24. December 2021.
Legal changes banning the denial of genocide, imposed by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, caused the Bosnian Serb leadership to threaten to pull out of the country’s tax system, judiciary and army.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
22. December 2021.
The trial opened of former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk, who is accused of involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
21. December 2021.
Former military policeman Adem Kostjerevac was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik area during the Bosnian war in 1992.
20. December 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar’s appeal against his 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in Visegrad in 1992.
20. December 2021.
The Bosnian state court confirmed an indictment charging ex-police chief Nedjeljko Popovic with committing a crime against Bosniak and Croat civilians in Mrkonjic Grad during the war in 1992.
16. December 2021.
Three members of the Ravna Gora Movement, a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation, were cleared of inciting ethnic and religious hatred at a uniform-clad rally in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad in 2019.
10. December 2021.
Goran Saric, former commander of the Special Brigade of Republika Srpska Police, and others suspects in the 1992 mass murder of 22 civilians in the Bijeljina area – all arrested on December 3 – have been released to house arrest, it has been confirmed.
7. December 2021.
A group of Bosnian Serbs – former wartime detainees and relatives of some of those still missing from the war – protested outside the Bosnian State Court over what they said was a lack of action concerning war crimes committed against Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2. December 2021.
The Bosnian court upheld the verdict convicting former reservist policeman Simo Stupar of involvement in illegally detaining, beating and killing Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1992.
29. November 2021.
Mendeljev Djuric and Petar Mitrovic, who were sentenced for the Srebrenica genocide, were examined before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina by way of the international legal assistance as defense witnesses at the trial for crimes in the village of Kravica conducted before the Higher Court in Belgrade. They denied having any knowledge of the crime in question.
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