29. December 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Branislav Gavrilovic was charged with ordering the killing of civilians and abusing Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Ilidza and Hadzici areas in 1992 and 1993.
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29. December 2020.
Terrorism defendant Emir Alisic's lawyer Barkir Hecimovic told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina that his client, who has been charged with joining foreign paramilitary groups, has struck a plea bargain with the Bosnian state prosecution.
28. December 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic and Sasa Boskic’s appeal against their convictions for killing 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Donji Vakuf municipality in 1995 was rejected.
23. December 2020.
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in the country and in neighbouring Serbia.
23. December 2020.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldier Milorad Mrdja against the verdict sentencing him to seven years in prison for raping a minor and other wartime crimes against Bosniaks in the Sanski Most area.
22. December 2020.
Relatives of a group of victims of the Srebrenica genocide whose lives were not saved by Dutch peacekeeping troops in 1995 can file claims for compensation from the Netherlands starting in March, Dutch ministers said.
18. December 2020.
Nine former Bosnian Serb Army personnel were charged with committing a crime against humanity during an attack on the village of Novoseoci in September 1992, when 45 Bosniak civilians were killed.
17. December 2020.
The verdict convicting Enver Buza, the wartime commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, of failing to discipline his troops for the 1993 killing of 27 Croat civilians in the village of Uzdol, was quashed and a retrial ordered.
16. December 2020.
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and Territorial Defence force fighters were arrested for alleged wartime crimes in the Zvornik area from 1992 to 1994, including the killing of around 20 Serbs.
16. December 2020.
Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity, including the murders of Bosniak civilians, in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
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