Wartime fighter Edin Gadzo’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the Bosnian capital.
An exhumation in the grounds of a major hospital in the Bosnian capital unearthed fragments of bones, shoes and a wristwatch that are believed to have belonged to a victim of the 1992-95 war.
Wartime Serb fighters Slobodan Bogdanovic and Goran Sladoje were both found guilty of physically abusing a Bosniak man and his son and using them as human shields in Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
The Bosnian state court sentenced Senad Kasupovic to three years in prison for organising and joining a terrorist group, finding that he went to fight for Islamic State in Syria.
Wartime fighter Senad Dzananovic’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining, raping and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the city.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Tarik Sisic, who was convicted of involvement in the killings of 21 Serbs in the village of Kukavice in 1992.
The Constitutional Court has rejected a compensation claim from Kemal Muric, who sought 60,000 Bosnian marks (over 30,000 euros) in damages after the state prosecution discontinued an investigation into him and several others for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve 2016.
Twenty-five years ago, a peace deal crafted at a United States air base in Ohio ended the Bosnian war. Today, nobody likes it, but in a politically-divided country, agreement on any reform will be tough to reach.
History textbooks for secondary school pupils in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two ethnically-dominated entities and in Serbia give different accounts of what happened during the 1990s Bosnian war, further entrenching divisions through children’s education.
After a delay of two-and-a-half years, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers adopted a revised strategy for processing war crimes cases, intended to speed up work on clearing the country’s huge backlog.