Seven Bosnian Serbs have been convicted of genocide and jailed over the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica in 1995.
After a two-year trial, the Bosnian war crimes court in Sarajevo ruled that the men helped in the systematic murder of more than 1,000 Bosniaks in one day.
The victims were separated from their families and kept in a warehouse in the village of Kravica before being killed.
In all, as many as 8,000 men and boys were killed in a week in Srebrenica.
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Four were acquitted and the other seven were given sentences ranging from 38 to 42 years.
"The defendants knew that by killing the Bosnian Muslim men, they participated in the permanent extermination of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica," said judge Hilmo Vucinic.
"They consciously killed hundreds of Bosnian Muslims with the aim of permanently removing Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica."
The killings were part of a week-long killing spree by Bosnian Serb forces which took place at a warehouse of an agricultural co-operative.
The case was the first before the court of Bosnia-Hercegovina in which the suspects were accused of genocide, and the first trial for crimes committed in Srebrenica.
Judges from Bosnia, the Netherlands and the United States took part in the trial.
(BBC)
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