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Bosnia’s war crimes court on Monday acquitted the wartime commander of Srebrenica, who was accused of committing atrocities against Serbs during the 1992-95 Balkan conflict. The acquittal of Naser Oric immediately prompted anger from Serbian leaders, with Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin saying the court ruling “threatens security, trust and reconciliation in the whole of the Balkans.” Oric was accused of war crimes against three Serb prisoners of war who were slain in villages around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in the early days of the conflict. A panel of judges presiding over the trial ruled Monday the prosecution did...

Tuesday, 05 October 2004 Bosnia: Muslim Commander Charged In Pre-Srebrenica Atrocities By Don Hill When Bosnian Serb militias massacred more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995, they imprinted the name of the town of their crime -- Srebrenica -- on the world's consciousness. The tragedy came to be known, in the words of U.S. writer George Will, as "Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War." Less known, however, was an earlier campaign by Bosnian Muslims against their Serb neighbors. This week, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia starts the war crimes trial of Naser Oric....

THE HAGUE, September 24 (FENA/Hina) – The trial of former commander of defence in Srebrenica Naser Oric before the Hague Tribunal will start on October 6 and is expected to last approximately one year, spokesperson for the ICTY said on Thursday. Oric (37) is charged with war crimes committed by Bosniak forces against Serbs in the broader Srebrenica area in 1992 and 1993. The indictment states that between May 1992 and March 1993 RBiH Army forces under his command carried out various operations against the Bosnian Serb Army, which held Muslim enclaves in East Bosnia in encirclement. In those operations...