Tuesday, 7 october 2025.
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Plead Not Guilty to Abusing Prisoners
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Bosko Peulic , Petar Duric and Davor Peulic pleaded not guilty to committing war crimes against Croat prisoners of war and civilians in the Travnik...
‘The Elderly Were Liquidated’: An Unprosecuted Bosnian Village Atrocity
In the second report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series about the Bosnian war, relatives of elderly Croats killed in the village of Susanj in 1993 demand to know why the...
Bosnia Awards Iraqi War Crimes Convict €36,600
The Bosnian court awarded Abduladhim Maktouf, an Iraqi fighter convicted of war crimes during the 1992-95 conflict, 36,600 euros in compensation because he was in jail for two years longer...
Bosnia Indicts Ex-Mujahideen Fighter for Kidnapping Croats
Mirsad Hodzic, also known as Abu Dzafer, a former member of the Bosnian Army’s El Mujahid detachment, is accused of abducting and torturing three Croat civilians in Travnik in 1993....
Bosnian Croat Fighter Jailed for Travnik Abduction
The cantonal court in Travnik sentenced Bruno Saric, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, to four years in prison for seizing a man who was never seen alive...
Verdict in Saric Trial Expected on April 7
The Cantonal prosecution in Travnik requested that Bruno Saric be found guilty of war crimes in Travnik. The defense called for a not guilty verdict. The pronouncement of the verdict...
Bosnia Cuts Iraqi Fighter’s Jail Sentence
Abduladhim Maktouf, an Iraqi who fought in a Bosnian Army ‘mujahideen’ unit during the conflict, had his sentence for illegally detaining Croat civilians reduced from five years to three.
Witness Recalls Neighbor’s Abduction by Croatian Defence Council Member
Testifying before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik, prosecution witness Edib Sojtaric said he watched the abduction of his former neighbour Aleksa Kostres with his neighbour’s wife. Sojtaric said Kostres...
Mitigating Circumstances Not Reviewed At Maktouf Retrial, Says Defense Lawyer
Abduladhim Maktouf’s defense attorney requested that the appellate chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduce Maktouf’s sentence from five years to one year in prison.
Croatian Defence Council Forces Abducted Aleksa Kostres, Say Witnesses
At today’s hearing of the Bruno Saric trial at the Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik, defense witnesses said that Aleksa Kostres was abducted by members of the Croatian Defence Council...