The state prosecution has called for the repeal of a first instance verdict handed down against Jasmin Coloman, acquitting him of charges of crimes against the Croat population in the Vitez area in 1993.
Defendant Dario Slavuljica, a former member of the Mice paramilitary unit, admitted to shooting prisoners on Mount Borje after he was ordered to do so by Dragan Marjanovic.
After Iulian-Nicolae Vintila’s defense presented its closing arguments, the state court scheduled the verdict in the Vintila and Ramiz Avdovic trial for February 26.
The trial of four former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with crimes in Sanski Most has been postponed due to the absence of one of the defense attorneys.
The trial of Almaz Nezirovic, who is charged with war crimes against Serb civilians in the Derventa and Bosanski Brod area, has begun before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Testifying at the trial of two former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with genocide in Srebrenica, a former state prosecution investigator denied that he frightened or threatened a protected witness in any way while examining him.
Presenting its closing statement, Iulian-Nicolae Vintila’s defense said the state prosecution had not offered any evidence which indicated the defendant was guilty and called for an acquittal. Vintila and the other defendant in the trial, Ramiz Avdovic, have been accused of committing war crimes in Sarajevo.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of four former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with war crimes in Sanski Most said a Bosniak civilian told him about abuse inflicted upon him during wartime.
The first hearing in the trial of eight defendants charged with the torture and abuse of detained civilians and prisoners of war in Buzim has been scheduled for December 22.
Ilija Pavic, a former fighter with the Croatian Defence Council, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for killing the Serb civilian during a raid in the western town of Livno in 1992.