Serb Acquitted of War Crimes
A Bosnian Serb accused of murder and torture at wartime detention camps was acquitted Friday by a military tribunal and awarded $68,500 from the state in damages.
The court ordered Goran Grabez, 32, of Prijedor to be freed immediately and compensated him for his period in custody.
The ruling said the prosecutor failed to prove that Grabez served in July 1992 in the Serb-run camps in northwestern Bosnia where he was alleged to have beaten and killed Muslim prisoners.
Testimony from witnesses was too imprecise, the court found.
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