City: Srebrenica Archives

Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic is being retried for alleged crimes against humanity after initially being acquitted of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes in an attack on a village near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state court’s appeals chamber on Thursday began the retrial of Slavko Milovanovic, a former member of the reservist police force at the Public Security Station in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality, for alleged crimes against humanity.

The UN court in The Hague rejected former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s attempt to get judges he accuses of being biased against him disqualified from ruling on his attempts to appeal against his sentence.

Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of Bosnian Serb police special units who was initially acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were then abused and killed in July 1995, has died before his final verdict.

The prosecution appealed against the acquittal of former policeman Slavko Milovanovic, who was cleared of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack on the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution launched an appeal on Tuesday calling for the verdict which cleared Slavko Milovanovic of committing crimes against humanity in the village of Resagici in May 1992 to be quashed and a retrial ordered.

Bosnian Serb wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic appealed against his conviction for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. Sasa Cvetkovic’s defence on Monday launched an appeal at the Bosnian state court against the verdict that convicted the wartime fighter of killing two elderly Roma women in May 1992 and raping two Bosniaks, one of them a minor, in June 1992.

The UN court rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Krstic, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for aiding the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica.

An exhibition in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia aims to remind people of the stigma and discrimination that children born in the 1992-5 war as a result of rape, or who were fathered by foreigners, still face.

Srebrenica was under siege for three years before it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, but people in the enclave struggled to live as normally as possible despite food, water and power shortages.

The remains of some 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres are believed to still lie in hidden graves after their bodies were reburied again and again in attempts to conceal the killings.

Former Bosnian Serb special police brigade commander Goran Saric, who was acquitted of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, said that the killings of Bosniaks in July 1995 happened, but questioned whether the massacres were planned in advance.

City: Srebrenica

Bosnia Retries Serb Ex-Policeman for Ordering Burning of Homes

Radovan Karadzic’s Attempt to Remove ‘Biased’ Judges Rejected

Srebrenica Crimes Defendant Dies Before Final Verdict

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman’s Persecution Acquittal Challenged

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Appeals Murder, Rape Conviction

Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic Denied Early Release

Forgotten Children of Bosnian War Remembered in Srebrenica

‘World’s Biggest Detention Camp’: Srebrenica Before the Genocide

Srebrenica Cover-Up: The Search for Secret Graves Continues

Bosnian Serb Police Chief: Srebrenica Must Not Be Denied

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