Bosnian Serb Soldiers War Rape Sentence Reduced

Former soldier Miodrag Markovic, who was convicted of raping an under-age girl near Doboj during wartime, had his sentence reduced from seven to six years on appeal.

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Denis Džidić

28. april 2015. | 00:00

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The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Tuesday gave Markovic a reduced sentence after the wrong criminal code was used at his original trial.

Markovic was found guilty of taking an under-age female from her home in Dragalovci near Doboj, raping her and ordering her not to tell anyone.

He was originally convicted in 2011, but the verdict was overturned after the constitutional court ruled in March this year that the wrong criminal code was used in his trial.

The court had used the stricter criminal code of Bosnia and Herzegovina instead of the more lenient code of the former Yugoslavia, which was in force at the time the crime was committed.

More than 20 war crimes cases have been sent back to retrial because of similar incorrect usage of the Bosnian criminal code.

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