Denis Džidić, Author at Detektor

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milenko Gojgolovic was charged with raping a Bosniak woman who he took from a detention camp in Vlasenica in July 1992. The state prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment charging Milenko Gojgolovic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, with raping a female prisoner in July 1992.

Prosecutors want the UN court to give former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a life sentence for genocide and other crimes this week - but his defence insists the trial was unfair and the final verdict should acquit him.

Twenty-seven years since the siege of Sarajevo began, a handful of commanders have been tried, but Bosnian prosecutors have not yet filed any indictments against direct perpetrators of sniping and shelling attacks on civilians.

The acquittal of former policeman Kahro Vejzovic, who was cleared of physically assaulting Bosnian Serb civilians in the village of Stupari in 1992, was partially overturned on appeal and a retrial ordered.

The president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals rejected a request from Serbian Radical Party leader Seselj to allow him to appeal against a second-instance verdict convicting him of persecuting Croats in Serbia in 1992. The president of the Hague-based Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Carmel Agius, has rejected a request from Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj to be allowed to file an appeal against the second-instance verdict convicting him of persecuting Croats in the Serbian village of Hrtkovci in 1992.

Former Bosnian Army general Ramiz Drekovic was arrested in Sarajevo on suspicion of committing a war crime by ordering the ‘indiscrimate’ shelling of the Serb-majority town of Kalinovik in 1995. State Investigation and Protection Agency officers arrested former general Ramiz Drekovic on Wednesday on suspicion of committing a war crime against civilians by ordering artillery attacks […]

Former Bosnian Territorial Defence force member Jasmin Erovic was cleared of raping a Serb woman in an apartment in Sarajevo in 1992. The Bosnian state court on Friday acquitted Erovic of taking a woman from a basement where she was being held with other Bosnian Serbs to an abandoned apartment in Sarajevo and raping her.

In this month’s programme, you can watch a documentary titled ‘The Process’, made by journalist and director Aleksandar Reljic from Novi Sad.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to remove another judge from his appeal process for alleged bias, after the presiding judge stepped down from the case last month.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court in The Hague to exclude judge Theodor Meron from his appeal procedure due to alleged bias, after he was removed from Ratko Mladic’s trial.

Denis Džidić

Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Soldier with Rape of Detainee

Karadzic Verdict: Mastermind of Violence or Victim of Injustice?

Episode 102: Sarajevo Siege – How Perpetrators of Deadly Attacks Remain Unprosecuted

Bosnian Court Quashes Assault Acquittal of Bosniak Policeman

Vojislav Seselj’s Plea to Appeal Conviction Rejected Again

Bosnian Army Ex-General Arrested for Shelling Town

Bosniak Ex-Fighter Acquitted of Wartime Rape in Sarajevo

Episode 99: The torture of Bosniaks from Sandzak

Karadzic Demands Removal of Another Trial Judge

Radovan Karadzic Demands Dismissal of Judge for ‘Bias’

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