Jailed Bosnian Serb general says he aided and abetted Srebrenica genocide

14/11/2024 18:29 The Guardian

Confession met with scepticism after other war criminals made similar statements to win early release from prisonA Bosnian Serb general jailed by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has confessed to having “aided and abetted the genocide”.Survivors and families of the more than 8,300 people who died in the mass killing reacted with scepticism to the confession by Radislav Krstić, a corps commander who led the assault on the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and oversaw the execution of captured men and boys. Continue reading...

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