Cekic, then the director of Sarajevo University’s Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law and a Bosnian victim of the war, had hoped the court would punish his compatriots’ deaths and acknowledge them as victims of genocide. Instead, the court declined to classify a vast majority of the Bosnian deaths as genocidal, leading Cekic to feel the ruling was a profound betrayal.
The court ruled that Serbia committed genocide only in one instance: during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where Bosnian Serb fighters systematically killed roughly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. This specific incident was deemed genocidal due to the explicit intent to destroy that group, while all other killings, though horrific, were categorized differently.
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