City: Sarajevo Archives

Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units, was charged alongside three other ex-officers with killing eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners of war in 1992. The state prosecution on Thursday charged the four former police officers with war crimes, alleging they were responsible for the murders of eight Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers who were captured after their military vehicle broke down in Sarajevo in April 1992.

A former Croatian Defence Council fighter was detained in Mostar for alleged wartime crimes against civilians and a former Bosnian Army soldier was held in the capital Sarajevo.

Defence and prosecution lawyers made their final comments in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander for genocide and other wartime crimes and judges adjourned to start considering their verdict.

Prosecutors at Ratko Mladic’s trial rejected the defence’s closing arguments, insisting that the evidence proves that the former Bosnian Serb military commander is guilty of genocide and other wartime crimes.

Newly-published research has identified 600 sites at which around 160,000 prisoners were detained during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial, the defence said claims that Bosnian Serb forces under his command indiscriminately shelled Sarajevo and sniped at civilians were a myth.

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.

Elvir Muminovic was the third former Bosnian Army soldier to be arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting an under-age Serb girl in the Sarajevo area in 1993. The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Thursday that Elvir Muminovic was arrested on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting the Serb girl during the war in 1993.

As closing statements continued at Ratko Mladic’s trial, prosecutors said the trial had proved that the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces terrorised Sarajevo with a shelling and sniping campaign.

Two former Bosnian Army soldiers were arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting an under-age Serb girl in the Sarajevo area in 1993. Police on Wednesday arrested former soldiers Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting the Serb girl during the war in 1993.

City: Sarajevo

Sarajevo Police Commander Charged with War Crimes

Bosnia Arrests War Crimes Suspects in Mostar, Sarajevo

Ratko Mladic’s Trial Hears Final Statements

UN Prosecutors: Ratko Mladic’s Defence ‘Distorts Reality’

600 Wartime Detention Sites Identified in Bosnia

Mladic Defence: Bosnian Serbs Didn’t Terrorise Sarajevo

Ratko Mladic ‘Never Ordered Srebrenica Massacres’

Bosnia Arrests Third Ex-Soldier for Sarajevo War Rape

Ratko Mladic ‘Terrorised Sarajevo During Siege’: Prosecutors says

Bosnian Army Ex-Soldiers Arrested for Raping Minor

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