City: Kalinovik Archives

Over the past four years, more than two million euros have been dedicated to building memorials honouring military and civilian casualties of the Bosnian war – but most only commemorate victims from the dominant ethnic group in each area.

The first prosecution witness at the trial of Ramiz Drekovic, former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps, recalled how a schoolgirl was killed and other pupils wounded in an attack on a Serb-populated village in 1995. Mitar Sladoje, the former director of an elementary school in Kalinovik, told the trial of Ramiz Drekovic at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday that a schoolgirl was killed and five other pupils were wounded when a shell landed in the residential part of the village on June 3, 1995.

The former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps, Ramiz Drekovic, went on trial for committing a war crime by ordering artillery attacks on a Serb-populated village in the Konjic area in 1995. The trial of Ramiz Drekovic opened at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday, with the defendant accused of ordering artillery units of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps to carry out non-selective attacks on Serb civilians in the village of Kalinovik in the Konjic municipality between May 21 and June 7, 1995.

Former Bosnian Army general Ramiz Drekovic was arrested in Sarajevo on suspicion of committing a war crime by ordering the ‘indiscrimate’ shelling of the Serb-majority town of Kalinovik in 1995. State Investigation and Protection Agency officers arrested former general Ramiz Drekovic on Wednesday on suspicion of committing a war crime against civilians by ordering artillery attacks […]

A mural monument honouring former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic, which has been installed at the entrance to his hometown Kalinovik, was criticised for glorifying the war crimes defendant.

The Bosnian state prosecution charged former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Dalibor Krstovic with the rape and sexual abuse of a Bosniak woman in Kalinovik in 1992. The prosecution charged Krstanovic on Wednesday with committing crimes against humanity during a widespread and systematic attack on Bosniak civilians in Kalinovik.

Former military policeman jailed for role in murder of at least ten Bosniaks held in Ripac village in 1992. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has jailed Zeljko Stanarevic for 13 years for crimes against humanity in the Bihac area of northwest Bosnia. The court found the former military policeman of the 15th Bihacka Brigade […]

Presenting its closing statement, the state prosecution called upon the state court to find Zoran Bjelica and Novica Tripkovic guilty of crimes in the Kalinovik area and sentence them in accordance with the law.

Presenting its closing statement, the state prosecution said it had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Zoran Bjelica and Novica Tripkovic committed war crimes in the Kalinovik area.

A prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zoran Bjelica and Novica Tripkovic said she was detained in a school building in Kalinovik with victim Edin Bico. She said Bico was tortured in 1992.

City: Kalinovik

Episode 109: Bosnia Spends €2 Million on ‘Divisive’ War Memorials

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Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Goes on Trial for Shelling Village

Bosnian Army Ex-General Arrested for Shelling Town

Ratko Mladic Monument Erected in His Bosnian Hometown

Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Soldier with Wartime Rape

Stanarevic Gets 13 Years For Bihac Killings

State Prosecution Calls for Guilty Sentence in Bjelica and Tripkovic Trial

Prosecution Gives Closing Statement at Bjelica and Tripkovic Trial, Ambulance Called for Tripkovic

Presentation of Evidence at Kalinovik Crimes Trial Completed

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