In a retrial before the Belgrade Higher Court, Bosnian Serb soldier Joja Plavanjac was convicted of killing 11 people at a prison in Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia in August 1992, and his fellow ex-serviceman Zdravko Narancic of helping him.
In a second-instance verdict, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced six defendants for crimes committed against Serb and Croat civilians in the Hadzici area to a total of 42 years in prison.
The UN court in The Hague rejected the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s appeal against his conviction and sentenced him to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Enver Buza, wartime acting commander of the Bosnian Army’s Prozor Independent Battalion, was sentenced to eight years in prison for failing to discipline his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in the village of Uzdol in 1993.
Danko Vladicic is accused of committing a war crime by killing two Bosniak neighbours, a husband and wife who were both civilians, in the village of Brod na Drini near Foca in August 1992.
Nine Bosnian Serb officials, police officers and soldiers went on trial in Sarajevo for an attack on the village of Novoseoci in September 1992 in which 45 Bosniak civilians were shot dead.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic said he was innocent of involvement in the persecution of Bosniaks in the Ugljevik area in 1992.
Former reservist policeman Simo Stupar was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his involvement in killing, beating and illegally detaining Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1992.
A prosecution expert witness told the trial of Jahja Vukovic, who is accused of joining terrorist military units in Syria, that being exposed to armed conflict as a minor affected his mental state.
Prosecution witnesses’ statements read out at the trial of alleged fighter Milarem Berbic claimed they saw him armed and wearing a uniform while he was in Syria, but that they thought he was not militarily active.
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