The Bosnian court rejected Croatian Defence Council ex-fighter Mile Pazin’s appeal against his one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for mistreating a Bosniak civilian prisoner in the Stolac area in 1993.
Wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter Mile Pazin appealed against the verdict sentencing him to one-and-a-half years in prison for the inhumane treatment of a Bosniak civilian prisoner in the Stolac area in 1993.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, allowing them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage – and it’s not illegal.
The Bosnian prosecution called for the conviction of wartime fighters Mile Pazin and Vide Kresic, who are accused of physically and mentally abusing civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993.
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN examines the killings of several elderly people by members of the Bosnian Croat wartime force, the Croatian Defence Council, who have never been brought to trial.
A former British peacekeeper who served in Bosnia and Herzegovina urged the Croatian leadership to help ensure that Zagreb sends Bosnian Croat war crime indictees to stand trial in Sarajevo.
Josip Kresic, a wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for crimes against civilian prisoners in the Stolac area in 1993, became the third defendant in the case to die before the final verdict.
Former detainees who were imprisoned by Bosnian Croat forces in a hospital for bone diseases in the town of Stolac will hold a commemoration for those who were tortured and died at the wartime detention facility.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Markovic, who was on trial for war crimes against civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993, has died.