The UN court in The Hague rejected an appeal for early release from the wartime political leader of Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality, Milomir Stakic, who was convicted of the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats.
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policemen Milorad Kotur and Dusan Culibrk were charged with involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic, who was convicted of killing of five members of a Bosniak family in a village near Prijedor in 1992, failed to appear to start serving his sentence.
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.
Hague Tribunal judgments and evidence files contain names of Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen who have never been prosecuted for suspected involvement in killings, ethnic cleansing and detention camp abuses in Bosnia’s Prijedor area in 1992, a BIRN investigation has found.
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.