The Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment against Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric, charging them with war crimes against Serb civilians in the Gorazde area.
Witnesses testifying in defense of Miroslav Duka said they lived and worked in Bileca in 1992 and weren’t discriminated or mistreated by Serb police forces due to their ethnicity.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against seven suspects, charging them with crimes against Bosniak civilians in the Sanski Most area in 1992.
Former Croatian Defence Council military police commander Zlatan Mijo Jelic was charged with responsibilty for the ethnic cleansing, illegal detention, abuse and torture of Bosniaks in Mostar in 1993-94.
Former commander Ahmet Sejdic was charged with crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war, including illegal detention and torture, in the municipalities of Rudo, Visegrad and Gorazde.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces charged with genocide in Srebrenica, former police officers said they saw Bosniak civilians emerging from a forested area towards a road in the Sandici area in July 1995.
The prosecution charged three former policemen with involvement in the illegal detention and inhumane treatment of over 100 Serb civilians in Gorazde during wartime, some of whom died.
Experts for the defense of Goran Vujovic, a former public safety commander accused abusing Bosnian and Croatian civilians, contended that electrical shocks from specially rigged phones would not have been able to cause serious injuries or death.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the Mirko Vrucinic trial said police forces transferred him and other prisoners from Sanski Most to Manjaca by truck in July 1992. Nineteen detainees suffocated to death on the journey.
The defense of Mustafa Djelilovic, a former Bosniak fighter charged with prisoner abuse in Hadzici, presented material evidence on official military and police functions and problems related to prisoner exchanges.