City: Vitez

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30. July 2018.
A defence lawyer in the case against five former Bosniak soldiers accused of abusing Croat prisoners at a detention facility in the Vitez area in 1993 asked the Bosnian court for an acquittal verdict. In his closing statement to the state court in Sarajevo on Monday, a lawyer for one of the five former Bosnian […]

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13. March 2017.
At the trial of eight Serb ex-soldiers and police officers for an attack on Bosniak civilians in Lokanj near Zvornik in 1992, a prosecution witness said a police colleague told him local residents killed the victims.   Prosecution witness Raco Jovanovic, a former policeman with the Interventions Unit of the Public Security Station in Ugljevik, […]

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23. September 2016.
Former Bosnian Army soldier Jasmin Coloman was sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in the murder of detained Croat civilians in the Vitez area in 1993. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday convicted Coloman, a former member of the Commando Squad of the Bosnian Army’s Seventh Muslim Brigade, of participating in the murder of Croat civilians, who were detained in the village of Poculica in the Vitez area on April 24, 1993.


14. March 2016.
The trial of former Bosnian Army members Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal, Hazim Patkovic and Semsudin Djelilovic began with a reading of the indictment and the state prosecution’s opening statements. The defendants have been charged with committing war crimes against Croat civilians and prisoners of war in Kruscica in the municipality of Vitez.


7. January 2016.
The Bosnian court confirmed the indictment of former military policemen Mine Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal, Hazim Patkovic and Semsudin Djelilovic for alleged wartime crimes in the Vitez area.