Albina Sorguč, Author at Detektor

The acquittal of Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, has been quashed and he will be retried for allegedly killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in 1992. The appeals chamber of Bosnia’s state court has overturned the first-verdict acquitting Naser Oric and his subordinate Sabahudin Muhic and ordered a retrial, the prosecution confirmed to BIRN on Monday.

The government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity has finalised a proposed law to grant rights to wartime torture victims - but campaigners fear it could discriminate against non-Serbs.

Wartime fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted of murdering five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday cleared Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic of the murders of five members of the Ecimovic family, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case.

A review by Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons has found that 2,000 unidentified pieces of human remains - believed to be those of war victims - are still being held in the country’s mortuaries and ossuaries.

The Sarajevo Canton assembly condemned the arrest of 1990s general Atif Dudakovic and other members of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army on suspicion of war crimes.

After beating and raping a woman in Visegrad during wartime in 1992, a Bosnian Serb soldier ordered her to make coffee, then offered her gold as a gift, the victim testified at his trial.

Slobodan Knezevic, suspected of war crimes in the village of Miska Glava, where 120 Bosniak civilians were killed in 1992, was extradited from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former Bosnian Croat fighter Pavo Glavas, who was acquitted of raping two women during wartime, is suing Bosnia and Herzegovina for 75,000 euros because of lost earnings during his detention.

Eleven former members of the Croatian Defence Council will stand trial for crimes against humanity for illegally detaining Bosniaks in inhumane conditions in Mostar in 1993 and 1994. The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictment charging the 11 former Croatian Defence Council members - Nedzad Coric, Jure Kordic, Drazen Lovric, Dario Susac, Nedzad Tinjak, Nuhan Sikalo, Dario Mihalj, Stanko Skobic, Tomislav Ancic, Marinko Sunjic and Slavko Golemac - with crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milomir Davidovic was charged with taking part in the rape and sexual abuse of Bosniak women in Foca in the summer of 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday raised an indictment charging Davidovic with taking part in the rape and sexual abuse of Bosniak women in Foca in July 1992.

Albina Sorguč

Bosnia Overturns Srebrenica Commander Naser Oric’s Acquitta

Bosnian Serbs Finalise War Torture Victims Law

Sarajevo Court Acquits Serbs of Killing Family

Bosnian Mortuaries Hold 2,000 Unidentified War Remains

Sarajevo Canton Condemns Bosnian General’s Arrest

Bosnian Serb Soldier ‘Raped Victim, Then Demanded Coffee’

Bosnian Serb War Suspect Extradited from Montenegro

Acquitted Bosnian Croat Fighter Sues for Damages

Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighters Charged over Mostar Detention Camps

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Charged with Wartime Rape

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