**A former Bosnian Serb army officer has been sentenced to 30 years in jail over the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica in 1995.**Bosnia’s top war crimes court said Milorad Trbic took part in planning to capture, detain, execute and bury Bosniaks “with genocidal intent”.
In all, as many as 8,000 men and boys were killed in a week in Srebrenica.
The court in Sarajevo has already jailed a number of other people for their role in the massacre.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is set to go on trial at The Hague on 26 October charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the killings at Srebrenica.
Execution sites
The killings occurred during a week-long spree by Bosnian Serb forces, who overran the UN-protected Srebrenica enclave.
SREBRENICA
- Muslim enclave in Serb-held territory
- Declared UN “safe area” in April 1993
- Bosnian Serb forces overrun the area in 1995
- 23,000 women and children deported
- Up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed
In July 2008, seven Bosnian Serbs were convicted of genocide and jailed for up to 42 years over the killings.
In the latest case, the court said Trbic personally selected detention and execution sites.
He was later involved in exhuming the victims’ remains and reburying them in other mass graves to hide the crime, the court said.
Trbic was originally indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
His case was transferred to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007.