Reuters, 19/10 15:23 CET
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A Bosnian Muslim
wartime commander who defended Srebrenica against separatist Serb forces
pleaded not guilty on Monday to the killing of three Serb prisoners
earlier in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
Naser Oric’s trial is highly sensitive in the ethnically
divided Balkan country, where many Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks regard
him as a hero and Serbs think he is a war criminal.
Oric was acquitted of the charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2008, but was arrested in June in Switzerland on a warrant from Serbia over the prisoner killings near Srebrenica.
He was extradited, however, to Bosnia, which insisted he
should be tried in the country where the crimes allegedly occurred. He
is being tried by a state court set up to handle war crimes cases,
easing the burden on the ICTY.
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Source: Euronews
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