Sarajevo  - A Bosnian court on Friday sentenced a former Serb army officer to 30 years in prison for his role in genocide of Muslims at Srebrenica 14 years ago.

The court said it sentenced Milorad Trbic for taking part in a "criminal enterprise between July 12 and November 30, 1995, ... with the goal to capture, detain and execute all Bosniak (Muslim) men of military age from the Srebrenica enclave."

According to the verdict, Trbic also participated in the exhumation of the victims' remains from mass graves and their transfer to other locations in an effort to hide traces of the crime.

Some 8,000 Muslim boys and men were rounded up and summarily executed after the fall of Srebrenica to Serb forces in July 1995.

Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave within what was Serb territory, was declared a safe haven that was protected by Dutch troops serving with a UN peacekeeping force.

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-95 war, goes on trial for genocide at the UN war crimes tribunal on October 26.

His military chief and the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica operation, Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, remains at large, in hiding in Serbia.(dpa)