City: Capljina Archives

Almost three decades after the last prisoners left the notorious Dretelj detention camp, several Bosnian Croat military policemen and security officers named in a Hague Tribunal verdict who could be suspects in the abuse and deaths of inmates have never been charged.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official imposed a ban on the glorification of war criminals and urged municipal authorities to remove murals of convicted offenders like Ratko Mladic – but many have ignored him.

Ex-prisoners at the notorious Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina aren’t able to commemorate the anniversary of its closure because the former Yugoslav military site was privatised and then closed.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Ivan Medic, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for mistreating civilian prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina.

The Bosnian court upheld the two-year jail sentence given to former Croatian Defence Forces member Tonco Rajic for mistreating a civilian prisoner at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in August 1992. The third-instance chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday upheld Tonco Rajic’s two-year prison sentence for committing a war crime at the Dretelj detention camp.

The Bosnian state court reduced former Dretelj detention camp guard Ivan Medic’s prison sentence for crimes against Serb civilian prisoners from 14 to 12 years on appeal.

The state prosecution called for former policemen Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura to be found guilty of committing war crimes in the Capljina area in July 1993. Prosecutor Stanko Blagic told the state court in Sarajevo in his closing statement in the trial on Wednesday that the allegations that the four men […]

The state prosecution called for former policemen Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura to be found guilty of killing three Bosniaks during an attack in the Capljina area in July 1993. Prosecutor Stanko Blagic told the state court in Sarajevo in his closing statement in the trial on Wednesday that the allegations that the four men committed war crimes involving the deaths of three Bosniak civilians had been proved, and called for them to be jailed.

A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has written to the Croatian authorities, appealing to them to extradite Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects to stand trial.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Edin Sakoc was sentenced to seven years in prison for participating in the murder of two Serb civilians in Pocitelj in the Capljina municipality in 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday convicted ex-fighter Edin Sakoc of involvement in the two Serb civilians’ murders in Pocitelj during wartime […]

City: Capljina

Hague Archives Reveal Suspects in Bosnian Croat Prison Camp Crimes

Bosnian Authorities Fail to Remove Murals of War Criminals

Bosnian War Prisoners Unable to Commemorate Detention Camp Closure

Bosnian Detention Camp Guard’s Prisoner Abuse Conviction Upheld

Bosnian Camp Guard Jailed for Abusing Wartime Prisoner

Bosnian Wartime Detention Camp Guard’s Sentence Reduced

Prosecution Demands Punishment for Capljina Ex-Policemen

Bosnian Prosecution Demands Jail for Capljina Ex-Policemen

Extradite War Suspects, Ex-UN Peacekeeper Urges Croatia

Bosnian Croat Fighter Jailed for Serbs’ Murders

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