NGO: Serbia vindicating criminals

Women in Black say the Serbian state is resuming the practice of denying state organized crime, and even vindicates criminals. The NGO made the comments following the Serbian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the appeals of two members of the Scorpions paramilitary formation that operated as a Serbian MUP unit for crimes committed in Trnovo in July 1995, when six civilians from Srebrenica were murdered. NGO: Serbia vindicating criminals Defendant Branislav Medic’s sentence was reduced from 20 to 15 years, while a retrial was ordered in the case of Aleksandar Medic, who was originally sentenced to five years in prison. “By issuing these verdicts, Constitutional Court President Vida Petrovic Skero has played her part in further humiliating the victims and their families. Not content with murdering them, the Serbian state continues to insult their memories and further humiliate the families of the survivors. The women of Srebrenica are having to go through their pain again, losing all faith in the possibility of justice being done,” reads a statement from the NGO. “Vehemently condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling, we call on the Serbian state to recall the verdict of the International Court of Justice where for the first time in the history of UN’s court of highest instance, a country was found guilty of contravening the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” the statement concludes.

NGO: Serbia vindicating criminals

Defendant Branislav Medić’s sentence was reduced from 20 to 15 years, while a retrial was ordered in the case of Aleksandar Medić, who was originally sentenced to five years in prison.

“By issuing these verdicts, Constitutional Court President Vida Petrović Škero has played her part in further humiliating the victims and their families. Not content with murdering them, the Serbian state continues to insult their memories and further humiliate the families of the survivors. The women of Srebrenica are having to go through their pain again, losing all faith in the possibility of justice being done,” reads a statement from the NGO.

“Vehemently condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling, we call on the Serbian state to recall the verdict of the International Court of Justice where for the first time in the history of UN’s court of highest instance, a country was found guilty of contravening the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” the statement concludes.