14. June 2019.
The sentence handed down to former Croatian Defence Council brigade commander Mensur Djakic for not punishing the killers of three Serb captives in the Brcko District in 1992 was increased on appeal from two to eight years in jail.
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16. May 2019.
Bosniak ex-policeman Kahro Vejzovic was convicted of violently assaulting Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners in the village of Stupari in 1992 and sentenced to six years in prison.
15. May 2019.
In the first five months of this year, the Bosnian state prosecution has filed only four indictments in war crimes cases, raising questions about how it will deal with the country’s huge backlog of unprosecuted offences.
26. April 2019.
Twenty-seven years after Bosnian Serb forces killed 36 Bosniak civilians in the village of Snagovo and then burned their bodies, the victims’ families are still waiting for the perpetrators to be convicted.
1. April 2019.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Alminko Islamovic was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for inhumanely treating and robbing Serb civilians in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Monday found Alminko Islamovic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council’s military police squad, guilty of the inhumane treatment of two Serbs in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992, and of taking their property.
22. March 2019.
Bosnian Serb wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Sasa Cvetkovic guilty in a first-instance verdict of the murder of two elderly Roma civilians in the village of Kolonija, near Srebrenica, and the rape of two women in Bratunac, in June 1992.
5. March 2019.
A Bosnian court reduced the sentence of Jovan Tintor, former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted for the unlawful detentions and abuse of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Vogosca area in 1992.
The second instance chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced Tintor’s sentence from 11 to ten years in prison for war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, BIRN has learned.
26. February 2019.
A year after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s revised draft strategy for war crimes processing was completed, it has not even been considered by the Council of Ministers, raising questions about when the country will finish prosecuting all its remaining cases.
21. February 2019.
The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictment charging Slobodan Curcic with committing a crime against humanity during the war in 1992.
Curcic is accused of shooting dead two Bosniak civilians during an attack on the village of Hum near Foca, according to the prosecution.
8. February 2019.
The verdict acquitting former Croatian Defence Council commander Mile Puljic, who was cleared of crimes against prisoners in Mostar in 1993 and 1994, was quashed and a retrial ordered.
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