Twenty-four years have passed without any prosecutions for the ambush of the ‘Tuzla Convoy of Salvation’, when seven Bosniak truck drivers and several passengers were killed by Croat forces.
A commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo was held outside the capital after Serb officials complained of inadequate security and refusals to allow them a permanent memorial.
In the past two years, six war crimes verdicts ordered compensation payments to victims but none of them received the money, so the state must intervene to help, legal experts said.
People in Tuzla commemorated the 21st anniversary of a Bosnian Serb attack that killed 71 and injured 120, while the commander convicted of ordering the strike continued to contest the verdict.
Testifying for the cantonal prosecution of Tuzla, a witness said members of the Bosnian Serb Army attacked the village of Jelovo Brdo in the municipality of Kalesija in June 1992 and shot at the Bosniak population.
A court-ordered neuropsychiatrist testifying at the Muradif Salkic trial said injured party Nedjeljko Stankovic suffered serious psychological anguish in the Kozlovac prison in 1992.
A court-ordered neuropsychiatrist testifying at the Nijaz Talovic and Enes Tursunovic trial said the injured party in the case had suffered severe psychological harm.
A court medical expert testifying at the trial of Nijaz Talovic and Enes Tursunovic, charged with war crimes in Zivinice, described injuries inflicted upon injured party Milivoje Prodanovic’s head and back. Court medical expert Vedo Tuco said Prodanovic was injured with a solid object.
None of the three prosecution witnesses expected to testify at today’s hearing of the Muradif Salkic trial appeared before the cantonal court of Tuzla.