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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...

Sensational confession of Ibran Mustafic, Bosnian Muslim war veteran and politician: "We were killing our own people in Srebrenica."At least 1,000 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica were killed by their compatriots during the breakthrough to Tuzla in July 1995, because there were lists of those who ” have to be prevented from reaching the freedom,at any cost” said one of the founders of the SDA in Srebrenica, Ibran Mustafic. ** Ibran Mustafic is the author of the book “Planned Chaos” whereas some of the crimes committed by soldiers of the (Muslim) Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbs are for the...

The trial of Naser Oric, the former commander of the Muslim forces in the Srebrenica enclave, on war crimes charges for alleged atrocities against Bosnian Serbs during the first two years of the Bosnian war, will open at the UN court at the Hague tomorrow. Oric, 37, is the first Muslim to be charged with war crimes committed in the Srebrenica area but his alleged crimes are not related to the 1995 massacre of 7,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serb troops. The arrest and transfer of Oric in April last year sparked controversy among Bosnian Muslim survivors of the massacre. Some...

NATO troops arrest former Bosnian Muslim commander in Srebrenica Friday April 11, 2003 SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia have arrested Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, NATO in Bosnia said Friday.Oric, 35, was the wartime army commander in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where the worst massacre of civilian Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war took place. He was arrested late Thursday.However, Oric, who was in charge of the defense of the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from Bosnian Serb forces during the war, is accused of war crimes...