Former detainees and relatives of prisoners who were killed at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska detention facility in Prijedor marked the 26th anniversary of the closure of the notorious wartime camp.
A defence lawyer in the case against five former Bosniak soldiers accused of abusing Croat prisoners at a detention facility in the Vitez area in 1993 asked the Bosnian court for an acquittal verdict. In his closing statement to the state court in Sarajevo on Monday, a lawyer for one of the five former Bosnian […]
Slobodan Karagic’s 12-year prison sentence for war crimes against civilians in the Doboj area in 1992, including the rape of minors and the unlawful arrests of Bosniaks, was upheld on appeal.
After a six-year trial, the Bosnian court sentenced eight Bosniaks to a total of 60 years in prison for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilians illegally held in wartime detention camps in Hadzici.
A baby and a woman in her nineties were the youngest and oldest victims of Srebrenica to be buried so far, said Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute as the 23rd anniversary of the mass killings approaches.
Two alleged members of the radical Salafi Islamic movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor, were charged with acquiring weapons to carry out a terror attack.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court will hear an appeal filed by the defence of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Indira Kameric, who was sentenced to four years in prison for crimes against civilian detainees.
Milorad Obradovic, who is accused of taking part in the illegal arrests and torture of 120 Bosniaks in Prijedor in 1992 and personally killing three people, was sent to Bosnia from Germany to stand trial.
Former Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Tomislav Kovac, charged with genocide for controlling police forces involved in the mass executions of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, did not appear in court for his plea hearing.