1.   The ruling by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague is the first genocide conviction delivered by a war crimes court in Europe.

2.   Prosecution asks for genocide conviction.

3.   Prosecutors gained their first genocide conviction in August.

4.   Prosecutors had complained that the original ruling on Jelisic had set rigid standards for a genocide conviction.

5.   German courts have tried and convicted various Nazi war criminals, but this was the first case resulting in a genocide conviction.

6.   He had appealed three genocide convictions and his sentence.

7.   In August, the Yugoslav tribunal rendered its first genocide conviction against Bosnian Serb Gen. Radislav Krstic.

8.   The first two to be sentenced to death for genocide convictions were Deo Bizimana, a former hospital aide, and Egide Gatanaza, a former local administrator.

9.   The judgment was the first genocide conviction ever handed down by an international court.

10.   There has not yet been a genocide conviction.