Video: 'Holland - War criminal sentenced'

(Friday, November 29, 1996) — The international tribunal on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia handed down its first verdict today, sentencing a Croat who served in the Bosnian Serb army to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslim civilians in 1995 near Srebrenica.

Drazen Erdemovic, 25, who confessed to taking part in an execution squad and killing scores of unarmed men, was charged with ”crimes against humanity.”

The conviction is the first by a war crimes tribunal since the trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II.