17 Nov The president of the UN war crimes court in The Hague criticised denying that the Srebrenica massacres were an act of genocide

The president of the UN war crimes court in The Hague, Theodor Meron, criticised Serbia for denying that the Srebrenica massacres were an act of genocide.

The president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Theodor Meron, challenged Serbian Prime Minister during their meeting in Belgrade.

Theodor Meron said that “numerous judgements” before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY made it “absolutely clear that the crimes committed in Srebrenica in 1995 constituted the crime of genocide”.

The Bosnian Serb Army under the command of Ratko Mladic captured the town of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, then killed more than 7,000 men and boys from the enclave.

The crime was ruled an act of genocide by the International Court of Justice as well as the ICTY.

The ICTY and domestic courts have sentenced 45 people to a total of 699 years in prison – plus three life sentences – for genocide, crimes against humanity and other offences against Bosniaks in Srebrenica in July 1995.

The Serbian government issued a press release about the meeting between Brnabic and Meron without mentioning the MICT president’s criticism of her claims about Srebrenica. The press release focused instead on the topic of prison conditions for Serb war crimes convicts.

References from the offical webiste of the Balkan Transitional Justice