Veselin Vlahovic, who waged a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992, had his prison sentence reduced from 45 to 42 years.
The Bosnian prosecution asked for a longer jail term for Serb fighter Zoran Dragicevic, convicted of torturing, imprisoning, raping and stealing from people during the siege of Sarajevo.
Veselin Vlahovic, alias Batko, has appealed against his lengthy sentence for a campaign of murder, rape, torture and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992.
Only 14 of about 100 people indicted for the gravest crimes are currently in the custody of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
With the all-important 1992-5 war glaringly absent from the textbooks in Bosnias schools, pupils and teachers have to fill in the knowledge gap on their own.
Although the European Court of Human Rights had the ability to do so, it did not ordered to Bosnia and Herzegovina to repeat its proceedings in the case of Damjanovic...
Paramilitary Veselin Vlahovic, alias Batko, was given Bosnias longest-ever war crimes sentence for a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992.
A witness at the trial of ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992 testified that paramilitaries beat her husband so badly that his lungs filled with blood.
On the third day of presentation of its closing statement the Defence of Veselin Batko Vlahovic, who is charged with crimes in Sarajevo, analyses the counts, which, in the opinion...
The State Prosecution believes they have proven that Veselin Vlahovic known as Batko is guilty of all offences, as outlined in the indictment. They stated, furthermore, that even the highest...