Prosecution challenges Scorpions ruling

The War Crimes Prosecution has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging the rulings delivered in the Scorpions case.

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Tuesday, 18.09.2007.

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The War Crimes Prosecution has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging the rulings delivered in the Scorpions case. The Prosecution office said on Monday it was dissatisfied with the War Crimes Trial Chamber ruling in the trial of members of the Scorpions paramilitary unit who were accused and convicted of the murders of six Muslim civilians from Srebrenica, in the village of Trnovo, Bosnia, in 1995. Prosecution challenges Scorpions ruling Prosecutors said Serbia's war crimes court should have taken more notice of the testimonies of the aggrieved than of the accused, adding that the court failed to take into account the ages of the victims, who were between 16 and 25 years old. On April 10, the Chamber sentenced the Unit’s Commander Slobodan Medic and the man who drove the victims to the place of execution, Branislav Medic, to maximum 20 years in prison. The prosecution did not appeal their sentences. “The Prosecution is against the acquittal of Aleksandar Vukov, and opposes light sentences delivered to Pero Petrasevic, who pleaded guilty to the charges and received 13 years, Aleksandar Medic, who got five years.,” the statement said. The Prosecution also found fault with the manner in which the court regarded the Srebrenica crime. The dispatch containing the elaboration of the rulings spanning 120 pages has been delivered on September 13. The war crime in question was recorded on a tape first played during the war crimes trial of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague. Apparently filmed by a Scorpion who never believed the footage would become public, it shows men in camouflage uniforms wearing red berets emblazoned with the Serbian flag taking the six prisoners from a truck with their hands tied behind their backs. Four were then shot in the back, one by one. They slumped into the tall grass, and the two others were ordered to carry the bodies into a barn where they too were killed.

Prosecution challenges Scorpions ruling

Prosecutors said Serbia's war crimes court should have taken more notice of the testimonies of the aggrieved than of the accused, adding that the court failed to take into account the ages of the victims, who were between 16 and 25 years old.

On April 10, the Chamber sentenced the Unit’s Commander Slobodan Medić and the man who drove the victims to the place of execution, Branislav Medić, to maximum 20 years in prison. The prosecution did not appeal their sentences.

“The Prosecution is against the acquittal of Aleksandar Vukov, and opposes light sentences delivered to Pero Petrašević, who pleaded guilty to the charges and received 13 years, Aleksandar Medić, who got five years.,” the statement said.

The Prosecution also found fault with the manner in which the court regarded the Srebrenica crime.

The dispatch containing the elaboration of the rulings spanning 120 pages has been delivered on September 13.

The war crime in question was recorded on a tape first played during the war crimes trial of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milošević in the Hague.

Apparently filmed by a Scorpion who never believed the footage would become public, it shows men in camouflage uniforms wearing red berets emblazoned with the Serbian flag taking the six prisoners from a truck with their hands tied behind their backs.

Four were then shot in the back, one by one. They slumped into the tall grass, and the two others were ordered to carry the bodies into a barn where they too were killed.

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