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The verdict was handed down on November 23 but was not made public.

“Just like in the first-instance judgement, the appeals chamber finds it was correctly determined that the attack on Srebrenica was conducted and that Ministry of Internal Affairs units, of which the defendant was a member, participated in that attack, among others,” the appeals verdict said.

“However, the disputable issue that had to be resolved was whether the defendant himself, by providing members of the special police brigade and supervising them, took part in that attack. That has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt,” it added.

The first-instance verdict in February this year acquitted Saric of issuing instructions for massacres, and cleared him of exercising control over his deputy Ljubomir Borovcanin, who the Hague Tribunal sentenced to 17 years in prison for crimes in Srebrenica.

The court said there was no evidence that Saric issued any type of orders to Borovcanin or lower-ranking chiefs of the special police brigade.

Borovcanin was freed in 2016 after serving two-thirds of his sentence.

Saric was also found not guilty of assisting members of a joint criminal enterprise in committing genocide, and of committing war crimes in the Zvornik area.

According to the verdict, there was no evidence that the defendant saw the Srebrenica captives or the Bosniaks who were killed.

The verdict is final and cannot be appealed.

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