Albina Sorguč, Author at Detektor

Defence lawyers for former Bosnian Serb soldiers Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic argued that they should be cleared of responsibility for the killing of 19 Bosniaks, Roma and Croats in villages in the Prijedor area in 1992. The defendants (on the right, first and second rows) with their lawyers in court.

Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from the former deputy commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, Nihad Bojadzic, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killings, rape and abusing Croat prisoners.

Two Bosniak men from Srebrenica shot by the Scorpions paramilitary unit in 1995 - murders that were videotaped by the notorious Serb fighters - have been identified after their remains were exhumed from a mass grave.

State Court agrees reduced sentence for ex-Syria fighter Munib Ahmetspahic who returned disabled, admitted his guilt, cooperated with the prosecution – and insisted he repented of his actions.

A memorial march and ceremony was held to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the massacre of 116 civilians by Croatian Defence Council fighters in the Bosnian village of Ahmici.

The Bosnian state court has confirmed an earlier verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Todovic to ten years in prison for raping and sexually enslaving a Bosniak woman in Foca in 1992 and 1993. The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday confirmed the December 2018 verdict, which found former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Todovic guilty of raping a Bosniak woman in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca during the 1992-5 war and holding her in sexual captivity.

The government of the Sarajevo Canton allocated 358,000 euros in its 2019 budget to provide legal assistance to ex-soldiers and police officers - almost all of them Bosniaks - who have been charged with war crimes, BIRN has learned.

Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Mico Jurisic was convicted of committing crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Prijedor area in 1992 and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Western diplomats and Bosnian legal experts urged prosecutors to investigate the alleged incitement of religious and ethnic hatred at a rally by uniform-clad Serb nationalist Chetnik supporters in the town of Visegrad.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Lazar Mutlak was charged with raping and sexually abusing a Bosniak woman in the Gorazde area in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Monday filed an indictment charging Lazar Mutlak, alias Lazo, with raping a female civilian during the war in Gorazde in eastern Bosnia.

Albina Sorguč

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