Tuesday, 14 october 2025.
Bosnian Prosecutors Demand Higher Sentence for Brcko Killings
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...
Investigators File Voting Fraud Charges in Bosnia
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.
Bosnia Convicts Ex-Fighter Over Serbs’ Deaths in Brcko
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...
UN Court Refuses to Free ‘Serb Adolf’
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.
Brcko Wartime Leader ‘Freed Prisoner from Barracks’
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...
Brcko Prisoner ‘Saved From Death’ by Defendant
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...
Ex-Policeman Recalls Konjevic Polje Warehouse Massacre
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...
Bosnia Indicts Two for Crimes Against Brcko Serbs
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...
Ex-Prisoner Recalls Detentions, Beatings in Brcko
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...
Local Justice – Brcko: Interrogation of Monika Simonovic’s soon
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...