Albina Sorguč, Author at Detektor

Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Dragan Marinkovic, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in the killings of two Bosniak civilians in 1992. The Bosnian Constitutional Court has dismissed as unfounded Dragan Marinkovic’s appeal against his conviction for committing crimes against humanity in the village of Zutica in the Milici municipality of eastern Bosnia in 1992.

A mass grave is being exhumed in the village of Gradina in the Visegrad municipality that may contain remains of victims of the Srebrenica massacres as well as people killed during wartime in Visegrad.

The remains of some 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres are believed to still lie in hidden graves after their bodies were reburied again and again in attempts to conceal the killings.

Thirty-three more victims of the 1995 mass killings of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces will be buried at the annual commemoration at the Srebrenica memorial centre on July 11. On the 24th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide on July 11, the remains of 33 more people will be buried at a collective funeral at the memorial centre in the village of Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Missing Persons Institute told BIRN.

Defamation lawsuits against journalists are being increasingly used as a censorship tool in Bosnia, experts say, warning that judges’ lack of expertise on defamation laws is leading to bad verdicts.

Bosnian Islamic community leaders said that gravestones have been damaged and Serb nationalist stickers referring to the Srebrenica massacres have been put up at Muslim religious buildings.

Former policeman Dragan Janjic went on trial again for the rape of a woman in Miljevina near Foca in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 after a previous verdict convicting him was quashed.

The Croat member of the tripartite Bosnian state presidency, Zeljko Komsic, described the destruction of a memorial to Croats killed in 1992 in the village of Brisevo, near Prijedor, as “an act of hatred”.

Former fighter Zeljko Novakovic was charged with crimes against humanity for participating in the murders, torture and persecution of Bosniak civilians in the villages of Ekici and Alici in the Bosanski Novi area in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday charged against Zeljko Novakovic with committing crimes against humanity in the villages of Alici and Ekici, where 27 Bosniak civilians were killed on June 22, 1992.

Former Bosnian Army soldier Elfeta Veseli was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing a 12-year-old boy in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in the summer of 1992. This article is also available in: Shqip Македонски Bos/Hrv/Srp The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday found Elfeta Veseli guilty of killing a 12-year-old boy, Slobodan Stojanovic, on an undetermined date in the second half of July or first half of August 1992 in the village of Bajrici-Novo Selo.

Albina Sorguč

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Memorial to Bosnian Croats Killed in Wartime Destroyed

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