28. October 2020.
Croatia’s Supreme Court increased the prison sentence handed down to Vinko Martinovic, a Bosnian Croat wartime fighter already convicted of ethnic cleansing by the Hague Tribunal, for the 1996 murder of a Bosniak woman in Mostar.
City: Mostar
13. October 2020.
The prosecution in Zagreb has agreed to take over Bosnia’s case against former Croatian Defence Council general Zlatan Mijo Jelic, who is accused of wartime crimes against Bosniak civilians in Mostar in 1993-94.
9. September 2020.
Two soldiers were on opposing sides when 33 Bosnian Croats were massacred by Bosnian Army troops 27 years ago - but now they are both working to ensure that the crime is not forgotten.
18. June 2020.
The Bosnian state court agreed to transfer to Croatia the case against former Croatian Defence Council general Zlatan Mijo Jelic, who is accused of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in Mostar in 1993-94.
11. May 2020.
Proceedings against Marinko Sunjic, a former Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for the illegal detention, persecution and abuse of Bosniak civilian prisoners in Mostar in 1992 and 1993, were halted because of his death.
4. May 2020.
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN examines the killings of several elderly people by members of the Bosnian Croat wartime force, the Croatian Defence Council, who have never been brought to trial.
30. July 2019.
The remains of at least two people, believed to be Serbs killed in the 1992-95 war, were exhumed from a hidden grave in the Jajce area in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.
7. May 2019.
Thousands of Bosnians who suffered in wartime detention camps still receive no assistance from the authorities because the country’s state-level law on torture victims is being obstructed by an ethnically-based political dispute.
28. March 2019.
Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted on appeal of committing crimes against humanity by allowing the abuse of prisoners in the Mostar area in 1993 and 1994.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday acquitted Mile Puljic, former commander of the Second Battalion of the Croatian Defence Council’s Second Brigade, of crimes against humanity.
12. February 2019.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Kolobara is wanted by the Bosnian authorities for crimes against humanity and war crimes against the civilian population.
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