The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rendered and on 16 August 2021 delivered in open session a Trial Judgment in the case against the accused Rade Garić, finding the accused Rade Garić guilty of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172 Paragraph 1 Sub-Paragraph (h) as read with Sub-Paragraphs (a), (e), (i) and (k), all in conjunction with Article 29 and Article 180(1) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina /CC BiH/. The Court sentenced the accused Rade Garić to 20 (twenty) years' imprisonment.

The accused Rade Garić has been found guilty because he, in the period from the beginning of April 1992 until the end 1992, in Vlasenica Municipality, as part of a widespread and systematic attack by the Serbian Municipal Staff of the Vlasenica Territorial Defense, paramilitary formations, the Army of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later renamed the Army of the Republika Srpska), the Ministry of Interior of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) and segments of the Yugoslav People's Army (namely the Novi Sad Corps) directed against the Bosniak civilians of Vlasenica Municipality, with knowledge of that attack and that his acts constituted part thereof, persecuted the Bosniak civilians of Vlasenica Municipality on political, national, cultural, ethnic and religious grounds by way of murders, imprisonment or other sever deprivation of liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law, enforced disappearance of persons and other inhumane acts of a similar character committed with the intent to cause great suffering or serious injury to body or to physical or mental health.

The accused Rade Garić has also been found guilty because he, during a widespread and systematic attack undertaken by the Army of the Republika Srpska and the Ministry of Interior of the Republika Srpska in the period from 6 July 1995 until the end of August 1995 against the Bosniak civilians in the UN Safe Area of Srebrenica, Rade Garić, in his capacity as leader of the Intervention Platoon that was part of the Vlasenica Brigade, with knowledge of that attack and that his acts constituted part thereof – within which persecution and extermination of a part of a group of the Bosniak people were carried out; the entire Bosniak civilian population (up to 40,000) was removed from the UN Safe Area of Srebrenica and more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed – persecuted the Bosniak civilians by undertaking the acts charged qualified as other inhumane acts of a similar character committed with the intent to cause great suffering or serious injury to body or to physical or mental health under Article 172 Paragraph 1 Sub-Paragraph (h) of the CC BiH as read with Sub-Paragraph k) of the CC BiH, all in conjunction with Article 29 a and Article 180(1) of the CC BiH.

By the same judgment, the accused Rade Garić has been acquitted of individual charges as indicated in the enacting clause of the Judgment, whereby he would have committed the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172 Paragraph 1 Sub-Paragraph (h) as read with Sub-Paragraphs (g) and (i) of the CC BiH, all in conjunction with Article 29 and Article 180(1) thereof.