Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija, Author at Detektor

Female ex-soldier Elfeta Veseli and former Bosnian Army unit commander Sakib Halilovic were charged with involvement in the killing of a 12-year old Serb boy in the Zvornik municipality in 1992. The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictments of Elfeta Veseli and Sakib Halilovic, charging them with committing war crimes against the civilian population in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in the summer of 1992.

Cities around Bosnia are commemorating the horrendous crimes committed against the non-Serb population of the northeastern town of Prijedor 25 years ago by putting up white ribbons.

A court in Italy sentenced former Bosnian Army officer Hanefija Prijic to life imprisonment for killing three Italian aid workers - even though he served a sentence for the same crime in Bosnia.

A former Croatian Defence Council fighter was detained in Mostar for alleged wartime crimes against civilians and a former Bosnian Army soldier was held in the capital Sarajevo.

Former reservist police officer Enes Salkic was indicted for the alleged wartime torture, abuse and inhumane treatment of civilians in the town of Velika Kladusa in August 1995. The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Thursday accusing Salkic of committing war crimes against civilians in Velika Kladusa.

Elvir Muminovic was the third former Bosnian Army soldier to be arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting an under-age Serb girl in the Sarajevo area in 1993. The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Thursday that Elvir Muminovic was arrested on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting the Serb girl during the war in 1993.

Eight Bosnian Serbs were arrested in the town of Prijedor for their alleged involvement in detaining, torturing and killing 120 Bosniak men and boys in the country’s north-west in 1992. Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested the eight men on Tuesday morning in Prijedor on war crimes charges.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Dragan Marinkovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in the killings of two civilians in Milici in eastern Bosnia in 1992. The Bosnian state court on Friday convicted Dragan Marinkovic of crimes against humanity for his role in the killings of the two civilians in the village of Zutica in the Milici municipality on May 11, 1992.

The UN war crimes court will sign an agreement on Tuesday to set up an information centre at Sarajevo’s city hall offering access to all public documents from the Hague Tribunal’s trials.

Police arrested former Bosnian Army soldiers Safet Isakovic and Nisvet Poric on suspicion of involvement in the killing of three Serb prisoners of war in Bosanska Krupa in 1995. Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency officers on Wednesday arrested ex-soldiers Isakovic and Poric, who are suspected of crimes against prisoners of war in the Bosanska Krupa area in July 1995.

Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija

Bosnian Ex-Soldiers Charged over Serb Boy’s Murder

Bosnia Honours Prijedor Victims With White Ribbon Day

Italy Jails Bosniak Officer for Aid Workers’ Murders

Bosnia Arrests War Crimes Suspects in Mostar, Sarajevo

Bosnian Ex-Policeman Indicted for Torturing Civilians

Bosnia Arrests Third Ex-Soldier for Sarajevo War Rape

Bosnia Arrests Eight in Prijedor for War Crimes

Bosnian Serb Soldier Jailed for Milici Civilians’ Killings

Hague Tribunal to Open Information Centre in Sarajevo

Bosniak Ex-Soldiers Arrested for Killing Serb Prisoners

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