City: Teslic Archives

Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djuric, who were commanding officers at the Teslic police station during the war, with committing crimes against humanity in 1992.

Five former Bosnian Serb military policemen were sentenced to a total of 82 years in prison for their role in the killings of 28 Bosniak civilians on Mount Borje near Teslic in 1992. The Bosnian state court on Thursday convicted Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovc, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuka and Dragomir Kezunovic of taking 28 Bosniak civilians from the Teslic police station and Pribinic prison on the night between June 17 and 18, 1992 to Mount Borje, where they were all killed.

Former policeman Nebojsa Mirovic was charged with involvement in detaining, torturing and beating dozens of Bosniaks from the Teslic area in the spring and summer of 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution filed a war crimes indictment on Thursday against Mirovic, alias ‘Neso’ and ‘Srbijanac’, accusing him of unlawfully detaining Bosniaks in the Teslic area, separating the men from the others, and then violently abusing the prisoners.

Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Pero Radisic was sentenced to two years in prison for abusing two civilians in the Teslic area in 1994. The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday found ex-soldier Pero Radisic guilty of committing crimes against the civilian population in the Teslic area during wartime.

A prosecution witness told the trial of six former Bosnian Serb fighters that he saw the beating and killing of detained Bosniaks and Croat civilians in Kotor-Varos in 1992. Witness Sefik Varosic told the state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was captured by soldiers in the village of Vrbanjica in the Kotor-Varos municipality on June 25, 1992, detained in terrible conditions and beaten.

A prosecution witness told the trial of six Serbs accused of crimes against humanity that he and other Bosniak prisnoners were beaten up in detention in Kotor-Varos during wartime.

The Basic Court in the town of Prijedor destroyed an investigation file on the murders of five members of a Croat family during the war, allegedly by Serb forces, because it considered the material “worthless”.

The first witness testified at the trial of Borislav Paravac, a Serb former member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, accused of participating in wartime attacks that killed several hundred Bosniaks and Croats.

Borislav Paravac, a Serb former member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, went on trial for taking part in wartime attacks that killed several hundred Bosniaks and Croats in 1992 and 1993.

At a status conference held in the Pero Radisic case, the trial chamber said the state prosecution found a witness statement requested by the defense.

City: Teslic

Bosnia Charges Ex-Policemen with Attacks on Bosniaks, Croats

Bosnia Convicts Serb Military Policemen of Teslic Massacre

Serb Indicted for Abusing Dozens of Bosniaks in Teslic

Bosnian Serb Soldier Jailed for Abusing Civilians

Witness Recalls Beatings, Murders of Kotor-Varos Prisoners

Bosniaks ‘Beaten Every Day’ in Kotor-Varos Prison

Bosnian Court Destroys Family Murders Investigation File

Former Bosnian Presidency Member’s Trial Hears Murder Claims

Former Bosnian Presidency Member Goes on Trial

Prosecution Submits Witness Statement to Radisic Defense After Urging of Trial Chamber

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