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Excellent inaugural meeting of our newest board in the East Midlands. Thank you to all who attended this evening to plan so many exciting activities for this year's Srebrenica Memorial Week.

Serge Brammertz, former Prosecutor at the ICTY has said that yesterday's ruling should prove even to Karadžić's diehard supporters that he is no hero & he will instead "be remembered by history as a war criminal responsible for horrific human suffering." https://t.co/O1vKooaU6g

'The tribunal finally did it. They sentenced this war criminal with the aim to prevent such crimes from ever happening again'. Some survivors shared their reaction to yesterday's ruling which would not have happened without their tireless campaigning, strength & determination.

We welcome today's news that Radovan Karadžić has been sentenced to life in prison and condemn the actions of those seeking to establish a commission that aims to re-write the facts that Srebrenica was a genocide. Full statement here: https://t.co/MNWZT7Vv7D