"A Bosnian appeals court acquitted a Serb wartime commander of Srebrenica genocide charges on Wednesday, quashing an earlier 40-year prison term on grounds of insufficient evidence."The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been hunting down the people connected to the Srebrenica massacre for years, and continues to do so today. This article is from May 2010. The aforementioned Serb commander, named Milos Stupar, was definitely in charge of the Bosnian Serb unit responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, but was acquitted because nobody could prove that he was directly involved in the killings or that he ordered the unit to kill. The article goes on to say that Stupar replaced the previous commander of the unit a day after the orders were given to the unit to kill. On these grounds, Stupar demanded acquital and has gained it.
This event shows that the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995 still has far-reaching effects. Whether or not the Tribunal will succeed in bringing all war criminals from Srebrenica to account remains to be seen.
Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/05/us-bosnia-srebrenica-verdict-idUSTRE6443F320100505
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