SARAJEVO, February 27 (FENA) - Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanović has been acquitted of committing crimes against humanity by ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack on the village of Resagići near Srebrenica in May 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Wednesday acquitted Slavko Milovanović, a former member of the reserve police forces at the Public Security Station in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality, of crimes against humanity.
Milovanović was found not guilty of going to the village of Resagići on May 8, 1992, accompanied by a group of members of military, paramilitary and police formations, participating in an attack and giving an order to burn houses which women and children were forced to leave, BIRN reports.
The judge said the prosecution had not been able to prove the allegations against Milovanović.
“The only thing the state prosecution has proved is the fact that Milovanović was a reserve policeman, but it has not managed to prove that he was a superior officer in his unit or to whom he could issue orders.
The witnesses said that a reserve policeman could not act as a superior officer,” said presiding Judge Darko Samardžić said.
The court found that it was undisputed that the attack on Resagići happened on May 8, 1992, but the prosecution could not prove that the defendant was there.
The verdict can be appealed.
(FENA) S. R.