26. August 2020.
Prosecutors appealed to the UN court to convict former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of committing genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1995 as well as the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.
Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija
24. July 2020.
Ibro Merkez, a wartime police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, was found not guilty on appeal of the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilian prisoners in 1992.
22. July 2020.
Bosnia inaugurated its first state prison, which will accommodate war criminals and organised crime convicts, after more than a decade of delays in the construction of the 40-million-euro, European-standard penitentiary.
20. July 2020.
Released war criminal Zdravko Mucic, the commander of a prison camp who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal over the deaths, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb inmates, drowned after having a stroke.
20. July 2020.
Six people’s remains were buried at the annual ceremony for recently-exhumed war victims at the Kamicani Memorial Centre near Prijedor, but the event was scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
10. July 2020.
The beginning of the trial of Milarem Berbic, who is accused of joining paramilitary groups and fighting in Syria, has been postponed because the defendant refused to have his temperature taken at the state court’s detention unit before he could enter the courtroom.
11. June 2020.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment charging Muharem Dunic with fighting in Syria and Iraq in 2014 as a member of paramilitary groups that operated as part of the so-called Islamic State.
10. June 2020.
The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said that an exhumation near Bratunac has uncovered the partial remains of two people that it believes were killed during the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.
10. June 2020.
Former fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US, went on trial for detaining, assaulting and killing Bosniak civilians who were taken from their village and held in captivity in Bratunac in May 1992.
5. June 2020.
Trials with large numbers of defendants cannot resume because of the problem of safe social distancing at the Bosnian state court, which will further slow the process of dealing with the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.
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