Naser Orić

Naser Orić
At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2008
Born	(1967-03-03) 3 March 1967 (age 50) Srebrenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Allegiance	Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Years of service	1992–95
Rank	Brigadier
Unit	28th Division (2nd Corps)
Commands held	Commander in Srebrenica
Battles/wars	Bosnian War

Naser Orić (born 3 March 1967) is a former Bosnian military officer who commanded Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) forces in the Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, during the Bosnian War.

In 2006, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Netherlands for failing to prevent the deaths of five Bosnian Serb detainees and the mistreatment of eleven other detainees from late 1992 to early 1993 on the basis of superior criminal responsibility.

He was acquitted on other charges of wanton destruction and causing damage to civilian infrastructure beyond the realm of military necessity. On 3 July 2008, the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY reversed the Trial Chamber's conviction and acquitted Orić of all charges brought against him.

Naser Orić was born on 3 March 1967 in Donji Potočari, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the town of Srebrenica. His grandfather had fought with the Ustaše, a Croatian fascist, ultranationalist movement, during World War II. Orić was left jobless in his youth despite graduating from high school with a metalworking certificate.

Orić was conscripted into the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in 1985/1986, where he served in a special unit for atomic and chemical defence. He left the JNA with the rank of corporal. In 1988, he completed a six-month training course in Zemun and served in Savski Venac in Belgrade as a trainee policeman. As a member of the police unit for special actions, he had courses for two more years.