Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija, Author at Detektor

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Zoran Adamovic was indicted for crimes against humanity, including the murders and forced disappearances of Bosniaks and Croats, in the Kljuc area in the summer of 1992. The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictment of former soldier Zoran Adamovic for crimes against humanity, charging him with involvement in the persecution of the Bosniaks and Croat civilian in the Kljuc area.

The long-awaited adoption of amendments to Bosnia’s Criminal Procedure Code should improve the country’s record on prosecuting corruption, but not all legal experts are convinced.

Former Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry employee Milisav Ikonic was sentenced to nine years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in the Rogatica area in July 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Former Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry employee Milisav Ikonic guilty of having forcibly taken a woman from the secondary school building in Rogatica in July 1992 to an apartment, where he raped her.

Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992. The Bosnian state court on Monday found Mensur Djakic guilty of having watched a member of the Croatian Defence Council battalion that he commanded murdering three captured Serbs and then failing to take measures to punish the killer.

Prosecutions in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signed protocols to cooperate on war crimes cases five years ago, but few cases have been exchanged due to a lack of political will, leaving dozens of suspects at liberty.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Bosnian Serbs Momir Tasic to 14 years in prison and Petar Tasic to ten years for crimes committed in the town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia in 1992 – while it acquitted Mirko Tasic.

Bosnian state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic said he received death threats from a witness who testified in the war crimes case against the former Bosniak commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric.

Providing accurate and unbiased information is essential when reporting about terrorism and violent extremism, heard a conference organised by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Mount Jahorina from August 31 to September 2, at which BIRN’s regional director was a speaker.

Jovan Tintor, a former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was convicted of being responsible for the unlawful detentions and abuse of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Vogosca area in 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday found Jovan Tintor, the wartime head of the Serb-led Crisis Committee in the Vogosca municipality, guilty of crimes against Bosniak and Croat detainees and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj asked the UN court in The Hague to be allowed to appeal against its final verdict sentencing him to ten years in prison for the persecution of Croats.

Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija

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Bosnia Court Sentences Two Serbs for Visegrad Crimes

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Seselj Asks to Appeal War Crimes Conviction

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