Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic were found guilty of crimes including allowing Bosnian Serb fighters to assault prisoners and forcing inmates to have sex at the Uzamnica detention camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and military policemen were sentenced to a total of 36 years of prison for crimes against civilian detainees and prisoners of war held at a hotel in the town of Buzim in 1994-95.
Former Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence fighter Rade Grujic was convicted of committing a crime against humanity for raping a Bosniak woman who was being held captive in a house in the village of Liplje, near Zvornik, in 1992.
Samir Nukic was charged with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred for writing posts on Facebook insulting Croat children who were killed in an artillery attack in the town of Vitez during wartime in 1993.
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’ recent acquittals in Serbia.
The Bosnian court rejected a challenge to the verdict acquitting Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano of involvement in the illegal detention and killing of Bosniak civilians in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
Three wartime Serb fighters pleaded not guilty to committing a crime against humanity for participating in an attack that left 20 Bosniak civilians dead in the Vlasenica area in June 1992.
The Bosnian state court asked Interpol to issue international ‘red notices’ for the arrest of Dusan Milunic, Ilija Zoric and Zoran Stojnic, who were convicted under a first-instance verdict of attacking civilians in the village of Zecovi in 1992.
Former Security Minister Selmo Cikotic, who was a Bosnian Army officer during the war, was charged with failing to prevent the torture and murders of Croat military prisoners in Bugojno in 1993.