You searched for sakib+mahmuljin

The state court scheduled the start of the Sakib Mahmuljin trial for Wednesday, March 23. Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, has been charged with crimes in the Vozuca area of the municipality of Zavidovici.

The Bosnian state court has asked Turkey for the extradition of Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, after he failed to appear to serve his eight-year war crimes sentence.

In 2022, the Bosnian prosecution charged 60 people with war crimes, although ten of them are outside the country so can’t be brought to trial – a problem that the new chief prosecutor has promised to tackle.

Families of Bosnian Serb war victims have been appalled to learn that Sakib Mahmuljin is not undergoing a prison sentence for war crimes but is in Turkey receiving medical treatment.

Slika-zaslona-2022-07-04-u-13.52.09-1280x800.png

Public denials of the Srebrenica genocide have decreased significantly in the year since a ban was imposed on denying war crimes and glorifying their perpetrators, although prosecutors have yet to bring anyone to court.

A group of Bosnian Serbs – former wartime detainees and relatives of some of those still missing from the war – protested outside the Bosnian State Court over what they said was a lack of action concerning war crimes committed against Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian prosecution called for a 20-year sentence for Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.

A report funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing in wartime Sarajevo, but its allegations differ from facts established by courts about crimes during the siege.

Sakib Mahmuljin, former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, was sentenced to ten years in prison for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.

Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin, who is on trial for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners, said he was not guilty of the crime.

sakib+mahmuljin

Mahmuljin Trial Begins March 23

Bosnia Seeks Wartime Army Commander’s Extradition from Turkey

Absent War Crime Suspects Pose Problem for Bosnia’s New Prosecutor

War Criminal’s Escape Outrages Bosnian Serb Victims Associations

Bosnia’s Genocide Denial Ban Curbs Violations, But No Prosecutions Yet

Bosnian Serbs Accuse State Court of War Crimes Bias

Court Urged to Jail Bosnian Army Ex-Commander for 20 Years

BIRN Fact-Check: Is the Bosnian Serb Report on the Sarajevo Siege Accurate?

Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Convicted of War Crimes

Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Asks for War Crimes Acquittal

Pratite nas