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The court on Wednesday overturned the acquittal of Bosniak former servicemen Huso Salihovic and Ibro Jakubovic and ordered a retrial because it said the original verdict had wrongly interpreted the key witness’s testimony.

The two men had been acquitted of killing a Serb by cutting his throat and stabbing him several times during a Bosnian Army attack on the village of Ratkovici in the Srebrenica municipality in June 1992.

Explaining its decision, the court said that the original trial had wrongly assessed “inconsequential discrepancies” between the only eyewitness’s original account of the murder and the one he gave at the trial, “such as whether the victim moaned and how long the moaning lasted”.

The court said the acquittal verdict had disregarded “the fact that the witness was being examined almost 18 years after this event”.

A date for the two men’s retrial has yet to be set.

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