A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of four former Bosnian Croat soldiers said he saw a member of the Croatian Defense Forces (HOS) kill members of a Serb family in Presjenica.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against Izet Arifovic, Suad Smajlovic and Amir Salihovic, on suspicion of having committed war crimes in the Srebrenica area in 1992.
The Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment against Srecko Acimovic, the former commander of the Second Battalion of the Zvornicka Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, charging him with genocide in Srebrenica.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against former police unit commander Slobodan Karagic, also known as Karaga, accusing him of committing crimes against humanity in the Doboj and Teslic area in 1992.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic said her husband went missing after he was detained in a Livno school building used as a detention facility by the defendants in mid-September 1992. She said she found her husband’s remains seven years after the war.
The statements of four deceased witnesses were read at the trial of four former members of the Bosnian Army charged with war crimes in Rogatica. The statements described an attack on a civilian convoy in the village of Kukavice by Bosnian forces.
The trial for crimes committed in Kotor-Varos will re-start before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in late February after several postponements due to illness of defendant Dragoslav Bojic.
On Tuesday, December 29, the trial of eight defendants charged with committing war crimes in the Buzim area from November 1994 to August 1995 will be held at the Bosnian state court.
The state court has transferred the case of Suad Ramic to the cantonal court in Novi Travnik for further processing. Ramic, a former member of the Bosnian Army, has been charged with war crimes in Gornji Vakuf/Uskoplje.