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SARAJEVO, February 16 (FENA) - The association "Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves" stated that they feel indignant with the acquittal of Goran Sarić.
They received the news with great sadness and revolt. There is no justice, and the only thing left is to ask the God for the damnation of the perpetrators and all those who protect them from being convicted.
“Let God's justice be upon them for killing our children. I do not know what else is there to be said,” Kada Hotić, a mother and a member of the association, said in a statement to FENA.
The Court of BiH in Sarajevo on Friday cleared Goran Sarić, a former commander of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry’s special police brigade, of involvement in genocide in July 1995.
“On the basis of pieces of evidence presented, the court has not been able to determine, beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant knew about the genocidal intention of the main perpetrators,” said presiding judge Staniša Gluhajić.
The judge also said it was not apparent from the evidence that Sarić had interacted with the participants in the joint criminal enterprise aimed at expelling and killing Bosniaks from Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb military and political leaders Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić.
Sarić was acquitted on charges of issuing instructions for the massacres, and cleared of exercising control over his deputy Ljubomir Borovčanin, who the Hague Tribunal sentenced to 17 years in prison for crimes in Srebrenica.
The court said there was no evidence that Sarić issued any type of orders to Borovčanin or lower-ranking chiefs of the special police brigade.
(FENA) S. R.
