The international court in The Hague has rejected a request from former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric’s lawyers to order the Sarajevo judiciary to halt war crimes proceedings against him.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against Sasa Savinovic, charging him with participating in war crimes against Bosniak civilians in the Mostar area in 1993.
Bakir Alispahic, the former head of the Sarajevo public safety center, testified at the trial of eight former members of Bosnian military and police forces charged with war crimes in Hadzici.
Former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric’s trial will only begin after the UN court in The Hague decides whether the case should be dropped because he has already been acquitted of the charges.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency has arrested former Bosnian Serb fighter Radenko Ilic on suspicion of having participated in war crimes in Rudo, near Rogatica.
The defense teams of Veselko and Ivo Raguz, found guilty of war crimes in Capljina, presented their appeals at the Bosnian state court. The defense teams said the verdict was unlawful and called upon the court to acquit their clients.
The state court fears that a new Bosnian Serb reform proposal is aimed at abolishing the state-level judiciary, but Republika Srpska says it just wants to clarify the division of authority between the state and Bosnia’s entities.
Lawyers for former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric asked the Hague Tribunal to order Bosnia to halt war crimes proceedings against him because he has already been acquitted of the charges.
Two protected state prosecution witnesses testifying at the Jovan Popovic trial said they saw the defendant in 1992 while men were being taken away from the village of Rodica Brdo near Visegrad.