Warsaw (dpa) – Three Polish soldiers were found innocent of war crimes while another four would be retried for an attack on an Afghan village in which eight civilians were killed, Poland's highest court ruled Wednesday. All seven soldiers had been charged with war crimes in what was called an unprecedented trial. It is the first time Polish soldiers have been accused of violating international war conventions. Three of the soldiers were Wednesday given a final verdict of innocent, while the cases of the other four would return to a court of first instance, the Supreme Court in Warsaw ruled. The soldiers had been acquitted in June for the attack on the village of Nangar Khel, in the south-eastern province of Paktika, on August 16, 2007. The prosecution, in appealing their acquittal, had argued that the court had not considered all the evidence. The soldiers were part of the NATO-led international force in the war-torn country at the time of the attack, in which women and children were among the dead. The incident occurred after the soldiers came under fire from Taliban forces. The soldiers said the civilians were killed by mistake. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/6d79O Tags: Afghanistan, Poland, Soldiers, War Crime Section: Asia, Europe, Latest News
