Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been found guilty of genocide during the Bosnian War.
Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a UN court for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout the conflict from 1992 to 1995.
He was found guilty of genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Europe's worst mass murder since the Holocaust.
The carefully planned operation saw Serb forces transport Muslim men to sites around the Srebrenica enclave, in eastern Bosnia, before gunning them down and dumping their bodies into mass graves.
Karadzic was also convicted of nine other charges including murder and the hostage-taking of UN peacekeepers.
However, the court acquitted Karadzic in a second genocide charge, for a campaign to drive Bosnian Muslims and Croats out of villages claimed by Serb forces.
Upon hearing the sentence, the 70-year-old slumped slightly in his chair, but otherwise showed little emotion.
Peter Robinson, part of Karadzic's legal team, said he would appeal.
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