The UN court in The Hague rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s request to be allowed to file an appeal against the length of his prison sentence for genocide and other wartime crimes.
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches, witnesses who testified against the former Bosnian Serb political leader recall how they felt when they spoke about his alleged crimes to his face in the courtroom.
Prosecutors have launched a case after receiving reports that uniform-clad Serb nationalist Chetnik supporters incited religious and ethnic hatred at a weekend rally in the Bosnian town of Visegrad.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko was acquitted of taking three Bosniak civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in 1992 to do forced labour and then killing one of them.
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Milojko Kovacevic was charged with crimes against humanity for abducting, torturing, beating and abusing Bosniak civilians in the Visegrad area in 1992.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Thursday charging Milojko Kovacevic with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the village of Donje Veletovo in the Visegrad municipality in June 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic, who is appealing against his first-instance conviction for genocide and other crimes, has again complained to the UN court in The Hague that his health is deteriorating.
Jovan Tintor, a former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, appealed against his conviction for the unlawful detentions and abuse of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Vogosca area in 1992.
The defence lawyer for Jovan Tintor, the former president of the wartime Crisis Committee in the municipality of Vogosca, lodged an appeal at the Bosnian state court on Friday against his 11-year prison sentence.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Kolobara is wanted by the Bosnian authorities for crimes against humanity and war crimes against the civilian population.
Interpol has issued a red notice calling for the arrest of Zoran Adamovic, a former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman who is charged with committing crimes against humanity in the Kljuc area in 1992.
Zoran Adamovic, a 55-year-old citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, is wanted by the Sarajevo authorities for crimes against humanity, according to the ‘red notice’ published on the Interpol website requesting his arrest.
In its closing statement, former Serb reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic’s defence called on the court to acquit him of persecuting Bosniak civilians in the Skelani area near Srebrenica in 1992.
Slavko Milovanovic’s defence lawyer asked the Bosnian state court on Wednesday to acquit his client of crimes against Bosniaks in the village of Resagici in the Skelani area during the war in 1992.