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  • Ex-Bosnian army chief acquitted (Muslim killings of Bosnian Croats)

    11/16/2005 3:27:35 PM PST · by joan · 14 replies · 348+ views
    BBC ^ | November 16, 2005
    Former Bosnian Army commander Sefer Halilovic has been cleared of claims he was responsible for the killings of Croat civilians in 1993. The UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague said prosecutors had failed to prove that he was in charge of troops who carried out the killings. Mr Halilovic was the highest-ranking Muslim army officer to be tried for war crimes relating to the conflict. He was a minister in the Bosnian government when he surrendered in 2001. The charges related to killing of at least 62 civilians in the villages of Grabovica and Uzdol. They were occupied during...