Former Bosnian Army soldier Senad Salkic was convicted of raping three women during the conflict with the separatist forces of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia in the Velika Kladusa municipality.
Husein Cejvanovic, who was a fighter for the separatist Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, is accused of killing one Bosnian Army prisoner of war and assaulting two others in the Velika Kladusa area in 1995.
The investigation of the murder of six men near the town of Velika Kladusa in 1994 has been bounced around between prosecutor’s offices for the past 17 years – and no one has yet been indicted.
<div class="btArticleExcerpt">When prosecutors started to investigate the killings of six people by rebel Bosniak militiamen in north-western Bosnia, relatives hoped that indictments would soon follow - but 15 years later, the probe is still ongoing.
Former Serbian deputy security chief Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that his client did not command an operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.
At the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, Simatovic’s lawyer denied that his client commanded the ‘Pauk’ (‘Spider’) operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, as a prosecution witness has claimed.
At the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, prosecutors played a video of paramilitaries from the Scorpions unit murdering men from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Prosecutors played the video of the six Bosniak civilians’ murders, filmed by the Scorpions themselves, at Stanisic and Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday.
Former reservist police officer Enes Salkic was indicted for the alleged wartime torture, abuse and inhumane treatment of civilians in the town of Velika Kladusa in August 1995.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Thursday accusing Salkic of committing war crimes against civilians in Velika Kladusa.
Two former Bosnian Army soldiers were arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting an under-age Serb girl in the Sarajevo area in 1993.
Police on Wednesday arrested former soldiers Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting the Serb girl during the war in 1993.
Former fighter Hasib Cehic was sentenced to four years in prison for committing crimes against captured Bosnian Army soldiers in the Cazin and Velika Kladusa areas during wartime.