Cantonal Court in Mostar Archives

After having spent ten years in courtrooms, some of the war-crimes indictees are still awaiting second instance verdicts to be pronounced. Although everything is carried out according to the law, legal experts say that the fact that those trials have still not been completed can not be justified.

Enes Maksumic appears before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and pleads not guilty of the charges for torture and inhumane treatment of a Croat prisoner of war in the Battle of Neretva Museum in Jablanica.

During an appellate procedure before the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina the Prosecution requests longer sentence for Zehrudin Scuk, while the Defence proposes either a retrial or verdict of release.

The Defence of Luka Pric requests the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to quash a first instance verdict, under which he was sentenced to two years in prison for crimes in the Capljina area.

Former Bosnian Croat military policeman Frano Vulic was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes against civilian prisoners in the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in 1993.

The Cantonal court in Mostar has convicted two former Bosnian Croat fighters, Mijo Banovic and Gojko Granic, of committing war crimes at the Dretelj detention camp in 1993.

After the Prosecution and Defence presented their closing statements at the trial for crimes in Dretelj, the Mostar Cantonal Court schedules the pronouncement of a verdict against Frano Vulic for Wednesday, November 13.

Testifying in their defence before the Cantonal Court in Mostar, indictees Mijo Banovic and Gojko Granic say that they almost never visited the Dretelj detention camp.

The Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduces the sentence against Sabit Skampo to five-and-a-half years for having committed war crimes against the civilian population in Jablanica.

During the continuation of the trial of Frano Vulic, who is charged with crimes in Dretelj, near Capljina, witness Kresimir Bogdanovic tells the Cantonal Court in Mostar that he saw the indictee in front of the detention camp hangar after a shooting.

Cantonal Court in Mostar

Never Ending War-Crime Trials

Case against Ibrovic and Others Referred to Mostar

Longer Sentence or New Trial

Defence Requests Acquittal of Luka Peric

Bosnian Croat Jailed for Dretelj Camp Murders

Banovic and Granic Convicted of Dretelj Crimes

Verdict against Frano Vulic Due November 13

Verdict against Banovic and Granic on November 12

Sentence against Sabit Skampo Reduced

Hot Gun Pipe in Indictees Hands

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