Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina upholds Oric indictment

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday upheld an indictment against Naser Oric, the former commander of the 28th division of the (Muslim) Army of BiH in the Srebrenica area who is charged with war crimes against Serb prisoners

The Court of BiH upheld all counts of the indictment against Oric and his comrade Sabahudin Muhic, Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the BiH Prosecutor's Office, told Radio Television of Republika Srpska.

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Oric and Muhic are charged with the murder of three Serb prisoners in the Zalazje, Lolici and Kunjerac villages in the Srebrenica area in 1992.

The crimes in the Serb villages were not included in the indictment in the proceedings against Oric before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which cleared him of any wrongdoing in 2008, reasoning that he had no control over the Army of BiH, which committed the crimes.

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The Serbian prosecutor's office, which has conducted an investigation into crimes committed by Muslim forces in the Podrinje region, is suspecting Oric and three of his other comrades of destruction of Serb villages, torture and murders of civilians and execution of nine prisoners.

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According to testimonies in the investigation, Oric ordered the "Condors" - a Muslim unit in Srebrenica - to "cleanse" Zalazje and other Serb villages in the municipality.

One of the witnesses described how a group led by Oric killed several Serb civilian prisoners with knives, while Oric used his own knife to gouge out the eyes of Srebrenica judge Slobodan Ilic and subsequently kill him.

(Telegraf.co.uk/Tanjug)