Eight former members of the Bosnian Serb military were acquitted yesterday by the Court of BiH of charges of crimes against humanity. The soldiers faced charges stemming from their service in the Rogatica area in 1992. The Court ultimately found that there was not sufficient evidence that the men had been involved in attacks on civilians.
The verdict said that the prosecution only proved during the trial that the defendants were members of Bosnian Serb forces in Rogatica, while the other allegations in the indictment “remained in the domain of assumption”.
Presiding judge Zeljka Marenic said that only two protected witnesses were eyewitnesses to the crime and that the court found their testimonies “uncertain, unreliable, unconvincing and contradictory”.
