The ICTY Appeals Chamber today, 3 July 2008, acquitted Naser Orić, a former commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in and around Srebrenica, of crimes committed during the 1992-1995 conflict. On 30 June 2006, the ICTY Trial Chamber found that Orić was guilty of failing to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent the murder and cruel treatment of a number of Bosnian Serbs held at the Srebrenica Police Station and a building behind the Srebrenica municipal building in the period between 27 December 1992 and 20 March 1993. The Trial Chamber acquitted the accused of a number of other alleged…
