UN court ruling will Set Srebrenica Genocide
UN Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal will issue its decision on Wednesday, the Bosnian Serb general, Zdravko Tolimir, who was charged with genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, which is the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
Prosecutors want life sentence for Tolimir, considered the right hand the head of the Bosnian Serb army, Ratko Mladic who is also being tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
Defending himself, Tolimir said that what happened in Srebrenica in July 1995 "against the terrorists," not the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys after the Dutch peacekeepers in a "safe" was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces in under Mladic.
Tolimir is currently 64 years old, was accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992 to 1995 Balkan country that claimed 100,000 lives and caused 2.2 million people homeless.
He faces eight charges, including murder and deportation related to the attack on Srebrenica.
Prosecutors say former intelligence chief was part of the grand scheme of thousands of murders linked Muslim men and boys and the expulsion of thousands of women and children in the region in order to create a "Serbian state mono-ethnic."
Prosecutors want life sentence for Tolimir, considered the right hand the head of the Bosnian Serb army, Ratko Mladic who is also being tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
Defending himself, Tolimir said that what happened in Srebrenica in July 1995 "against the terrorists," not the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys after the Dutch peacekeepers in a "safe" was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces in under Mladic.
Tolimir is currently 64 years old, was accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992 to 1995 Balkan country that claimed 100,000 lives and caused 2.2 million people homeless.
He faces eight charges, including murder and deportation related to the attack on Srebrenica.
Prosecutors say former intelligence chief was part of the grand scheme of thousands of murders linked Muslim men and boys and the expulsion of thousands of women and children in the region in order to create a "Serbian state mono-ethnic."
