Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Srebrenica Crimes

The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday found Milan Bogdanovic, the former commander of the Sixth Company of special police units at the Public Security Station in Zvornik, not guilty of committing crimes during an attack by Serb forces on Srebrenica in July 1995.

The court found that the prosecution had not presented sufficient evidence of his involvement in the murders, forced resettlements, unlawful detentions and forced disappearances of Bosniak men from Srebrenica.

“No witnesses saw or heard that the defendant himself carried out any of the actions described in the indictment or ordered members of the Sixth Company to do anything like that. The prosecution has not proved that members of that Company participated in the capture and escorting of the men, or in enabling others to kill them,” said presiding judge Vesna Jesenkovic.

Bogdanovic was also acquitted on a second count which charged him with responsibility for the detention and disappearances of Bosniak civilians in his capacity as commander of the police station in Skelani.

The verdict can be appealed.