However , in line with a majority of legal scholars , the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) and the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) have ruled that , in order for actions to be deemed genocide , there must be physical or biological destruction of a protected group and a specific intent to commit such destruction . To date , only the Srebrenica massacre has been found to be a genocide by the ICTY , a finding upheld by the ICJ . On 24 March 2016 , former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and the first president of the Republika Srpska , was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica , war crimes , and crimes against humanity — 10 of the 11 charges in total — and sentenced to 40 years ' imprisonment
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Bosnian genocide