Sentence for Bosnian Serbs over genocide at Srebrenica
Vujadin Popovic, 53, and Ljubisa Beara, 70, were among seven former high-ranking military and police officials to be sentenced.
The court jailed five other defendants for between five and 35 years.
The case is the largest yet at the tribunal, set up to deal with war crimes in the Balkans during the 1990s.
Up to 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were killed in one week in July 1995 around the town of Srebrenica, where a UN safe haven had been declared two years earlier.
It was the worst massacre of the Bosnian war.
If the judgements against Popovic and Beara are upheld, they will be the first suspects to be definitively convicted for committing genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
'Personal view'
Both men, chiefs of security in parts of the Bosnian Serb army, were found guilty of genocide, extermination, murder and persecution....
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The court jailed five other defendants for between five and 35 years.
The case is the largest yet at the tribunal, set up to deal with war crimes in the Balkans during the 1990s.
Up to 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were killed in one week in July 1995 around the town of Srebrenica, where a UN safe haven had been declared two years earlier.
It was the worst massacre of the Bosnian war.
If the judgements against Popovic and Beara are upheld, they will be the first suspects to be definitively convicted for committing genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
'Personal view'
Both men, chiefs of security in parts of the Bosnian Serb army, were found guilty of genocide, extermination, murder and persecution....