On 16 October 2020 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered a judgment in the case of Srećko Aćimović, finding the accused Srećko Aćimović guilty of the criminal offense of Genocide under Article 141 of Criminal Code of the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY), as read with Article 24 of the same Code (aiding and abetting). The Court sentenced him to 9 (nine) years of imprisonment. Pursuant to Article 50(1) CC SFRY, the time the accused spent in pre-trial custody, from the moment of his arrest on 30 November 2015, to 29 December 2015, shall be credited towards his sentence of imprisonment.

The accused Srećko Aćimović has been found guilty that during a widespread and systematic attack launched between 6 July 1995 and 1 November 1995 by VRS and RS MUP members against Bosniaks in the UN safe area of Srebrenica he aided and abetted in the furtherance of common goal, joint criminal enterprise – to kill the male members of a group of Bosniaks who as Bosniaks of Eastern Bosnia constituted a significant part of that ethnic group, thus aiding and abetting in the partial extermination of Bosniaks as a national, religious and ethnic group.