Former Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura pleaded not guilty to failing to punish subordinates who abused and shot civilian prisoners in the Gradiska area in 1992.
Six former Bosnian Serb Army military policemen failed to appear for the opening of their trial in Sarajevo for their alleged involvement in executing 78 Bosniak civilians in the Kljuc area in 1992.
The remains of the recently-exhumed victims of the Bosnian war were laid to rest at a funeral ceremony on the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha at the Kamicani Memorial Centre in Kozarac near Prijedor.
The decision by the UN court in The Hague last month to uphold the life sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic takes the number of life terms imposed for involvement in the Srebrenica genocide to five.
Boris Bosnjak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic, who were convicted of mistreating and abusing Bosniak and Croat civilian detainees held at a military barracks in Bileca in 1992, had their sentences reduced on appeal.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Bozidar Perisic was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing two Bosniak men in a village near Rogatica during the war in 1992.
The Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal filed by Zoran Babic against his cumulative 35-year sentence for crimes committed in Prijedor, concluding that his right to a fair defence had not been violated.
Campaigners for renaming a sports hall after handball player Goran Cengic – who perished trying to save his elderly neighbour in the war – are finally celebrating victory.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Senad Dzananovic to 11 and Edin Gadzo to five years in prison for crimes against Serb civilians detained in Alipasino Polje, Sarajevo – though they may appeal the verdict.
In a second-instance verdict, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced six defendants for crimes committed against Serb and Croat civilians in the Hadzici area to a total of 42 years in prison.