Naser Oric

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Naser Orić in front of the ICTY (2008)

Naser Orić (born March 3, 1967 in Potočari , Yugoslavia ) was the military commander of the Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine in the eastern Bosnian city of Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 . In 2006 he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes against Serbian civilians between late 1992 and early 1993 and sentenced to two years in prison . On July 31, 2006, UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte announced that she would appeal against this decision because the verdict was too mild. On July 3, 2008, the Appeals Chamber acquitted him of all charges.

Life

Orić was initially a professional soldier and later a police officer, in 1991/1992 he served as a bodyguard for the then Serbian President Slobodan Milošević . After the outbreak of the Bosnian War , he took command of the Bosnian-Muslim armed forces in the enclave of Srebrenica in 1992 . According to the Hague Public Prosecutor's Office, Orić is said to have ordered or led numerous attacks on at least 50 surrounding Serbian villages before the city was conquered by Serbian troops. Orić was acquitted of all charges brought in 2008.

Trial before the International Criminal Court

On March 28, 2003, the Hague Tribunal brought charges against him. On April 10, 2003, he was arrested by SFOR soldiers in his studio .

The charges against him were:

  • arbitrary destruction of towns and villages or devastation unjustified by military requirements
  • Looting of public or private property
  • multiple murder
  • multiple intentional homicides
  • multiple cruel treatment

When he first appeared in court on April 15, 2003, Naser Orić pleaded "not guilty" on all counts. The trial itself began in October 2004. He has only been found to have two cases of criminal failure to take action against murder and ill-treatment. On June 30, 2006, Orić was sentenced to two years in prison; on the remaining charges he was acquitted. Since his pre-trial detention had been more than two years, the court ordered his immediate release. The Serbian government criticized the sentence and accused the court of applying double standards to the crimes of Serbian and Bosniak defendants.

On appeal , the tribunal found that there was no doubt that serious crimes had been committed against Serbs detained in a police station in Srebrenica between September 1992 and March 1993, but that Orić's responsibility for them had not been proven in the court proceedings.

After the trial

On October 3, 2008, after allegations by a businesswoman from Tuzla, Naser Orić was arrested for allegedly extorting borrowed money and then acquitted of the charges. On June 24, 2009, Orić was sentenced to two years imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons and explosives, but was pardoned by the President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Živko Budimir. An arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued by the Serbian authorities in 2014 was carried out in Geneva in June 2015 . Orić, however, resisted extradition to Serbia. An extradition request was then received from the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was answered positively by the Swiss authorities on the grounds that the alleged crimes were committed there and that Orić is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Criminal proceedings in Bosnia and Herzegovina

On October 9, 2017, Orić was acquitted by a court in Sarajevo on charges of murdering three prisoners of war during the Bosnian War.

Official documents of the ICTY

Web links

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  1. ↑ Pressonline.rs: Naser Orić napisao biografiju od Gazimestana do Haga i nazad. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ The ex-commandant of Srebrenica arrested . In: baz.online (Basler Zeitung), October 4, 2008
  3. ^ Report from the Serbian newspaper Blic
  4. ↑ Der Bund - Bosnian ex-commandant resists extradition. Retrieved June 25, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Bosnian war commander: Oric is extradited to Bosnia - NZZ Switzerland. Retrieved June 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Bosnian ex-commander Naser Oric acquitted. Spiegel online from October 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Oric, Naser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian commander of Srebrenica
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Potočari