Ex-soldier Ilija Vukasinovic is suing Bosnia and Herzegovina for the mental distress he allegedly suffered during 199 days of house arrest before he was cleared of committing crimes against humanity in Rogatica.
Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted of crimes against humanity as prosecutors failed to prove he allowed his subordinates to use prisoners as forced labour and human shields in Mostar.
The trial of Zulfikar Alispago, former commander of the Bosnian Army’s ‘Zulfikar Squad’, accused of responsibility for civilian deaths during a 1993 attack on the village of Trusina, resumed after doctors deemed him fit to attend.
Atif Dudakovic, former commander of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, was arrested on suspicion of war crimes against Serbs and Bosniaks in 1994 and 1995.
Former general Atif Dudakovic, along with 11 other officers and soldiers of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of having committed war crimes against Serbs and Bosniaks in 1994 and 1995.
Testifying at the rape trial of former Bosnian Serb serviceman Milomir Davidovic, the first witness described how a soldier sexually assaulted her while she was a captive in Foca in 1992.
Protected witness S-1, who testified with her face and voice disguised, told Milomir Davidovic’s trial at the Bosnian state court on Thursday how she was raped in an apartment in the south-eastern town of Foca in July 1992.
Former Bosnian Croat policeman Miroslav Peric was sentenced to one year in prison for inhumanely treating an underage prisoner of war at the Vojno detention camp near Mostar in 1993.
The Bosnian state court found Miroslav Peric guilty on Tuesday of physically mistreating the boy, who was a prisoner of war at the Vojno camp near Mostar, in October 1993.
An ex-member of the ‘Scorpions’ paramilitaries told the Hague Tribunal that his unit and the ‘Tigers’ led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, were under the control of the Serbian security service in the Bosnian and Croatian wars.
Three former Bosnian Army servicemen were sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison for crimes against Croat civilian detainees who were held at a school near Mostar in 1993.
The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday sentenced Enes Curic to five years in prison and Ibrahim Demirovic to ten years for taking part in the illegal detention and inhumane treatment of Bosnian Croat civilians in Bijelo Polje, as well as making them do forced labour, while Habib Copelj was sentenced to two years for abusing the detained civilians.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Vuk Ratkovic was accused of torturing, abusing, raping and beating a victim on several occasions in the Visegrad area from 1992 to 1993.
The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday charged former soldier Vuk Ratkovic with crimes against the civilian population in Visegrad from June 1992 to the end of the first half of January 1993.
The 25th anniversary of the beginning of the release of detainees from the notorious Omarska detention camp, run by Bosnian Serb forces in Prijedor, will be marked this weekend.