Four trials next week

Gojko Jankovic will enter a plea to the new charges raised against him by the prosecution.

Jankovic, who is already on trial for crimes committed in Foca, will reply to the additional indictment filed by the prosecution on July 4.

The new indictment deals with the rape of one more Bosniak woman in Foca in 1992 and 1993.

The prosecution claims that between April 1992 and February 1993 Jankovic, as the leader of a paramilitary group, “ordered,committed, helped or encouraged rape of one woman of Bosniak nationality”.

New witnesses will appear in the already ongoing Jankovic trial on July 18. The prosecution claims that Jankovic commanded a group of soldiers which attacked the civilians who were hiding in the forest, detained at least 30 women and seven men, and murdered all of the men.

The trial of Dragan Damjanovic will continue on July 17 and 18. The former Bosnian Serb soldier is charged with war crimes committed against Bosniaks in Vogosca near Sarajevo.

So far nine prosecution witnesses appeared –all of them former Bosniak detainees from Vogosca. They identified Damjanovic and connected him to the murders and torture of civilians in this Sarajevo municipality during the war.

The prosecution will continue presenting its evidence in the Kravica case on July 20 and 21. Eleven Bosnian Serbs are on trial for genocide and other crimes committed in Kravica village near Srebrenica.

The prosecution is trying to prove that all of the accused took part in the massacre of about 1000 Bosniaks in the village farm in July 1995.

The trial of Radovan Stankovic will continue behind the closed doors next week. Stankovic is charged with crimes against humanity committed against Bosniaks in Foca.

The prosecution holds the former Bosnian Serb soldiers responsible for enslavement, unlawful detention, torture, rape and other forms of heavy sexual violence in the eastern Bosnian town.

The whole trial has been closed to public.