23. January 2023.
Ahead of the appeal in the Hague court’s trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the widow of a man killed by Serb fighters operating in Bosnia in 1995 said she wants to see justice done.
Haris Rovčanin
29. December 2022.
Six former guards were charged with committing a crime against humanity against illegally-detained prisoners at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska camps in the Prijedor area during wartime.
28. December 2022.
In 2022, the Bosnian prosecution charged 60 people with war crimes, although ten of them are outside the country so can’t be brought to trial – a problem that the new chief prosecutor has promised to tackle.
21. October 2022.
Seven former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers were sentenced to a total of 91 years in prison for their role in abducting 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia in February 1993 and then killing them.
20. October 2022.
Ratko Djurkovic, wartime commander of the First Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s First Majevica Brigade, was acquitted of failing to prevent six killings in a village near Teocak in 1992.
29. August 2022.
The state court confirmed former Bosnian Serb soldier Cvijan Tomanic’s seven-year sentence for his involvement in beating and killing one Bosniak civilian and assaulting others in the Zvornik area in 1992.
5. August 2022.
On July 10, 1992 in Biljani, which is several kilometres from Kljuc, Bosnian Serb Army soldiers and police took men from their houses and killed more than 200 local residents in one day. The bodies of those who had been killed were found and exhumed from two mass graves right after the war. But locals are still resentful because the judiciary, the Bosnian prosecution in particular, hasn’t prosecuted those responsible even though 30 years have passed since this major crime. Families of victims told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina what happened that day in July 1992, talking about how men were taken away to the local school and their memories of their last encounters with them.
2. August 2022.
The prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav military prisoners in 1992.
28. July 2022.
The Bosnian state court confirmed former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac’s seven-year prison sentence for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik municipality during the war in 1992.
14. July 2022.
The acquittal of ex-fighters Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza, who were cleared of the wartime killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers in Trnovo near Sarajevo, was upheld on appeal.
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