Oh, well, I guess it's okay if THEY do it....

July 1, 2006
World Briefing | Europe
The Hague: Muslim Freed After Conviction
By MARLISE SIMONS
The International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced Naser Oric, the wartime commander of the Muslim force at Srebrenica, to two years imprisonment for failing to prevent the cruel treatment and killing of Serbian prisoners during Bosnia's 1992-95 civil war. He was immediately released because he had already spent three years in detention. Prosecutors had asked for an 18-year sentence, for the looting and burning of Serb villages by the poorly trained volunteer force under his command. But the judges said the "abysmal conditions" of the town — surrounded by Serbian troops and overwhelmed with refugees, many of them starving — had led to a such breakdown of law and order that Mr. Oric, just 25 when he was appointed commander, could not be held accountable for crimes by his irregular defense force. He left the area two months before the infamous Serbian execution of some 8,000 unarmed men and boys in 1995.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/world/europe/01briefs-003.html