19. December 2018.
Former Bosnian Army Fifth Corps commander Atif Dudakovic and 15 subordinates pleaded not guilty to wartime crimes including over 300 murders and the destruction of Serb Orthodox churches.
City: Bihac
29. November 2018.
When migrants in northwest Bosnia began passing Lejla Samardzic’s house, she began photographing them, naming the series ‘The Migration Times’ – which she publishes daily on Twitter.
28. November 2018.
The Bosnian prosecution charged former policeman Dusan Cimesa with committing crimes against humanity by leading an attack aimed at driving Bosniaks out of the Bihac municipality in 1992.
The prosecution filed an indictment on Wednesday charging Dusan Cimesa with participating in a joint criminal enterprise from May to December 1992 with the aim of ethnically cleansing the municipality of Bihac of its Bosniak civilian population by persecuting them on an ethnic and religious basis.
27. April 2018.
The war crimes arrest of Bosnian Army Fifth Corps ex-commander Atif Dudakovic was criticised by some Bosniak politicians but welcomed by Serbs, again highlighting the country’s ethnic divisions.
27. April 2018.
Atif Dudakovic, former commander of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, was arrested on suspicion of war crimes against Serbs and Bosniaks in 1994 and 1995.
Former general Atif Dudakovic, along with 11 other officers and soldiers of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of having committed war crimes against Serbs and Bosniaks in 1994 and 1995.
15. February 2018.
Dino Pecenkovic’s father and brother fought and died in Syria, but he rejected extremism - although his family’s radical connections led to accusations that he helped an Islamic militant who attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo.
11. December 2017.
Hamdija Abdic, alias Tigar, who is considered a hero by Bosnian Army veterans, was arrested on suspicion that he was involved in the killing of a Bosnian Croat general in 1995.
Police in the north-western town of Bihac on Monday arrested Hamdija Abdic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Army Fifth Corps’ 502nd Brigade, on suspicion of murder, the Una-Sana Canton prosecution told BIRN.
17. August 2017.
Three Bosnian Serb ex-policemen were sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison for crimes against humanity in Bileca, while an ex-soldier was jailed for 14 years for the murders of Bosniaks in Bihac.
30. March 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Sasa Curguz was jailed for 15 years for his involvement in the murders of at least 11 Bosniak prisoners in the Bihac municipality in 1992.
The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday convicted Sasa Curguz of participating in the murders of at least 11 prisoners from the village of Ripac in the Bihac municipality, and of inhumanely treatment Bosniak detainees.
28. March 2017.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
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