Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia until September next year, medical experts said.
The trial of former Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic was again postponed, despite an expert confirming he can stand trial, after his lawyer said Djukic’s health had deteriorated.
A hearing in Belgrade in the case of former Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic, sentenced for ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia, was postponed because he was admitted to hospital.
Author Ilija Brankovic launched a new book in which he tries to dispute the Bosnian Serb Army’s responsibility for the deadly shelling of the Bosnian town of Tuzla in May 1995.
Ilija Brankovic’s book, ‘Undercover Operation at Tuzla’s Kapija Square’, was launched on Tuesday evening in Banja Luka, the main town in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska.
The trial of Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic - already convicted in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia - was postponed again because of the defendant’s poor health.
The trial in Belgrade of Novak Djukic - convicted earlier in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia - is on hold after the Bosnian court failed to provide Serbia with the requested case material.
The Belgrade trial of Novak Djukic, already convicted in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, was delayed until further notice because court transcripts haven’t arrived.
People in Tuzla commemorated the 21st anniversary of a Bosnian Serb attack that killed 71 and injured 120, while the commander convicted of ordering the strike continued to contest the verdict.
Belgrade’s higher instance court postponed a hearing to discuss a request filed by the Bosnian authorities to have Novak Djukic serve his twenty prison sentence for war crimes in a prison in Serbia, where he’s been living for the past two years.