The local media carried parts of the verdict which confirmed Martic's involvement in a project aimed at establishing a Serb-dominated state that was initiated by Slobodan Milosevic.
The few comments included those by people who were dissatisfied with the judgement.
The president of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), Mladen Bosic, said that the verdict was "shocking".
"The verdict is shocking because he was the leader of a people that was expelled from Croatia," Bosic told reporters in Banja Luka. The SDS used to be led for years by the most wanted fugitive from the Hague tribunal, Radovan Karadzic.
Savo Strbac, president of the information-documentation centre "Veritas", told the Bosnian Serb television network RT RS Martic's verdict showed that the Hague tribunal was applying double standards and that Serbs were given extremely harsh sentences.
One of Martic's close associates and minister in the Croatian Serb rebel government, Slobodan Peric, who now lives in the Bosnian Serb entity and runs a legal practice, said that he did not follow the trial, but knew that Martic had not done any of the things he was charged with.