City: Cajnice Archives

Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Milosav, Marijan and Slavko Jovanovic were sentenced to 11 years in prison each for killing five Bosniak civilians, including two children, in the Cajnice area in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Milosav, Marijan and Slavko Jovanovic, all former members of the Third Podrinjska Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, guilty of having killed five Bosniak civilians, including two children, in the village of Medosevici in the Cajnice municipality in June 1992.

Testifying at the trial of four former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with war crimes in the Cajnice area, a defense witness said he never heard anything about the attack on the village of Medosevici.

Testifying at the trial of three defendants charged with crimes in the Cajnice area, defense witnesses said they hadn’t heard that the defendants were associated with the disappearance of the Medosevic family until their arrest and the beginning of their trial.

Testifying at the trial of three former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with crimes in the Cajnice area, a defense witness said the defendants were on the frontline when their alleged crimes in the village of Medosevici.

The first defense witnesses to testify at the trial of three former members of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with crimes in Cajnice said they never heard that the defendants were associated with crimes committed in the village of Medosevici.

The state prosecution included material evidence in the case file at today’s hearing of four former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers charged with war crimes in the Cajnice area.

Zdenko Cihlarz, a court expert testifying at the trial of Stevo, Miloslav, Marijan and Slavko Jovanovic, said injured party Kimeta Medosevic died from injuries to her head and arms, which were caused by a projectile.

Former army unit commander Milun Kornjaca was sentenced to seven years in prison for ordering the illegal capture and detention of Bosniak civilians in the Cajnice area in 1992.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has postponed the verdict in the Milun Kornjaca retrial until August 6.

The appeals chamber will hand down a verdict in the Milun Kornjaca retrial on July 30. At todays hearing, Kornjaca presented his closing statement.

City: Cajnice

Bosnian Serb Troops Jailed for Killing Civilians, Children

Defense Witness Says He Heard Nothing About Medosevici Attack

Defendants Not Associated with Killing of Medosevici Family, Witnesses Say

Witness Says He Was with Jovanovics During Medosevici Village Attack

Witnesses Hadn’t Heard of Cajnice Murders Committed by Bosnian Serb Soldiers

Prosecution Presents Material Evidence at Cajnice War Crimes Trial

Forensic Experts Explain Cause of Death of Buckovici and Medosevici Victims

Bosnian Serb Fighter Jailed for Illegal Detentions

Kornjaca Verdict Postponed until August 6

Verdict in Kornjaca Retrial Expected July 30

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