The trial of five former members of the Military Police of the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, for crimes committed in the Rogatica in 1995, began with reading of the indictment.
Ten defendants including Ejup Ganic, a member of Bosnia’s wartime presidency, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killings of retreating Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers in Sarajevo in 1992.
The UN court will rule in about a year’s time on Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s appeal against their conviction for aiding and abetting crimes committed by a Serbian State Security Service special unit during the Bosnian war.
Dusan Sladojevic, Slavko Aleksic and Risto Lecic, members of a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation, were sentenced to five months in prison each for inciting hatred at a rally in the Bosnian town of Visegrad in 2019.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Nikola Koprivica denied he was there when 44 Bosniaks were killed in the village of Novoseoci, near Sokolac, during the war in 1992.
The Bosnian prosecution requested a one-month custody remand for Hamza Cardaklija, who is accused of threatening to commit a terrorist act emulating school shootings in the United States.
Former Territorial Defence force fighter Agan Ramic was cleared of committing a crime against humanity by hitting a minor in the village of Brdjani in the Konjic area during the war in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, was acquitted of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Zoran and Radenko Ilic went on trial for the persecution, illegal detention and forced disappearance of 16 Bosniak civilians in the Rogatica area during the war.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Andjelko Pusonja was cleared of killing a two-year-old child and injuring an adult civilian in the Han Pijesak area during the war in 1992.