Case: Milojica and Rivic

The Bosnian prosecution called for a retrial in the case of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica, who was convicted of killings in the Prijedor area in 1992, and another ex-soldier who was acquitted.

Defence lawyers for former Bosnian Serb soldiers Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic argued that they should be cleared of responsibility for the killing of 19 Bosniaks, Roma and Croats in villages in the Prijedor area in 1992. The defendants (on the right, first and second rows) with their lawyers in court.

The Bosnian prosecution argued that former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic should be found guilty of responsibility for the killing of 19 Bosniaks, Roma and Croats in villages in the Prijedor area in 1992. In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday, the prosecution insisted that it had proved during the trial that Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic, former members of the Sixth Company of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Ljubija Battalion, participated in a widespread and systematic attack on the non-Serb population in the Prijedor area in June and July 1992.

A prosecution witness at the trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica said he watched the defendant open fire at around ten Roma civilians in the village of Volarici in 1992. A protected prosecution witness codenamed S-3 told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he saw Boro Milojica, who is on trial over the killings of Bosniak, Croat and Roma civilians, open fire at the Roma villagers in Volarici.