Week ahead: Three status conferences due
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On Monday, August 25 a status conference is due to take place at the trial of Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic. Medical court experts are due to present their findings and opinions on the first indictee’s health condition and his capability of attending trial.
Kondic suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Several hearings were postponed due to his bad health. The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges the three indictees with having “organised a group of people and abetted them in genocide”, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Kljuc municipality in the course of 1992.
On Tuesday, August 26 a status conference is due to take place before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at which the start date of the trial of Zrinko Pincic will be set. He is charged with crimes against Bosnian Serbs from the Konjic area in 1992 and 1993.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is due to hold a status conference at the trial of Ferid Hodzic on Thursday, August 28. Hodzic is charged with crimes against Bosnian Serbs in ‘Stala’ prison, near Vlasenica, in the course of 1992 and 1993. At the status conference the Court will review available medical reports in order to determine whether the indictee is capable of attending the trial.
The trial of Hodzic has been postponed several times because he had a heart attack on June 8 this year. Following the attack he was admitted to a hospital in Tuzla.
On the first three days next week the State Prosecution continues presenting evidence against Momir Savic and Milko Mucibabic, who are charged with crimes in eastern Herzegovina in 1992.
The trial of Gojko Klickovic, Jovan Ostojic and Mladen Drljaca, who are charged with crimes in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1991 and 1992, is due to continue on Tuesday, August 26 and Wednesday, August 27.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues presenting evidence against Predrag Kujundzic, former commander of the “Predini vukovi” paramilitary unit, who is charged with crimes in Doboj in 1992.
On Tuesday, August 26 and Wednesday, August 27 the Defence of four persons, who are charged with crimes committed in Zvornik in the course of 1992, is due to continue presenting its evidence.
On Monday, August 25 and Friday, August 29 the trial is due to continue in the case of Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic, who are charged with crimes in Vlasenica, as well as the three indictees, charged with crimes against Bosniaks in Kalinovik.
Also on Monday the trials are due to continue before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the case of Momir Savic and Milorad Trbic. Savic is charged with participating in the crimes in Visegrad in 1992, while Trbic is charged with genocide in Srebrenica.
The trials of Miodrag Nikacevic, who is charged with rape and the unlawful detention of Bosniaks in Foca, and Novak Djukic, who is charged with shelling Tuzla in May 1995, are due to take place before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday, August 26.
Nisvet Gasal, Musajb Kukavica, Enes Handzic and Senad Dautovic, who are charged with crimes against Bosnian Croats committed in Bugojno, are due to appear before the State Court on Wednesday, August 27, when the State Prosecution will continue presenting evidence by examining its witnesses.
The Defence of the four indictees, who are charged with crimes committed in Mostar area are due to continue presenting evidence on August 28. On the same day the Prosecution is due to examine three witnesses at the trial of Ante Kovac, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council.
On August 28 the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is due to examine three witnesses at the trial of Suljo Karajic, former member of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, who is charged with having committed war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the wider area around Bihac town.
