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Fewer of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wartime missing persons are being found because witnesses who know about undiscovered mass graves are still unwilling to come forward and relatives are dying without learning the fate of their loved ones.

Former reservist policeman Milorad Radakovic is seeking 7,675 euros in compensation after he was acquitted of murdering five members of a family in a village near Prijedor during the war in June 1992. A lawyer for Milorad Radakovic, who was acquitted of committing war crimes in the village of Tukovi in the Prijedor area in June 1992, said on Wednesday that he is seeking 15,000 Bosnian marks (7,675 euros) in compensation from the Bosnian state for the “mental suffering” he endured as a result of a restraining order imposed during his trial.

Mourners laid flowers at the site of a wartime massacre at the Markale market in Sarajevo, where 43 people died in an artillery attack by Bosnian Serb forces in August 1995. The 24th anniversary of the massacre at the Markale market in Sarajevo was marked on Wednesday with a minute’s silence and the reading of the names of the 43 Sarajevo residents who were killed there on August 28, 1995.

Enver Buza, the former commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, said he should be acquitted of charges of failing to punish his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in an attack on the village of Uzdol in 1993. Enver Buza’s defence urged the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday to acquit him, arguing that his responsibility for the killings of Bosnian Croats in the village of Uzdol in the Prozor municipality in 1993 had not been proved during the trial.

Alminko Islamovic was convicted in April of the inhumane treatment of Serb civilians during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

The crimes were committed in eastern Bosnia during a wave of ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serb forces at the start of the 1992-95 war.

The victim was ‘convincing and consistent’ in her testimony, the judge said in the first instance verdict.

The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced the prison sentences for four Bosnian Serb former soldiers to a total of 59 years for participation in the murder of 28 civilians on Mount Borje, near the town of Teslic, in 1992. Under a first instance verdict in July last year, Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic and Zoran Sljuka were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murders.

The court confirmed the seven-year prison sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milomir Davidovic for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in Foca in July 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday upheld the verdict convicting Milomir Davidovic of raping a Bosniak woman in Foca during the war in July 1992 and sentencing him to seven years in prison.

An exhibition in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia aims to remind people of the stigma and discrimination that children born in the 1992-5 war as a result of rape, or who were fathered by foreigners, still face.

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Passing Time Makes Search for Bosnia’s Wartime Missing Harder

Acquitted Serb Policeman Sues Bosnia for ‘Suffering’ During Trial

Sarajevo Commemorates Anniversary of Market Massacre

Bosnian Army Officer Rejects Responsibility for Croats’ Killings

Bosnian Court Increases Sentence for Bosanski Brod Crimes

Bosnia Court Confirms Six-Year Sentence for Rogatica Crimes

Bosnian Court Confirms Verdict for Wartime Rape

Sentences Cut for Bosnian Serbs Behind Teslic Massacre

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldier’s Wartime Rape Conviction

Forgotten Children of Bosnian War Remembered in Srebrenica

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