Live Blog: Serbian State Security Officials’ Verdict

  • Stanisic, the former head of Serbian State Security, and Simatovic, his former deputy, are being retried for participating in a 'joint criminal enterprise' to remove non-Serbs from areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Both men are accused of organising and financing Serb armed units that committed crimes during the Croatian and Bosnian wars from 1991 to 1995.
  • They were acquitted in their initial trial and pleaded not guilty when their retrial began.
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