City: Srebrenica

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12. May 2017.
The state prosecution charged former police commander Bogdan Stevanovic with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the Skelani and Srebrenica areas in 1992. The prosecution issued an indictment of Friday accusing Bogdan Stevanovic, the former commander of the Public Security Station in Skelani and a member of the Crisis Committee of the Serb municipality of Skelani, of assisting the commission of murders and ordering murders from May 1992 to the end of August that year.

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16. March 2017.
Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to reject a prosecution appeal to increase his sentence to life imprisonment and find him guilty of genocide in seven more Bosnian municipalities in 1992. Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday, asking the UN war crimes court to throw out the prosecutors’ appeal.

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15. March 2017.
In her closing statement, the defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb soldier Sasa Curguz said he was not guilty of murders and torture in the Bihac area in 1992. Presenting her closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday, Sasa Curguz’s defence lawyer Anja Loga said that the prosecution had neither proved that a widespread and systematic attack against civilians was conducted in the Bihac area in 1992 nor that the defendant’s actions were part of it.

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14. February 2017.
A witness told the trial of Brcko’s wartime president, Djordje Ristanic, that the defendant came to free a prisoner from a military barracks in the town in 1992. Testifying at the trial for crimes in Brcko, a witness said he heard Djordje Ristanic telling someone he had come to help him get out of the military barracks, where he was detained.