Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council has elected Gordana Tadic as the new chief state prosecutor, making her the first woman in the country’s history to hold the position.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sasa Perkovic, who was acquitted of expulsions, killings and lootings in Rogatica, is suing the state because he was kept under house arrest for more than 800 days during the proceedings.
Former fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted on appeal of killing five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday found Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic not guilty of war crimes.
The state prosecution ordered the reopening of an investigation into suspects accused of involvement in the May 1992 attack on a Yugoslav People’s Army convoy that was withdrawing from Sarajevo.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Cvijan Tomanic and Sreco Kandic are accused of committing violent crimes against Bosniaks and ethnic Albanians in the village of Glumina, near Zvornik, in 1992.
Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Cvijan Tomanic and Sreco Kandic in Zvornik on Tuesday for alleged wartime crimes against Bosniak and ethnic Albanian civilians.
The Bosnian court sentenced former Federation entity MP and agriculture minister Jerko Ivankovic Lijanovic to 12 years in prison for organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud.
A former Bosnian Serb army commander, Marko Milosevic – who in January was acquitted of all charges related to the Srebrenica genocide – is demanding compensation for the time he spent in custody and for damage to his health.
The Bosnian prosecution charged ex-fighter Goran Mojovic with carrying out the demolition of the 16th Century Aladza mosque in Foca in August 1992.
The prosecution on Monday charged Goran Mojovic with having participated in planting explosives and causing a blast that completely destroyed the Aladza mosque in Foca on August 2, 1992.
Atif Dudakovic, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, was charged alongside 16 subordinates with crimes including over 300 murders and the destruction of Serb Orthodox churches. The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Atif Dudakovic and 16 lower-ranking members of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps with the murders of more than 300 […]
Some candidates running for this weekend’s general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been accused of glorifying criminals by praising wartime leaders like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic during their campaigns.