The trial of two former members of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, who are charged with crimes against the civilian population in Capljina and Stolac, before the State Court is due to begin next week.
Witnesses who are granted protection measures and appear at war crime trials before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, say that their identity is often uncovered, forcing them into a life of fear because of threats and pressure.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, a Hague Prosecution expert witness says that Serb forces occupied a number of towns in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with the strategic goals, which the indictee publicly proclaimed at the beginning of the war.
Acting on a warrant issued by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, state police on Wednesday searched a private house, courtyard and adjoining buildings used by Oliver Krsmanovic, who is suspected of crimes committed in the Visegrad area.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina files a motion asking the State Court to order one-month custody for Oliver Krsmanovic, who is suspected of crimes committed against Bosniak civilians in Visegrad, Rogatica and Rudo.
Police arrested Oliver Krsmanovic in Visegrad on Tuesday on suspicion that he participated, in collaboration with other paramilitaries commanded by Milan Lukic, in the kidnapping, torture and murder of 16 Bosniaks in October 1992.
While war-crime victims recall women as carrying out some of the vilest deeds in the whole of the Bosnian war, the courts seem curiously relucant to act.
Three days after the flight of Dusan Jankovic, the State Court says that situations like this one point to the weaknesses of legal provisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The remains of scores of civilians from the 1992 Visegrad killings in Bosnia have been found in Perucac lake, investigators have said, while the search for the bodies of victims from Kosovo continues.