ICTY Upholds Sentence of Bosnian Serb Army General (April 8, 2015) [1]
On April 8, 2015, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued its judgment [3] in Prosecutor v. Tolimir upholding the convictions and sentence of Zdravko Tolimir for crimes committed in Srebrenica in 1995. According to the press release [4], the Appeals Chamber confirmed “the Trial Chamber’s finding that Tolimir participated in two joint criminal enterprises (JCE): one to murder the able-bodied men of Srebrenica and the other to forcibly remove the Bosnian Muslim population from Srebrenica and Žepa.” The Chamber upheld Tolimir’s “convictions for genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions, and inhumane acts (forcible transfer), on the basis of Tolimir’s participation in these two JCEs,” “upheld [his] sentence to life imprisonment,” and “partly reversed [his] conviction for genocide.” Tolimir’s remaining grounds of appeal were dismissed.