A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claimed that Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo during the war and that crimes against them have been ignored.
Former Croatian policeman Mihajlo Hrastov, who was convicted of killing 13 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the town of Karlovac in 1991, said he has been ordered to pay more than 350,000 euros to fund compensation.
Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said he did not deny the suffering of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres but only criticised the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were genocide.
Veljko Papic, a former officer of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, was jailed for two years for crimes against civilians who were forced to do hard labour on the front lines in Sarajevo in 1993 and 1994.
Police arrested an ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship on suspicion of committing war crimes during a massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Izbica in March 1999.
Bosnian police are seeking US citizen Robert Rundo, a founder of an alleged white su-premacist organisation who faces accusations of inciting violence in his home country, after he was reportedly expelled from Serbia.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former policeman Darko Mrdja, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in murders and other crimes against Bosniaks in the Prijedor area in 1992.
The US and British embassies in Podgorica reacted strongly after Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said that the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica had not been proven unequivocally.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Dragan Marjanovic’s appeal against the verdict convicting him of participating in the murders of 28 Bosniaks on Mount Borje near Teslic in 1992.