Srđan Kureljušić, Author at Detektor

Two former Croatian Defence Council members were jailed in separate cases for raping women in the Orasje and Odzak areas during the war in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday sentenced former Croatian Defence Council military policeman Mato Baotic to ten years in prison for raping three women and mistreating a detainee in the Orasje area in 1992.

Dragoje Zmijanjac was sentenced to six years in prison for committing crimes against civilians, convicted of murdering a Bosniak man in Prijedor in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Monday found Dragoje Zmijanjac guilty of taking Bosniak civilian Halil Dedic from his house in Prijedor in July 1992 and shooting him dead.

Five people who were convicted of war crimes, corruption, kidnapping and abuse of office have been elected as mayors in municipal polls in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nearly 50 candidates for the positions of mayor or municipality chief in next month’s Bosnian elections have been convicted of, charged with or investigated for organised crime, corruption or war crimes.

Disciplinski tužitelj pokrenuo je istragu protiv glavnog tužioca Tužilaštva BiH Gorana Salihovića zbog sumnji da je zlouporabio položaj.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 1.5-million-strong diaspora is increasingly sending less money back home, but this underused resource could provide the country with expertise as well as investment to boost economic development.

The Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, who is also leader of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, paid an official visit to Kazani, near Sarajevo, to commemorate the Serbs that were killed in the area by a group of Bosnian soldiers during the war.

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons says it has intensified searches, exhumations and identifications of war victims from the Srebrenica, Zvornik and Mostar areas.

Jovan Popovic was cleared of making unlawful arrests and seizing civilians from the village of Rodica Brdo in the Visegrad area with a group of Serb fighters in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo acquitted Popovic on Wednesday of crimes against humanity, ruling that the prosecution had not managed to prove he was guilty or even if he was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army or any paramilitary group at the time.

The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment charging former Bosnian Serb soldier Dragisa Tesic with torturing, beating and abusing Bosniak detainees in the Vlasenica area.

Srđan Kureljušić

Bosnia Jails Two Croat Fighters for Wartime Rape

Bosnian Serb Jailed for Murdering Bosniak in Prijedor

Bosnia Elects War Criminal, Corrupt Officials as Mayors

Bosnian Mayoral Hopefuls Tainted by Crime Claims

Pokrenut postupak protiv Gorana Salihovića

Bosnia’s Diaspora: Untapped Resource for State-Building

Izetbegovic Paid Respect to People Killed at Kazani

Bosnia Steps Up Missing Persons Identifications

Bosnian Serb Acquitted of Crimes against Humanity

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Indicted for Prisoner Abuse

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