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SARAJEVO, May 8 (FENA) – The BiH Prosecutor’s Office launched an appeal against the war crimes acquittal of Naser Orić and Sabahudin Muhić, who were cleared of crimes committed in villages surrounding Srebrenica and asked for a retrial to be ordered, claiming that legal and factual mistakes were made during the first-instance trial.
Prosecutor Miroslav Janjić called the first-instance acquittal a “one-of-a-kind verdict” in the history of the BiH court, alleging that it was based on an “imaginary piece of evidence”.
But Orić and Muhić's defense teams argued that the prosecution’s appeal was “confusing, unclear and incomprehensible”.
Orić, who was a commander of BiH Army territorial defense units, and Muhić, his subordinate, were accused of killing three Serb captives in the villages of Zalazje, Lolići and Kunjerac in 1992.
But the court ruled in October last year that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Orić and Muhić carried out the killings.
Orić had previously been acquitted of war crimes in the Srebrenica area in 1992 by the UN tribunal in The Hague, BIRN reports.
(FENA)
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