22. March 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has asked for temporary release from detention in The Hague to go for treatment in Russia because of a “potentially life-threatening condition”.
Erna Mačkić
21. March 2017.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of interior ministry police units in Sarajevo, and Jusuf Pusina, a former Bosnian interior ministry official, went on trial over the killing of eight prisoners of war in 1992.
The trial of Dragan Vikic, Jusuf Pusina and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, who are all accused of crimes against prisoners of war, began at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
17. March 2017.
In the appeals hearings that start on Monday, defence lawyers for the six former high-ranking officials of the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosna will try to prove that the men were not involved in any joint criminal enterprise with the political and military leadership of Croatia.
16. March 2017.
Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to reject a prosecution appeal to increase his sentence to life imprisonment and find him guilty of genocide in seven more Bosnian municipalities in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday, asking the UN war crimes court to throw out the prosecutors’ appeal.
13. March 2017.
At the trial of eight Serb ex-soldiers and police officers for an attack on Bosniak civilians in Lokanj near Zvornik in 1992, a prosecution witness said a police colleague told him local residents killed the victims. Prosecution witness Raco Jovanovic, a former policeman with the Interventions Unit of the Public Security Station in Ugljevik, […]
10. March 2017.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Edin Sakoc was sentenced to seven years in prison for participating in the murder of two Serb civilians in Pocitelj in the Capljina municipality in 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday convicted ex-fighter Edin Sakoc of involvement in the two Serb civilians’ murders in Pocitelj during wartime […]
6. March 2017.
A prosecution witness claimed that military policeman Mehmed Alesevic, who is on trial for war crimes, was present while other soldiers beat him up at a motel in Buzim in 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Mehmed Alesevic at the state court on Monday, prosecution witness Safet Dzaferovic said that the defendant was there when he was beaten, although he did not participate in the assault.
28. February 2017.
Two former reservist policemen and a Bosnian Serb Army ex-serviceman were charged with involvement in capturing and killing Bosniak civilians in the Rogatica area in 1992 and 1993.
The Bosnian prosecution issued an indictment on Tuesday charging Dragan Lubarda and Ozren Planojevic, both former members of the reservist police force in Rogatica, and Zdravko Lubarda, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier, with crimes against humanity.
27. February 2017.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units in besieged Sarajevo, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units, former interior ministry chief Jusuf Pusina, and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, all pleaded not guilty to war crimes at the state court in Sarajevo on Monday.
10. February 2017.
The former chief of security at the main headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ljubisa Beara, has died in a German prison where he was serving a life term for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
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