The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Defence attorneys of indictees Saban and Elvir Djelilbasic announce that they may reach a guilt admission agreement for crimes against civilians committed in Turbe, Travnik municipality.
A protected State Prosecution witness says, at the trial for crimes at Koricanske stijene, that he saw indictee Branko Topola in front of a convoy travelling from Prijedor to Travnik on August 21, 1992.
Saban and Elvir Djelilbasic have pleaded not guilty before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for participating in crimes against civilians in Turbe (Travnik Municipality).
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) achieved outstanding results in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2011, continuing to provide information and analysis to the media, victims, and the general public on war crimes trials and efforts to deal with the past in Bosnia and the region.
As announced by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, brothers Saban and Elvir Djelilbasic have been arrested due to a suspicion that they committed war crimes against the civilian population in Turbe, Travnik municipality in late 1992.
Testifying at the trial for crimes committed at Koricanske stijene, a Defence witness says that indictees Petar Civcic and Sasa Zecevic did not escort a convoy of civilians travelling from Prijedor to Travnik in August 1992.
The site of an infamous massacre of 200 men in 1992 is to be reexamined. But after 18 years of waiting, relatives fear they may never recover the remains of their loved ones.
Asima Memics son, Asmir, boarded a bus from Prijedor to Travniik as part of an exchange in July 1992. He never arrived, and only a single limb has ever been recovered.