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.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Ranko Radulovic, a Montenegrin citizen, pleaded not guilty to attacking Bosniaks, committing rape, taking hostages and destroying property in the Foca area of Bosnia during the war in 1992.
The Bosnian state court has outstanding international arrest warrants for 41 people accused of committing wartime crimes including genocide – although some of them are already being tried in Serbia and one has died.
Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Radovan Veljovic on charges of committing rape and sexual abuse during the war in 1992 in the Foca area of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wreaths were laid in memory 33 Bosnian Croat civilians, including a four-year-old girl, who were killed by Bosnian Army troops in the village of Grabovica in September 1993.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Boro Milojica’s 20-year sentence for his involvement in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992 has been upheld.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic was convicted of assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying, it’s likely that some cases will never see verdicts.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Goran Viskovic went on trial for crimes against humanity, including the killing of eight Bosniak detainees from a wartime detention camp near Vlasenica.