Political leaders from Serbia and Republika Srpska strongly criticised the acquittal of the Bosnian Army’s former Srebrenica commander Naser Oric, who was cleared of killing Serb prisoners of war.
Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, was found not guilty of killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in 1992 - a verdict that sparked strong reactions from war victims.
The trial of Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica who is accused of killing Serb prisoners of war, centred on a key witness’s testimony - but was it true or false?
Ahead of his war crimes verdict, Naser Oric, a wartime defender of Srebrenica who once worked as Slobodan Milosevic’s bodyguard, says he is “loved” by Bosniaks - but is also despised by many Serbs.
A prosecution witness testified that Serbs in the village of Zalazje in the Srebrenica area surrendered after an attack by the Bosnian Army led by commander Naser Oric in July 1992.
Prosecution witness Milan Jeremic told the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday at the trial of three former Bosnian Army soldiers that Serbs in Zalazje surrendered after the village was attacked.
A witness told the high-profile trial of the Bosnian Army’s former Srebrenica commander Naser Oric that the ex-general told him that he “cut the throat” of one of his alleged Serb victims.
A prosecution witness at the war crimes trial of Bosniak commander Naser Oric, accused of killing three Serbs, testified that Serb troops were captured by the defendant in July 1992.
The first protected witness at the war crimes trial of Naser Oric said that he feared the Bosnian Army ex-commander, who he alleged killed Serb prisoners in Srebrenica in 1992.
Former Srebrenica commander Oric went on trial in Sarajevo for war crimes, accused of being responsible for killing three Serbs in 1992 - a case which has angered the country’s Bosniaks.