The appeals court threw out a plea bargain that would have seen a former Bosnian Serb fighter serve 10 to 13 years in jail for killing around 200 civilians at Koricanske Stijene in 1992.
The appeals court threw out a plea bargain that would have seen a former Bosnian Serb fighter serve 10 to 13 years in jail for killing around 200 civilians at Koricanske Stijene in 1992.
Ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic, on trial for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992, testified that he did not rape a Muslim woman but actually protected her from other men.
Testifying in defence of indictee Mirsad Vatrac at the trial for crimes in Kotor-Varos, a witness says that she used to see him in Bilice village in the summer of 1992, but he was neither armed nor uniformed.
At the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes in Visegrad in 1992, a witness said that one defendant hit him and threatened with death while he was imprisoned in a container.
During the continuation of the trial for crimes in Carakovo village, near Prijedor, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina reads statements by four witnesses, who have since died, describing the taking away and killing of their family members in July 1992.
Presenting its appeal against a verdict under which Eso Macic was sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes committed in the Konjic area, the Defence requests the Court to acquit the indictee, while the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina objects, requesting the Court to confirm the verdict.
During the continuation of the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina, a Defence witness says that Kostana Hospital, where men were held in detention, was not in the zone of responsibility of the unit commanded by indictee Veselko Raguz, i.e. the Fourth Battalion with Knez Domagoj Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO.
During the continuation of the trial for crimes in Serdari village a State Prosecution witness says that local village residents did not have arms when they were attacked on September 17, 1992.