31. May 2017.
Cities around Bosnia are commemorating the horrendous crimes committed against the non-Serb population of the northeastern town of Prijedor 25 years ago by putting up white ribbons.
City: Prijedor
9. May 2017.
Wartime prisoners marked the Day of Camp Inmates by gathering at former detention centres to commemorate those who died and to demand better treatment for those who survived.
10. April 2017.
Nine former Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen went on trial for a series of charges related to the capture, abuse and murder of scores of Bosniak civilians near Prijedor in 1992.
Slobodan Taranjac, Miodrag Glusac, Ranko Babic, Ranko Dosenovic, Marinko Prastalo, Rade Zekanovic, Zdravko Panic, Trivo Vukic and Milan Vukic went on trial on Monday at the state court in Sarajevo, accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise in the Prijedor area from July 27 to 30, 1992.
7. April 2017.
A former prisoner told the trial of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Azra Basic that he was assaulted and ridden like a horse by a female guard while in custody in 1992.
Prosecution witness Stanimir Pijetlovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was detained on April 26, 1992 by Croatian Defence Council fighters and held in the Army House in Derventa, where he and other prisoners were abused.
24. February 2017.
A former prisoner told the trial of four Serb ex-policemen that one defendant beat him up near Prijedor in 1992, while other prisoners disappeared during the night.
19. January 2017.
A defence witness at the trial of eight men accused of mistreating wartime detainees in Hadzici said prisoners at the Krupa and Silos military barracks had access to medical care and were not abused.
12. December 2016.
In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the defence said UN prosecutors did not prove the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces committed genocide in six Bosnian municipalities in 1992.
Mladic’s defence lawyer Dragan Ivetic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Monday that the prosecutors had not proved that there was a coordinated plan for the commission of genocide in the six municipalities or that the Bosnian Serb Army commander was responsible for persecution and ethnic cleansing there.
9. December 2016.
In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, lawyers for the former Bosnian Serb military commander said he never ordered the Srebrenica mass killings and the case against him was systematically biased.
6. December 2016.
Eight Bosnian Serbs were arrested in the town of Prijedor for their alleged involvement in detaining, torturing and killing 120 Bosniak men and boys in the country’s north-west in 1992.
Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested the eight men on Tuesday morning in Prijedor on war crimes charges.
28. November 2016.
Dragoje Zmijanjac was sentenced to six years in prison for committing crimes against civilians, convicted of murdering a Bosniak man in Prijedor in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Monday found Dragoje Zmijanjac guilty of taking Bosniak civilian Halil Dedic from his house in Prijedor in July 1992 and shooting him dead.
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