Erna Mačkić, Author at Detektor

After criticism from Bosnian Serbs for alleged bias after the recent acquittal of Bosniak commander Naser Oric, the state court said it has also cleared 60 former Serb soldiers, police, officials and camp guards.

Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic asked the judges at the Hague Tribunal to provide him with a laptop, saying that using a desktop computer has caused him back pain.

The trial of Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica who is accused of killing Serb prisoners of war, centred on a key witness’s testimony - but was it true or false?

Bosnia has failed to provide justice for thousands of women who were raped during the 1992-95 war and must speed up prosecutions and ensure victims get compensation, a new Amnesty International report said.

The defence lawyer for former Serbian security official Franko Simatovic claimed that the Yugoslav People’s Army led by then colonel Ratko Mladic was responsible for crimes during an attack on a Croatian village in 1991. The defence lawyer for former Serbian security official Franko Simatovic, alas Frenki, who is being retried alongside his former Serbian Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, sought on Wednesday to shift blame for the 1991 crimes onto Ratko Mladic.

The defence lawyer for former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic told the UN war crimes tribunal that rebel Serbs in Croatia mostly got weapons from the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.

Former fighters Senad Dzananovic, Edin Gadzo and Jasmin Erovic went on trial for participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at detaining Serb civilians in the Sarajevo area in 1992 and killing them.

The state appeals court upheld the 13-year sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb military policeman Zeljko Stanarevic for his participation in the killings of at least ten Bosniak civilians in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the conviction of Zeljko Stanarevic for committing crimes against humanity in the Bihac area in the summer of 1992.

Hatred, nationalism and loyalty to Ratko Mladic made Bosnian Serb Army colonel Ljubisa Beara a key organiser of the Srebrenica massacres, says journalist Ivica Djikic, the author of a novel about the recently-deceased convict.