An appeal tribunal at the UN War Crimes Court has reduced the sentence of Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic from 46 years to 35 years for aiding and abetting genocide.
In his appeal, Krstic, who led the troops that captured Srebrenica, sought to overturn his 2001 genocide conviction by arguing that the number of victims was ‘too insignificant’ to be considered genocide.
Earlier, the court confirmed that the massacre constituted genocide. However, the court decided that Krstic was not a principle participant in the genocide and lowered his sentence.
More than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by ethnic Serb troops within a week of the capture of the eastern Bosnian town in July 1995.
The death toll is among the highest in a single conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.
