Serbs angry after ICTY overturns warlord's conviction - Summary

Belgrade/The Hague - Serbian parties on Thursday reacted angrily to the overturning of the 2006 conviction of a Bosnian Muslim warlord Naser Oric for war crimes against Serbs in the 1992-1995 war. The decision by the Appeals Chamber of The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) followed an appeal by Oric, a former commander of the Bosnian Muslim forces in and around Srebrenica. "It is ... unbelievably scandalous," said Milos Aligrudic, a top official in outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia. "The acquittal of a proven war criminal is scandalous, to say the least," said Suzana Grubjesic of the G17 Plus party, a member of President Boris Tadic's pro-European coalition. A spokesman for Tadic's Democratic Party said the ruling "undermines" the credibility of... [read full story]