In 1998 Krstić was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the genocide of around 8,000 Bosniak POW and civilians on 11 July 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre – Europe 's first genocide since World War II . On 2 August 2001 , Krstić became the first man convicted of genocide by the Tribunal , and was sentenced to 46 years in prison . He was only the third person ever to have been convicted under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . The sentence was subsequently shortened to 35 years in prison when an appeal court upheld a lesser charge for aiding and abetting genocide
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Radislav Krstić