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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger

Bosnian Serb general Krstić says he ‘aided and abetted’ Srebrenica genocide

Radislav Krstić.
Radislav Krstić during his trial at The Hague, where in 2001 he was sentenced to 46 years in prison. Photograph: Fred Ernst/EPA

A 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.

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