The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina jailed Zemir Kovacevic for ten years for his role in the murder, mistreatment and robbery of Serb civilians in the Sijekovac area in March-April 1992.
On Wednesday, May 21 the State Court is due to pronounce a verdict against Zemir Kovacevic, who is charged with murders and other crimes committed in Sijekovac, near Bosanski Brod, in 1992.
The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, presents, at a roundtable discussion held in Sarajevo, its work strategy for the next three years within which it plans to continue reporting from all war crime trials in our country and put a special focus on new projects covering crimes of a sexual nature.
The Hague tribunal allowed the Defence of Ratko Mladic to appeal a decision, under which it was found the Prosecution presented sufficient evidence under which it could be concluded that he was guilty of genocide in Srebrenica and seven other municipalities.
U nastavku suðenja za zloèine poèinjene u Viegradu, Sudsko vijeæe je saslualo Ferida Spahiæa, koji je potvrdio da se na tri izjave nalazi njegov potpis.
Twenty-two years after the Bosnian war began, there is still no consensus in the country about its causes, and because of continuing ethnic divisions, there may never be any agreement.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has asked the Hague Tribunal to break up his verdict in two, so that if found guilty, a separate sentencing hearing be scheduled.
Nihad Bojadzic, the former deputy commander of the Bosnian Armys Zulfikar Squad, said that he did not lead a wartime attack on the village of Trusina, where 22 Croats were killed.
The Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court sentenced a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, Drazen Mikulic, to a year-and-a-half in prison for crimes against a Bosniak civilian held in the Dretelj camp, near Capljina, in 1993.