Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač - Appeal Judgement, 16 November 2012

The five judges in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Chamber rendered the final judgment today in the Gotovina and Markac case, voting three to two to quash the Trial Chamber’s verdict on unlawful artillery attacks on the Krajina towns as the main cause of the deportation of the Serb civilians during and after Operation Storm, concluding that the joint criminal enterprise to permanently remove Serbs from Krajina did not exist

Judges Theodor Meron, Patrick Robinson and Mehmet Guney decided to quash the findings of the trial judgment that there was a joint criminal enterprise whose aim was to permanently remove Serb civilians from Krajina during and after Operation Storm in the summer of 1995; the remaining two judges in the Appeals Chamber, Fausto Pocar and Carmel Agius, dissented. The judges from the USA, Jamaica and Turkey found themselves at odds with their colleagues from Italy and Malta and acquitted the two accused on all counts in the indictment.

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