4. March 2024.
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and military policemen were sentenced to a total of 36 years of prison for crimes against civilian detainees and prisoners of war held at a hotel in the town of Buzim in 1994-95.
City: Buzim
21. February 2022.
Former Bosnian Army military police officer Mehmed Alesevic was sentenced to five years in prison for seriously abusing civilian detainees in Buzim in 1994 and 1995.
10. September 2021.
Salafi preacher Husein Bilal Bosnic was convicted of recruiting people to go and fight for Islamic State, but while he was in prison, the Islamist militant group was defeated in Syria and other preachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed their tactics.
6. March 2017.
A prosecution witness claimed that military policeman Mehmed Alesevic, who is on trial for war crimes, was present while other soldiers beat him up at a motel in Buzim in 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Mehmed Alesevic at the state court on Monday, prosecution witness Safet Dzaferovic said that the defendant was there when he was beaten, although he did not participate in the assault.
13. February 2017.
At the trial of the former head of the Serb Crisis Committee in the Vogosca municipality, a witness said that the defendant Jovan Tintor threatened and hit him.
6. February 2017.
At the trial of the former head of the Serb Crisis Committee in the Vogosca municipality, a witness said the village of Svrake came under attack and then a death threat allegedly arrived from the defendant.
23. November 2016.
About 3,000 lives were lost in the conflict between members of the Bosnian Army and National Defense of the Western Bosnia Autonomous Region.
14. November 2016.
Former Bosnian Army officer Enver Buza went on trial over the killings of 27 Croat civilians - the youngest aged ten - by his troops in the Prozor municipality in 1993.
Buza, the former commander of Bosnian Army’s Prozor Independent Battalion, went on trial on Monday at the state court in Sarajevo.
15. March 2016.
The trial of eight former members of the Bosnian Army began with a reading of the indictment and the presentation of the state prosecution’s introductory statement. The defendants have been charged with committing crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the Buzim area.
8. March 2016.
Mehmed Alesevic, charged with crimes in Buzim, failed to appear at a status conference held today before the state court. According to the defense, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Slovenia due to his poor mental health.
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