The Bosnian state court has asked Turkey for the extradition of Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, after he failed to appear to serve his eight-year war crimes sentence.
The Bosnian prosecution called for a 20-year sentence for Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.
Sakib Mahmuljin, former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, was sentenced to ten years in prison for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.
Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin, who is on trial for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners, said he was not guilty of the crime.
The remains of three people, believed to be Serbs who were killed in the village of Vozuca in 1995, have been exhumed on Mount Ozren in the Zavidovici municipality in central Bosnia.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ilija Juric was sentenced to six years in prison for committing rape in the Odzak area in 1992.
Following a retrial, the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Monday convicted Juric of raping a woman in the Odzak area in 1992, together with other soldiers.
At the trial of former Bosnian Army general Sakib Mahmuljin, a witness said he was beaten and given electric shocks by mujahideen fighters and forced to kiss another prisoner’s severed head.
Na suđenju Sakibu Mahmuljinu za zločine počinjene na području Vozuće (općina Zavidovići), svjedok Optužbe je ispričao kako su ga tukli i mučili u zarobljeništvu Odreda “El Mudžahidin” te kako je vidio odsječene glave saboraca.
The state court scheduled the start of the Sakib Mahmuljin trial for Wednesday, March 23. Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, has been charged with crimes in the Vozuca area of the municipality of Zavidovici.
A trial involving crimes committed in the Zavidovici area continued with testimony from a protected witness. The court prohibited publishing the testimony of the protected witness.