Two Serb policemen have been handed lengthy jail terms by a court in Sarajevo on Friday, for ‘aiding genocide’.
Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric ordered their men to take part in the separating of Muslim men and boys from other villagers and then killing over a thousand of the detainees.
Jevic, who was deputy commander of a Bosnian Serb police brigade was sentenced to 35 years, while Djuric, the commander of the brigade’s first company, was jailed for 30 years.
The men “aided in the partial destruction of an ethnic group and are guilty of aiding genocide,” Sarajevo court judge Mira Smajlovic ruled.
“With their participation in the massacre the members of this unit were a link in the chain that was carrying out a genocide,” added the judge.
Over 8,000 Bosniaks were killed during the Srebrenica massacre, making it the worst single atrocity in Europe since the Second World War.
