"On 12 June 2007, the Trial Chamber sentenced Martic to 35 years" imprisonment for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war, including persecutions, murder, torture, deportation, attacks on civilians and wanton destruction of civilian areas," reads a press release issued on the ICTY web site.
"The Trial Chamber found that Martic had participated in a joint criminal enterprise whose aim was to create a unified Serb territory through the forcible removal of the non-Serb population inhabiting areas under his control."
"The Trial Chamber found that virtually the entire Croat and other non-Serb population was expelled from the area under Martic"s control. His guilt was affirmed for the crimes committed in the villages of Hrvatska Dubica, Bacin, Saborsko, Lipovaca, Skabrnja, Nadin, and Bruska among others. He was also found guilty of ordering indiscriminate rocket attacks on the city of Zagreb on 2 and 3 May 1995 in which seven people died and more than 200 were wounded," reads the press release.
After both the prosecution and defence appealed the first-instance ruling, the Hague-based UN tribunal's Appeals Chamber affirmed Martic"s guilt and 35-year sentence on 8 October 2008.
The UN court indicted 161 persons for serious violations of humanitarian law committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. Proceedings against 120 persons have been concluded.