BFF-42 Bosnian ‘Srebrenica defender’ Oric acquitted of war crimes

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Bosnian ‘Srebrenica defender’ Oric acquitted of war crimes

SARAJEVO, Nov 30, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Former Bosnian military commander Naser Oric, hailed by supporters as the heroic “defender of Srebrenica”, was acquitted Friday by a local court of war crimes during the country’s 1990s conflict.

“Naser Oric and” his fellow fighter “Sabahudin Muhic are acquitted of charges of having committed during the war … crimes against prisoners,” judge Tihomir Lukes said.

The two men were tried for the killing of three Serb prisoners in the Srebrenica area at the start of the 1992-95 war, which pitted the country’s Serb, Muslim and Croat communities against each other.

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