Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Radislav Krstic, the first person to be convicted by the Hague Tribunal of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, has asked again to be freed after his previous requests were denied.
The Bosnian state court asked Interpol to issue international ‘red notices’ for the arrest of Dusan Milunic, Ilija Zoric and Zoran Stojnic, who were convicted under a first-instance verdict of attacking civilians in the village of Zecovi in 1992.
Flowers were laid in the Alipasino Polje neighbourhood of Sarajevo to mark the 30th anniversary of the deaths of six children who were killed by shells fired from Bosnian Serb Army positions as they were sledging in the winter snow.
Former Security Minister Selmo Cikotic, who was a Bosnian Army officer during the war, was charged with failing to prevent the torture and murders of Croat military prisoners in Bugojno in 1993.
In a series of indictments announced over the New Year period, 15 suspects were charged with various wartime crimes including attacks on villages that left dozens of Bosniaks and Croats dead and executing hundreds of men from Srebrenica.
The 11 suspects were charged with committing crimes against humanity in 1992 for their involvement in the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of around 700 Bosniak men and boys, some of whom were killed.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented a multimedia research into Serbia’s role in the Bosnian war through international tribunal verdicts – with reference to the verdict against former Serbia State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.
Out of 39 media outlets covered by the Media Ownership Monitor Database, nearly 40 per cent of the most prominent media outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not offer full transparency, a conference to present the Database organised by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, heard.
Haris Rovcanin won this year’s regional award in the ‘Contribution to the Community’ category for his work on the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia.
Seven former Bosnian Serb Army officers and soldiers were charged with the capture and killing of 65 Bosniaks in the Sekovici and Vlasenica areas in July 1995 as the victims were fleeing Srebrenica.