Pero Kovacevic Acquitted

The appeals chamber of the Brcko district court acquitted Pero Kovacevic of charges that he participated in war crimes in Brcko.

The chamber concluded that there wasn’t sufficient evidence demonstrating that Kovacevic robbed and killed four Serb women from Srebrenik and Gradacac. Kovacevic was responsible for transporting the women to territory under the control of the Bosnian Serb Army in October 1994.

Judge Srdjan Nedic said the evidence was insufficient to come to a conclusion regarding Kovacevic’s guilt.

Kovacevic was acquitted during the first instance trial in 2008. The appeals chamber repealed this verdict.

He fled after the case was sent to a retrial and was on the run until his arrest in Slovenia in October 2015.