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ICTY Acquits Former Serbian Intelligence Chief, Deputy

May 30, 2013

The UN war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Serbian intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic and his deputy on war-crimes charges in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s.

Judge Alphons Orie on May 30 ordered the immediate release of Stanisic and his deputy, Franko Simatovic.

He said the court found the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the two men, both former allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, had "planned or ordered" the crimes charged in their indictments.

Judges also said there was insufficient evidence to show they helped soldiers commit war crimes.

The May 30 verdicts come three months after appeals judges at the UN tribunal acquitted the former chief of staff of the Yugoslav national army, Momcilo Perisic, of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs in Bosnia.

Based on reporting by Reuters, AP, and AFP

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/hague-serbia-stanisic-acquit-war-crimes/25002330.html

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