Identifying Responsibility
On November 16 indictments were brought against the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and the leader Radovan Karadzic by the International War Crimes Tribunal. These charges included genocide, crimes against humanity and violations against the laws and customs of war at Srebrenica.
Radovan Karadzic, the former senior commander of the Bosnian Serbs was found guilty of genocide in absentia by the International War Crimes Tribunal and received a sentence of forty-six years in prison.
On 19 April 2002 the Dutch government resigned after a report stated that it was in part responsible for the events at Srebrenica because the Dutch troops were too lightly armed to carry out the task they had been given.
This stage of the hostilities ended on 21 November 1995 when the warring groups initialled a peace treaty at Dayton, Ohio, which was finalized in Paris on 14 December 1995. This agreement brought about a definition of the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a national multiethnic government. There were two equal sized republics, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Serb based Republika Srska.
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