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The Bosnian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Serbian citizen Nenad Bubalo, a former military policeman who is accused of participating in the murders of at least five Bosniak civilians in 1992. The Bosnian Justice Ministry issued a warrant on Monday for the arrest of Nenad Bubalo, the former deputy commander of the military police of the Bosnian Serb Army’s 15th Bihac Brigade, after he failed to appear for a plea hearing.

Hundreds of Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in the countries of the Balkans since a failed 2016 coup, seeking protection from a crackdown being waged well beyond the borders of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, BIRN has discovered.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s communications authority fined the Bosnian Serb public broadcaster 6,125 euros for airing a false report about the 1995 shelling of the town of Tuzla, in which 71 people were killed.

Bosnia’s wartime administration prosecuted some of its own fighters for killing civilians - but because it feared being accused of acting as heinously as its opponents, it didn’t charge them with war crimes.

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The trial of Gavrilo Stevic, a Bosnian Serb charged with going to the conflict zone in Ukraine as part of a pro-Russian separatist militia unit, opened at the Bosnian state court.

Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of Bosnian Serb police special units who was initially acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were then abused and killed in July 1995, has died before his final verdict.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic appealed against the verdict convicting him of detaining and killing five Bosniak civilians, all members of the same family, near Prijedor in 1992. Sretko Pavic, a former member of the Volarska Company with the Sixth Ljubija Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army, asked the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday to quash the sentence convicting him of wartime crimes or order a retrial.

A third of the war crimes indictments filed by the Bosnian state prosecution this year have been transferred to lower-level courts, sparking criticism of prosecutors for not focusing on more complex and important cases.

The Bosnian court was urged to impose harsher sentences on Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor, two Bosnian Islamists who were jailed for a total of six-and-a-half years for planning terrorist attacks.

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Bosnia Issues Warrant for Serbian War Crime Suspect

Unsafe Haven: Balkans Sees Rise in Turkish Asylum Requests

Bosnian Serb TV Station Fined for False Report on Massacre

Murder or War Crime? Why Bosnia Had a Dilemma

US Judge Mulls Extradition of Bosnian War Rape Suspect

Bosnian Citizen Tried for Joining Ukrainian Separatist Unit

Srebrenica Crimes Defendant Dies Before Final Verdict

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Appeals Conviction for Killing Family

Bosnian Prosecution Criticised over War Crimes Indictments

Bosnian Prosecution Demands Higher Sentences for Terror Plotters

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