Appeals chamber of international criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia overturns 2013 acquittal and lowers benchmark for convictionAn appeals chamber at The Hague war crimes tribunal has ordered two Serbian former security officials to be detained and retried,after overturning their 2013 acquittal for allegedly helping to orchestrate genocide.
The ruling, the latest in a string of reversals by the international criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and addresses the question of Serbian government complicity in mass killings carried out by Serb paramilitary groups in Croatia and Bosnia between 1991 to 1995. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com