City: Vlasenica Archives

The state court confirmed an indictment charging four former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers and policemen with crimes against humanity over attacks on Bosniak villages in the Vlasenica area in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Thursday confirmed the indictment charging Simo and Zoran Stupar and Zoran and Goran Tesic with contravening the Geneva Conventions’ provisions on the protection of civilians during times of war.

Three former Bosnian Serb policemen and a former soldier were charged with involvement in the murders of at least 16 Bosniaks and the persecution, torture and abuse of civilians in the Vlasenica area. The Bosnian prosecution on Thursday charged Simo and Zoran Stupar and Goran Tesic, former police reservists at the Public Security Station in […]

Former soldier Rade Garic was charged with persecuting Bosniaks by committing murders, torture, rape and other crimes in the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday confirmed the indictment of Rade Garic, the former commander of the Interventions Squad of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Vlasenica Brigade, for crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sladjan Pajic was arrested on suspicion that he committed multiple rapes and mistreated detained Bosniak civilians in Vlasenica in 1992. State Investigation and Protection Agency police officers arrested ex-soldier Sladjan Pajic on Tuesday on suspicion that he committed war crimes against the civilian population in Vlasenica from May 1992 to the end of that year, the Bosnian state prosecution said.

Former Bosnian Serb detention camp manager Dragan Nikolic, who admitted participating in the murders, rape and torture of Bosniak prisoners in 1992 and apologised to his victims, has died.

The March edition of TV Justice brings story about Vlasenica, a small town in Republika Srpska, where more than 8,000 non-Serb women, children and men were held at various times in the main detention facility, called Susica.

The mayor of Vlasenica and three other ex-policemen have been charged with the wartime murders, forcible disappearances, unlawful detention, torture and abuse of Bosniak civilians in the Vlasenica area.

Visnja Acimovic was charged with involvement in the shooting of 37 Bosniak prisoners in the Vlasenica municipality in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Monday charged Visnja Acimovic, also known as Beba, with having participated in the shooting of 37 Bosniak men at Mracni Dol in the Vlasenica municipality, near the Susica detention camp, which was run by Bosnian Serb forces.

Nearly 50 candidates for the positions of mayor or municipality chief in next month’s Bosnian elections have been convicted of, charged with or investigated for organised crime, corruption or war crimes.

In this month’s edition, which is dedicated to crimes committed in Prijedor, you can hear stories by four survivors of dreadful executions.

City: Vlasenica

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters Indicted for Vlasenica Crimes

Four Serbs Charged with Attacks on Bosniak Villages

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Charged with Crimes Against Humanity

Bosnia Arrests Serb for Wartime Rape, Prisoner Abuse

Hague Convict Who Apologised for War Crimes Dies

Episode 92: Crimes in Vlasenica: Then and Now

Bosnia Charges Serb Mayor with Wartime Persecution

Bosnia Charges Serb Woman with Vlasenica Massacre

Bosnian Mayoral Hopefuls Tainted by Crime Claims

Episode 81: Surviving a Shooting

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