Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic - charged with torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime because she was married to a Bosniak - went on trial in Sarajevo.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar was indicted for taking part in a massacre in which 57 Bosniak civilians were burned alive in a house in Visegrad in 1992.
The state prosecution indicted Radomir Susnjar on Friday for his role in the June 1992 mass killing of Bosniaks who were locked into a house on Pionirska Street in Visegrad which was then set on fire.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Vuk Ratkovic was accused of torturing, abusing, raping and beating a victim on several occasions in the Visegrad area from 1992 to 1993.
The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday charged former soldier Vuk Ratkovic with crimes against the civilian population in Visegrad from June 1992 to the end of the first half of January 1993.
A Serbian court confirmed charges against five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers they abducted from a train in Strpci, Bosnia in 1993 - over two years after they were indicted.
Two former Bosnian Serb soldiers and an ex-policeman were charged with crimes against humanity over the torture and subsequent forced disappearance of six Bosniaks from Visegrad in 1992.
The state prosecution filed an indictment on Friday charging Momir, Petar and Mirko Tasic with committing crimes against humanity in the Visegrad area during wartime.
The first prosecution witness at the trial of Jovan Tintor for crimes against humanity in the Vogosca area said the defendant threatened in spring 1992 that Bosniaks’ blood “will colour everything red”.
After striking a plea bargain and admitting guilt, Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Mico Jovicic was jailed for five years for his involvement in the abduction of 20 passengers from a train in Strpci in 1993.
The Bosnian state court on Wednesday accepted the guilt admission agreement struck with the prosecution and convicted former Bosnian Serb soldier Mico Jovicic of involvement in the abductions at Strpci railway station, sentencing him to five years in prison.
Statements by relatives of people kidnapped from a train in Strpci in February 1993 and later killed said they first heard of the abductions through the media.
Jovan Popovic was cleared of making unlawful arrests and seizing civilians from the village of Rodica Brdo in the Visegrad area with a group of Serb fighters in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo acquitted Popovic on Wednesday of crimes against humanity, ruling that the prosecution had not managed to prove he was guilty or even if he was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army or any paramilitary group at the time.
Testifying in defense of her husband, Jovan Popovic, Slavojka Popovic said she never heard that her husband harmed their Bosniak neighbours in Visegrad.