City: Prijedor Archives

Wartime fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted of murdering five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday cleared Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic of the murders of five members of the Ecimovic family, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case.

Former Bosnian Serb military policeman Slobodan Knezevic is accused of involvement in the detentions and killings of 120 Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992. The Bosnian state court on Tuesday confirmed the indictment against Slobodan Knezevic, which accuses him of participating in a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police on the Bosniak population of the Prijedor municipality from July 27 to 30, 1992.

Slobodan Knezevic, suspected of war crimes in the village of Miska Glava, where 120 Bosniak civilians were killed in 1992, was extradited from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

During a four-year trial, the Hague Tribunal has heard powerful and strongly-contested arguments about whether Ratko Mladic is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity or whether he simply defended Bosnia’s Serbs.

Yugoslav bodybuilding star Fikret Hodzic was a victim of the 1992 campaign of military persecution for which former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic faces judgment next week - but can prosecutors prove it was genocide?

Former policeman Milan Gavrilovic was cleared of committing inhumane acts against non-Serb prisoners who were being transported between detention camps in the Prijedor area in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Milan Gavrilovic not guilty of committing crimes in the Prijedor municipality from May to August 1992 due to lack of evidence.

A prosecution witness at the trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica said he watched the defendant open fire at around ten Roma civilians in the village of Volarici in 1992. A protected prosecution witness codenamed S-3 told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he saw Boro Milojica, who is on trial over the killings of Bosniak, Croat and Roma civilians, open fire at the Roma villagers in Volarici.

Jasmin Causevic was 13 when he found himself in front of a Bosnian Serb firing squad - and despite being seriously wounded, he survived by hiding out in a basement for days.

The 25th anniversary of the beginning of the release of detainees from the notorious Omarska detention camp, run by Bosnian Serb forces in Prijedor, will be marked this weekend.

Prosecutors in the former Yugoslavia must develop comprehensive policies for dealing with sexual and gender-based crimes to ensure justice for vicims, Hague Tribunal deputy prosecutor Michelle Jarvis told BIRN.

City: Prijedor

Sarajevo Court Acquits Serbs of Killing Family

Bosnian Serb Indicted for Prijedor Detentions, Killings

Bosnian Serb War Suspect Extradited from Montenegro

Ratko Mladic: Genocidal Criminal or Innocent Protector?

Bodybuilder’s Murder Highlights Mladic’s 1992 Genocide Charge

Bosnia Clears Serb Policeman of Persecuting Detainees

Bosnian Serb Soldier ‘Shot at Roma Villagers in Prijedor’

How a Bosnian Boy Survived a Firing Squad

Bosnians Mark 25 Years Since Omarska Camp Closure

Wartime Sexual Crimes: A Challenge for Balkan Prosecutors

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