar.org/ ICTY Case Number: IT-98-33-A