Džana Brkanić, Author at Detektor

A prosecution witness at the trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica said he watched the defendant open fire at around ten Roma civilians in the village of Volarici in 1992. A protected prosecution witness codenamed S-3 told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he saw Boro Milojica, who is on trial over the killings of Bosniak, Croat and Roma civilians, open fire at the Roma villagers in Volarici.

At events to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia sought to raise awareness that 12,000 people are still missing from the 1990s wars.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic urged the UN to allow Serbian citizens convicted of war crimes to serve their sentences in their home country, although this request was not granted when he asked in 2013. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday to enable Serbian citizens who have been convicted by the Hague Tribunal to serve their sentences in Serbia, because of alleged “inhumane conditions” in countries where they are being placed.

Jasmin Causevic was 13 when he found himself in front of a Bosnian Serb firing squad - and despite being seriously wounded, he survived by hiding out in a basement for days.

Poison gas and other toxic chemicals were used dozens of times during the Bosnian conflict to torture and murder prisoners, but almost no one has been held directly responsible in court.

The state court rejected prosecution charges against four members of the Bosnian Serb Referendum Commission for failing to implement a Constitutional Court decision banning a controversial vote on the Day of Republika Srpska.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Almaz Nezirovic, convicted of war crimes against Serb civilians who were abused in a detention camp in Derventa in 1992, had his jail sentence increased to six years.

Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Sasa Cvetkovic went on trial for war crimes against Roma and Bosniak civilians in 1992, including the murder of an elderly woman and the rape of a teenager.

Twenty-two years after the Srebrenica massacres, direct perpetrators of mass killings of Bosniaks at several lesser-known execution sites have still not been charged or put on trial.

Former Croatian Defence Council military policemen Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic were jailed for a total of two and a half years for abusing civilian detainees in the Bosnian town of Livno during wartime.

Džana Brkanić

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