City: Gorazde Archives

Ahmet Sejdic, the former commander of the First Visegrad Brigade of the Bosnian Army, was cleared of the unlawful arrest and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in Rudo and Gorazde in 1992 and 1993. The Bosnian state court on Tuesday cleared former Bosnian Army brigade commander Ahmet Sejdic of 11 counts of inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war from the Bosnian Serb Army in the period between July 1992 and February 1993.

The prosecution urged the Bosnian state court to convict former local police chiefs Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric of unlawfully detaining, abusing and killing Serb civilians in Gorazde in 1992 and 1993. In its closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Thursday, the prosecution said it had proved that former police officers Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric were guilty of unlawful detention, murder, inhumane treatment and the deprivation of the right to a fair trial between July 1992 and February 1993.

Former Bosnian Army security officer Mehmed Dobraca was charged with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained in the Rogatica and Gorazde areas in 1995. The Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed an indictment accusing Mehmed Dobraca of crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the period between February and October 1995.

Former Bosnian Army brigade commander Ahmet Sejdic told the Bosnian court that he was not guilty of wartime crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war in Rudo, Visegrad and Gorazde in 1992-93. Ahmet Sejdic told the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was innocent, as his defence called for his acquittal on all charges in the indictment accusing him of the inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in the period between July 1992 and February 1993.

The Bosnian court increased the sentences handed down to former Bosnian Army soldiers Muhamed Sisic, Tarik Sisic and Aziz Susa, who were convicted of involvement in the killings of 21 Serbs in the village of Kukavice in 1992. The third-instance chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday sentenced Muhamed Sisic to ten years in prison and Tarik Sisic and Aziz Susa to eight years each for wartime crimes in the village of Kukavice in the Rogatica municipality in August 1992.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Lazar Mutlak was charged with raping and sexually abusing a Bosniak woman in the Gorazde area in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Monday filed an indictment charging Lazar Mutlak, alias Lazo, with raping a female civilian during the war in Gorazde in eastern Bosnia.

The trial of Ahmet Sejdic, wartime commander of the First Visegrad Brigade of the Bosnian Army, who is accused of crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war, opened at the state court.

A graphologist presented his findings at the trial of four former members of the Bosnian Army charged with crimes in the Gorazde area, as per a request by the district prosecution of Sarajevo. He testified regarding the signatures of the defendants in certain documents.

The trial of Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric for crimes against Serb civilians in Gorazde will open on March 24.

Testifying for the district prosecution in Eastern Sarajevo at the trial of three former Bosnian Army soldiers, a witness said he heard a certain number of people were captured in the Trovrh area in 1992.

City: Gorazde

Bosniak Commander Acquitted of Abusing Serb Prisoners

Convictions Urged for Bosnian Ex-Policemen Accused of Abusing Serbs

Bosnian Army Ex-Officer Indicted for Crimes Against Prisoners

Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Proclaims Innocence, Urges Acquittal

Bosniak Ex-Soldiers’ Sentences for Attack on Serbs Increased

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Charged with Wartime Rape

Bosnian Army Visegrad Commander Goes on Trial

Graphologist Evaluates Signatures of Defendants in Gorazde Trial

Gorazde Trial Opens on March 24

Former Territorial Defense Members Questioned on Trovrh Prisoners

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