City: Bihac Archives

In her closing statement, the defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb soldier Sasa Curguz said he was not guilty of murders and torture in the Bihac area in 1992. Presenting her closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday, Sasa Curguz’s defence lawyer Anja Loga said that the prosecution had neither proved that a widespread and systematic attack against civilians was conducted in the Bihac area in 1992 nor that the defendant’s actions were part of it.

About 3,000 lives were lost in the conflict between members of the Bosnian Army and National Defense of the Western Bosnia Autonomous Region.

Former Bosnian Army soldiers Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic were sentenced to seven years in prison each for raping a woman in Bihac in the country’s north-west in May 1994.

The state prosecution has filed an indictment against Sasa Curguz, charging him with crimes against the Bosniak population in the Bihac area in the summer of 1992.

The presentation of evidence at the trial of Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic concluded with the findings of a state prosecution expert and the property and legal claim of the injured party. Vojic and Mesic have been charged with wartime rape committed in the Bihac area in 1994.

A state prosecution witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said he saw the defendant with captives in the vicinity of a bridge in Strbacki Buk in the municipality of Bihac during the summer of 1992.

Although the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina repealed the verdict in the Suljo Karajic case due to the incorrect application of law, the state prosecution is sticking to its previous legal classification of his crimes. Karajic was sentenced to 18 years in prison for crimes committed in Krajina.

On Tuesday, the state prosecution said Serbia extradited war crimes suspect Sasa Curguz, who’s under investigation for crimes committed in Bihac in 1992.

Testifying in his own defense, Zeljko Stanarevic said he didn’t participate in an attack on the Ljutocka Valley in the municipality of Bihac during the summer of 1992. He said he saw prisoners from a detention camp in Ripac once, when he was given a ride on a truck transporting the prisoners.

Testifying at the trial of Zeljko Stanarevic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with crimes committed in the Bihac area, a defense witness said he hadn’t heard of wartime murders in Ripac.

City: Bihac

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