Vojin Pavlovic, head of the Eastern Alternative organisation, went on trial for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred – the first person to be tried in the country for glorifying Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic.
An ex-detainee told the war crime trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic that female captives were taken from the Sase mine prison camp near Srebrenica in 1992 to be raped.
The Bosnian state court has again rejected an indictment accusing wartime Serb official Milenko Stanic of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in the Vlasenica area in 1992 and 1993.
The remains of at least five war victims, believed to be Bosniak women and girls from the same family who were killed in 1992, were found in the eastern Bosnian municipality of Bratunac.
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims that thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995 were active soldiers, not civilians.
The Bosnian state court has asked Serbia to take over the prosecution of wartime Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic, who is accused of rape, sexual abuse and the killing of civilians in the Bratunac area in 1992.
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN asks why there have been no convictions for the brutal abuse and murders of prisoners detained by Bosnian Serb forces at a school in the town of Bratunac in May 1992.
Former fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US, went on trial for detaining, assaulting and killing Bosniak civilians who were taken from their village and held in captivity in Bratunac in May 1992.
<div class="btArticleExcerpt">The Bosnian state court refused to confirm an indictment charging former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Tadija Mitrovic with crimes against humanity for killing a civilian in the Bratunac area in May 1992.</div>
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The Bosnian state court told BIRN that it has rejected the indictment charging Tadija Mitrovic with crimes against humanity during the war in 1992 because there are not sufficient grounds to suspect that he committed the crime.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US for lying about his role in the war, will go on trial this month for committing crimes against humanity in the Bratunac area in 1992. Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic will go on trial on March 23 for crimes including murders, expulsions, […]