“The prosecutor’s office has asked permission to question Ratko Mladic about crimes committed by Bosnian muslim forces controlled by Naser Oric against Serb civilians and prisoners in eastern Bosnia between April 1992 and June 1995,” a statement from the prosecution said yesterday.
The Serbian prosecutors say the incidents they want to question Mladic about were not included in the indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against Oric, the former commander of the Bosnian muslim forces in Srebrenica.
Oric, initially convicted in 2006 and sentenced to two years in prison for not doing enough to prevent crimes committed by his subordinates against Serbs, was acquitted on all charges on appeal in 2008. — AFP
