The Bosnian Federation entity’s Supreme Court upheld a verdict convicting former Bosnian Army deputy battalion commander Hajriz Doglod of torturing and then shooting dead a civilian near Vitez in 1993.
The Bosnian state court has upheld a verdict acquitting five former Bosnian Serb police officers of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995 due to lack of evidence.
As the July 1995 massacre by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned continuing genocide denial and glorification of war criminals.
Relatives of 46 people who disappeared in the Hadzici area after being detained by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 rallied outside the state prosecutor’s office, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Despite shelling and sniper fire, Sarajevo’s sportsmen and women kept on training throughout the 1992-95 siege of the city, and even managed to represent Bosnia at international tournaments.
Former soldiers Dzevad Avdicevic, Ahmed Hadzajlic, Muharem Efendic and Izet Ikanovic have been charged with abusing, beating and killing Bosnian Serb Army prisoners of war in the Teocak area in 1993.
Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested two persons in the area of Zvornik and Rogatica suspected of involvement in war crimes in the Ilijas area during 1992.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested nine persons due to existence of a grounded suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity against Bosniak and Croat victims in the Bosanski Novi area.
Sarajevo will install a memorial to the mostly Serb victims killed in 1992 and 1993 at Kazani in the hills above the city on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade, but without naming the perpetrators.
The defence lawyer for Vukasin Draskovic said he was not guilty of involvement in Bosnian Serb forces’ attack on a column of fleeing Bosniaks, which led to the killings of at least 67 civilians in July 1992.