Sentence Against Vukovic Reduced to 20 Years

The decision was made after the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina partially repealed a previous second instance verdict against Vukovic in October 2015, due to the incorrect application of criminal law.

The state court’s appeals chamber then renewed a portion of the trial referring to the application of the law and sentenced Vukovic in accordance with the criminal code of the former Yugoslavia, which prescribes a maximum sentence of 20 years.

Under a second instance verdict handed down by the state court in 2012, Vukovic was found guilty of having participated in the execution of more than 1,000 Bosniak captives in Kravica in July 1995.

He was sentenced as a former member of the Second Squad of Republika Srpska special police from Sekovici.