Two former Serb policemen were sentenced to 31 years each in jail in Bosnia today for aiding genocide in the town of Srebrenica in 1995.
The men were sentenced by the Balkan state's war crimes court for aiding genocide and taking part in the killing of more than 7,000 Muslims in the town.
Radomir Vukovic, 36, and Zoran Tomic, 38, were members of the 2nd Sekovici Special Police Detachment which intended to partly exterminate a group of Muslims and help remove forcibly 40,000 civilians from the eastern enclave, Judge Senadin Bektasevic said in the Sarajevo court.
Bektasevic said the two participated in the capture and execution of at least 1,000 Muslim men who tried to escape Srebrenica through the woods and were detained in a warehouse in the nearby village of Kravice.
Bosnian Serb forces, commanded by Gen Ratko Mladic, killed about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after the eastern town, which was a UN-protected safe zone, fell into their hands.
Reuters