SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's state war crimes court said on Tuesday it had freed 10 convicted war criminals and would give them new trials after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled their legal rights had been violated.
The move, which cast doubt over a series of war crimes convictions in Bosnia, angered survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia's war, for which six of the accused were jailed for genocide for up to 33 years.
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