8. March 2019.
The prosecution argued that the two-year sentence given to former Croatian Defence Council brigade commander Mensur Djakic for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the Brcko District in 1992 was below the legal minimum.
City: Brcko District
28. February 2019.
Bosnia's state Investigation agency has accused nine people of committing election fraud in the general elections in October 2018 in the Brcko area, BIRN Bosnia can reveal.
10. September 2018.
Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Monday found Mensur Djakic guilty of having watched a member of the Croatian Defence Council battalion that he commanded murdering three captured Serbs and then failing to take measures to punish the killer.
14. August 2017.
Former detention camp guard Goran Jelisic, who described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’, was refused early release from prison, where he is serving 40 years for crimes against humanity.
14. February 2017.
A witness told the trial of Brcko’s wartime president, Djordje Ristanic, that the defendant came to free a prisoner from a military barracks in the town in 1992.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Brcko, a witness said he heard Djordje Ristanic telling someone he had come to help him get out of the military barracks, where he was detained.
31. January 2017.
At the trial of Brcko’s top wartime official, a witness said that in May 1992, people were taken from the Luka detention camp in the town and killed, but the defendant saved him.
17. January 2017.
Testifying at the trial of five ex-policemen for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said a Bosnian Serb soldier killed around ten men in a warehouse in Konjevic Polje in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Rodoljub Milanovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday that a uniformed soldier shot the Bosniaks dead in Konjevic Polje on July 12, 1995.
9. January 2017.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighters Mensur Djakic and Begzad Kajtazi were charged with committing crimes against Serb civilians in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko municipality in 1992.
The state prosecution filed an indictment on Monday accusing Kajtazi of killing two women and Djakic of failing to prevent the killings of three prisoners during an attack on the village of Bukvik in September 1992.
20. December 2016.
A prosecution witness at the trial of Brcko’s wartime presidency chief Djordje Ristanic said prisoners were beaten and killed while he was detained in April 1992, and that he saw the defendant at one detention site.
11. August 2016.
Monika Ilic born Simonovic was handed over to the police of the Brcko District, where she went through arrest and her identity was established, after which the Prosecution would interrogate her.
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