The Bosnian state court and the Hague Tribunal have sentenced 38 people to a total of 637 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for the atrocities committed 21 years ago against Srebrenica’s Bosniaks.
Despite a court order, former Bosnian Serb fighter Slavko Savic has failed to pay 15,000 euros in compensation to a woman he raped in Vogosca near Sarajevo during wartime.
In order to prevent potential unrest, the trial of a Serb victims’ association leader for inciting hatred by describing the Srebrenica genocide as “God’s justice” will be held behind closed doors.
More than 20 years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tourists visiting Sarajevo are most interested in the city’s siege, the longest in modern history.
Representatives of Bosnian victims' associations have condemned reports that the Hague tribunal is considering temporarily releasing the former Bosnian Serb leader.
Former Bosnian Serb police officer Milisav Ikonic told the state court that he was not guilty of raping women in Rogatica during the war in 1992.
“Your honors, I never raped anyone.
A prosecution witness told the genocide trial of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade commander that he heard that captives from Srebrenica were brought to the Zvornik area and executed.
The Basic Court in the town of Prijedor destroyed an investigation file on the murders of five members of a Croat family during the war, allegedly by Serb forces, because it considered the material “worthless”.
Serb ex-fighter Miodrag Mitrasinovic has been charged with crimes against 20 passengers kidnapped from a train at Strpci railway station in February 1993 and then murdered.