The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today acquitted Naser Oric, a former commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in and around Srebrenica, of crimes committed during the 1992-1995 conflict.
Oric had been sentenced in 2006 to two years in prison for failing to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent the murder and cruel treatment of a number of Bosnian Serbs, but both the prosecution and the defence appealed the judgment. The Appeals Chamber found that the Trial Chamber failed to make all of the findings necessary to convict a person for command responsibility under the Tribunal’s statute. We have more information in a press release from the Tribunal.
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