City: Mostar Archives

A Zagreb court’s decision to reduce former Bosnian Croat battalion commander Marko Radic’s war crimes sentence caused concerns that other Bosnian convicts with Croatian passports might ask for a transfer to Croatia in search of shorter sentences.

Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted of crimes against humanity as prosecutors failed to prove he allowed his subordinates to use prisoners as forced labour and human shields in Mostar.

The Bosnian state court sentenced former Croatian Defence Council fighter Sasa Savinovic to eight years in prison for his involvement in the murders and forced resettlement of Bosniaks in 1993 in Mostar.

Eleven former members of the Croatian Defence Council will stand trial for crimes against humanity for illegally detaining Bosniaks in inhumane conditions in Mostar in 1993 and 1994. The Bosnian state court on Thursday confirmed the indictment charging the 11 former Croatian Defence Council members - Nedzad Coric, Jure Kordic, Drazen Lovric, Dario Susac, Nedzad Tinjak, Nuhan Sikalo, Dario Mihalj, Stanko Skobic, Tomislav Ancic, Marinko Sunjic and Slavko Golemac - with crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Croat policeman Miroslav Peric was sentenced to one year in prison for inhumanely treating an underage prisoner of war at the Vojno detention camp near Mostar in 1993. The Bosnian state court found Miroslav Peric guilty on Tuesday of physically mistreating the boy, who was a prisoner of war at the Vojno camp near Mostar, in October 1993.

One of Britain’s most respected reporters on the Balkan wars of the 1990s has recalled his two encounters, in court and out, with Slobodan Praljak, the war criminal who committed suicide at the Hague Tribunal.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Sasa Savinovic was convicted of involvement in murders and forcible resettlement in Mostar in 1993 and jailed for eight years for crimes against humanity.

Three former Bosnian Army servicemen were sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison for crimes against Croat civilian detainees who were held at a school near Mostar in 1993. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday sentenced Enes Curic to five years in prison and Ibrahim Demirovic to ten years for taking part in the illegal detention and inhumane treatment of Bosnian Croat civilians in Bijelo Polje, as well as making them do forced labour, while Habib Copelj was sentenced to two years for abusing the detained civilians.

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.

Prosecutors asked the Hague Tribunal to increase the jail sentences of six Bosnian Croat leaders accused of wartime crimes in the unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna to a total of 220 years.

City: Mostar

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Bosnian Croat Commander Cleared of Prisoner Abuses

Bosnia Jails Croat Fighter for Crimes Against Humanity

Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighters Charged over Mostar Detention Camps

Bosnian Croat Ex-Policeman Jailed for Assaulting Boy

UK’s Vulliamy Recalls Encounters with Belligerent Praljak

Bosnia Jails Mostar Fighter for Crimes Against Humanity

Bosnian Army Troops Jailed for Abusing Croat Prisoners

Extradite War Suspects, Ex-UN Peacekeeper Urges Croatia

Prosecutors Demand Longer Sentences for Bosnian Croat Leaders

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