Appeals of Five Srebrenica Officers Heard  Lawyers claim
numerous elements of the judgements were flawed.   • Vujadin
Popovic, Ljubomir Beara, Drago Nikolic and Vinko Pandurevic in
the ICTY courtroom. (Photo: ICTY)  The appeal hearing for five
Bosnian Serb army officers convicted for their involvement in
the 1995 Srebrenica massacre took place this week at the Hague
tribunal.  The five defendants – Vujadin Popovic, Ljubisa Beara,
Drago Nikolic, Vinko Pandurevic, and Radivoje Miletic – were
part of the biggest trial ever to take place at the tribunal. It
began in 2006 and the judgement was rendered in 2010.
(Convictions in Srebrenica Seven Trial.)  A sixth defendant in
the trial, Ljubomir Borovcanin, did not appeal against his 17
year prison sentence and was therefore not at this week’s
hearing. The seventh man convicted in the case, Milan Gvero,
died in February 2013.  Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia,
was declared a United Nations safe area in 1993 but fell to
Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995. In the