The verdict in the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague will be handed down by the end of the month, the UN Security Council was told.
Before this week’s final verdict in Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic’s trial, BIRN a presents a photographic essay showing the places where the crimes in his indictment were committed, accompanied by quotes from key witnesses.
At the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dragan Dopudja, former police employees said that Bosniak prisoners were taken away from a detention facility in Ripac near Bihac in June 1992 and never seen again.
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic defended his decision to return war honours to former general Branimir Glavas, who is being retried for alleged crimes against Serb civilians in the city of Osijek in 1991.
The UN court in The Hague rejected former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s request for the final verdict in his trial to be postponed because one of his lawyers will not be able to attend the hearing.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other wartime crimes, has been transferred to Britain to serve his sentence, his lawyer confirmed.
An unnamed former Bosnian Serb Army company commander was arrested on suspicion of failing to punish his subordinates for killing several Bosniak civilians in the Gradiska area during the war in 1992.
The remains of at least nine suspected Kosovo war victims have been found in a mass grave in an old open-cast mine in Kizevak in south-western Serbia, officials said as the exhumation was completed.
The former Bosnian Serb military chief’s defence asked for the final verdict in his trial to be postponed because one of his lawyers will not be able to attend the hearing at the UN court in The Hague.
Montenegrin human rights activists laid wreaths in front of the police headquarters in the coastal town of Herceg Novi to commemorate the wartime deportation of Bosniak refugees to a Serb-run prison camp.