City: Doboj Archives

An ex-member of the Red Berets unit told the retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the unit persecuted and murdered Bosniaks in the Doboj area in 1992. A protected prosecution witness told Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s retrial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that the Red Berets unit expelled, killed and tortured Bosniaks in and around Doboj in Bosnia in May 1992.

A Sarajevo court found former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Djordje Simic not guilty of crimes against humanity, clearing him of killing a Bosniak man in the village of Sevarlije in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo found Djordje Simic not guilty on Tuesday, ruling that the prosecution had not proved beyond reasonable doubt that he killed the Bosniak man after seizing him from a field in Sevarlije, near the town of Doboj, on June 12, 1992.

A prosecution witness told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serbian Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniaks and Croat captives in the town of Doboj in 1992. Prosecution witness Edin Hadzovic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniak and Croat captives in Doboj on July 12, 1992.

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.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Djorgje Simic was indicted for crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Doboj area in 1992 and 1993. The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictment of Djorgje Simic, who is accused of involvement in the persecution of the non-Serb civilian population in the Doboj municipality from May 1992 until autumn 1993.

A witness alleged that former special forces policeman Slobodan Karagic, who is accused of murder and unlawful detentions in Doboj, threatened to throw him into a river in 1992. Prosecution witness Ibro Spahic told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he was threatened by Slobodan Karagic, a Serb former Red Berets special police unit commander who is charged with participating in attacks against the Croat and Bosniak population in the Doboj area from spring to autumn 1992.

Former policeman Vojislav Brestovac was found guilty of participating in the murder of two Bosniak brothers and their sister in the Doboj area in 1992 and sentenced to eight years in prison.

A prosecution witness told the war crimes trial of former Serb special policeman Slobodan Karagic that the defendant raped her in Doboj when she was 15. The protected prosecution witness codenamed K-1 told the court in Sarajevo on Monday that the defendant Slobodan Karagic, a former commander of the Red Berets special police unit, raped her in Doboj in 1992.

The first witness testified at the trial of Borislav Paravac, a Serb former member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, accused of participating in wartime attacks that killed several hundred Bosniaks and Croats.

Borislav Paravac, a Serb former member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, went on trial for taking part in wartime attacks that killed several hundred Bosniaks and Croats in 1992 and 1993.

City: Doboj

Serbian Red Berets ‘Expelled, Tortured and Killed Bosniaks’

Bosnian Serb Soldier Acquitted of Killing Bosniak

Serbian Red Berets ‘Killed Civilian Captives’ in Bosnia

Military Policeman ‘Watched Troops Beat Detainees’ in Buzim

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Indicted for Doboj Persecution

Serb Ex-Policeman Accused of Threatening Doboj Detainee

Policeman Convicted of Murdering Bosniak Brothers, Sister

Victim Accuses Policeman of Rape in Doboj

Former Bosnian Presidency Member’s Trial Hears Murder Claims

Former Bosnian Presidency Member Goes on Trial

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