Zoran Malinic is accused of assisting in the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 when he was the commander of a Bosnian Serb Army military police battalion.
The government offered payments to soldiers from the Dutch UN battalion that failed to prevent the massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995, in recognition of the “exceptional circumstances” in which they had to serve.
The retrial of Aleksandar Radic, who is accused of firing a rocket-propelled grenade at a business centre in Banja Luka, is due to start soon after the original
verdict convicting him was quashed.
An exhumation in the grounds of a major hospital in the Bosnian capital unearthed fragments of bones, shoes and a wristwatch that are believed to have belonged to a victim of the 1992-95 war.
The Supreme Court in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity has yet to hold a session to discuss the prosecution’s appeal against the verdict acquitting Milan Macura of terrorism for allegedly appealing online for people to give him explosives.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of the self-proclaimed, Serb-run Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has again asked for early release after his previous request was rejected because of the seriousness of his crimes.
Belgrade Higher Court agreed that a Bosnian Serb ex-policeman accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 can no longer stand trial alongside his seven co-defendants because of his mental health problems.
The former chief of the general staff of the Yugoslav Army, Momcilo Perisic, was convicted of espionage for handing military document to a US diplomat in 2002 and sentenced to three years in prison.
Husein Mujanovic, who was sentenced to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime, appealed for an acquittal or a retrial.
The top international authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a three-month deadline for the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska to annul honours given to Radovan Karadzic and others convicted of war crimes.