City: Prijedor Archives

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Boro Milojica was found guilty of multiple murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Hambarine in the Prijedor area in July 1992.

After the State Prosecution called on the Court to sentence Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic for crimes committed in the Prijedor area and their defense teams called for an acquittal, the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced it would hand down a second instance verdict on October 26.

The Bosnian authorities are seeking the arrest of ex-policeman Mico Jurisic, who failed to appear to start serving his 11-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity in the Prijedor area during the war in 1992.

Mourners threw roses into a ravine at the Koricani Cliffs on Mount Vlasic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where at least 200 Bosniak and Croat men were shot dead on August 21, 1992.

Radenko Marinovic, who was found not guilty of participating in the persecution of the Bosniak population in the Prijedor area in 1992, is suing the state for around 25,500 euros in compensation.

Six people’s remains were buried at the annual ceremony for recently-exhumed war victims at the Kamicani Memorial Centre near Prijedor, but the event was scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko, who was acquitted of taking three civilians from a detention camp in 1992 and then killing one of them, is suing the state for 10,210 euros.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing of five members of a Bosniak family in a village near Prijedor during the war in 1992.