A former British peacekeeper who served in Bosnia and Herzegovina urged the Croatian leadership to help ensure that Zagreb sends Bosnian Croat war crime indictees to stand trial in Sarajevo.
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The murder 20 years ago of notorious paramilitary chief Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, meant he never stood trial for war crimes - and two decades later, only one member of his much-feared Tigers unit has ever been prosecuted.
At a custody extension hearing for Muharem Dunic and Senad Kasupovic, who are suspected of fighting in Syria, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requested a two-month extension of custody, while the defense teams proposed house arrest instead.
The State Prosecution has demanded a two-month extension of custody for Jasmin Keserovic, one of the seven persons suspected of fighting on Syrian battlefront who were flown back to Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 19, due to a risk that he might flee and influence witnesses, possibly repeat the crime and because the crime in question is punishable with ten years in prison or longer.
Josip Kresic, a wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for crimes against civilian prisoners in the Stolac area in 1993, became the third defendant in the case to die before the final verdict.
Dalibor Krstovic went on trial in Belgrade accused of raping a Bosniak woman who had been captured by Bosnian Serb forces and was being held at a school in Kalinovik in 1992. The trial of Dalibor Krstovic, a Bosnian Serb fighter during the Bosnian war who is charged with raping a Bosniak woman in the […]
Malko Koroman, a wartime police chief in Pale, went on trial for the unlawful arrest and detention of Bosniak civilians, some of whom were tortured and killed in 1992. The crimes against humanity trial of Malko Koroman, the wartime chief of the police’s Public Security Station in Pale who is now a deputy mayor, opened […]
Syrian camp returnee Qendresa Sfishta received a suspended sentence in Pristina on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of joining the terrorist organisation ISIS.
Two courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina have rejected pleas to ban 16 Serb nationalist Chetnik associations for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred, while three more courts are still considering similar requests. Courts in the towns of Doboj and Sokolac have rejected requests to ban 16 associations whose titles contain the words ‘Chetnik Movement’ or ‘Ravna Gora […]