Haris Rovčanin, Author at Detektor

Female ex-fighter Elfeta Veseli and former Bosnian Army unit commander Sakib Halilovic called on the Bosnian court to acquit them of involvement in the killing of a 12-year-old Serb boy in 1992. In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court on Friday, defence lawyers for Sakib Halilovic and Elfeta Veseli urged the court not to convict them of involvement in the killing of the 12-year-old boy in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in the summer of 1992.

Ranko Babic, Bratislav Bilbija and Djuro Adamovic went on trial in Sarajevo, accused of the torture, abuse and murder of Bosniak civilians in the village of Ljeskare near Prijedor in August 1992. The trial of former Bosnian Serb soldiers Ranko Babic, Bratislav Bilbija and Djuro Adamovic began at the Bosnian state court on Monday.

As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches next week, many of the 12 years he spent evading arrest remain shrouded in secrets that the Serbian and Bosnian authorities seem reluctant to probe, and people who helped him remain unprosecuted.

After three ex-members of the ‘Sima’s Chetniks’ paramilitary group had their sentences cut by a Belgrade court, Bosnian war victims’ associations said they welcomed the convictions but wanted the convicted men to reveal the whereabouts of missing persons.

Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic was acquitted of committing crimes against humanity by ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack on the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state court on Wednesday acquitted Slavko Milovanovic, a former member of the reserve police forces at the Public Security Station in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality, of crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milomir Davidovic was sentenced to seven years in prison for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in Foca during the war in July 1992. The Bosnian state court on Wednesday convicted Milomir Davidovic, alias Lici, of forcing a Bosniak woman to have sexual intercourse with him in July 1992.

Bosnia’s Constitutional Court upheld an appeal from Serb ex-policeman Petar Civcic, who spent over 1,000 days in jail before being acquitted of wartime crimes, ruling he should be paid more than the 43,470 euros initially awarded.

In closing statements in the trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Milomir Davidovic, his defence asked for him to be acquitted of the rape and sexual abuse of Bosniak women in Foca in July 1992. Defence lawyer Slavisa Prodanovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Friday that the prosecution had not proved the allegations that ex-serviceman Milomir Davidovic, alias Lici, committed rape in Foca in July 1992.

The retrial of former Bosnian Army soldiers Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic, accused of raping a Serb minor in Sarajevo in May 1993, opened at the Bosnian state court.

Bosnia’s state court has charged Munib Ahmetspahic with joining the Islamist terrorist group Al-Nusra Front – and with participating in combat in Syria from 2013 to 2018. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has charged Munib Ahmetspahic – who was previously acquitted of having a role in the 2011 attack on the US embassy in […]

Haris Rovčanin

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