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The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an indictment against seven former members of the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, who are suspected of persecution and murder of at least 48 Bosniaks committed in the village of Jusici, near Zvornik, during 1992. The defendants include Pero Radic, also known as Jarac [he-goat], Bozo Vidovic, Petko Tomic, alias Gavran and Crni Gavran [raven and black raven], Branko Studen, Dusan Spasojevic, known as Sifra [passcode], Vlado Ristanovic, alias Tosanov, and Milan Mijic, also known as Miso.

The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has increased the sentence against Elfeta Veseli for the murder of a 12-year-old boy in the Zvornik area in 1992 from ten to 13 years in prison.

The transfer of less serious war crimes cases from Bosnia’s state-level prosecution to lower-level prosecutors was supposed to speed up the processing of major cases - but plans to make this happen have not been fulfilled.

Five former Bosniak fighters went on trial for physically abusing captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers in the Visegrad, Gorazde and Rogatica areas between 1992 and 1995. The trial of former Bosniak fighters Mustafa Stovrag, Camil Ramic, Mehmedalija Topalovic, Himzo Selimovic and Ramiz Micivoda, who are all accused of prisoner abuse during wartime, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday.

Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic was acquitted of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack by Bosnian Serb forces on a village near Srebrenica in May 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday acquitted former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic of committing a crime against humanity in the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity including rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area during the war in 1992. Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on Wednesday to crimes including rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area between early April 1992 and late March 1993.

The Bosnian prosecution said former reservist policeman Mico Jurisic, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for committing crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Prijedor area in 1992, deserved a tougher punishment.

The Bosnian court rejected wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the verdict sentencing Sasa Cvetkovic to 12 years in prison for killing two elderly Roma women in May 1992 and raping two Bosniaks, one of them a minor, in June 1992.

The Bosnian prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting former policemen Jadranko Saran, Samir Sabic and Zijad Kadic of war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in Bosanska Krupa in 1995 and 1996. The Bosnian prosecution on Tuesday appealed against the first-instance verdict acquitting former policemen Jadranko Saran, Samir Sabic and Zijad Kadic of unlawfully detaining civilians, as well as murder and inhumane treatment at several detention facilities in Bosanska Krupa between September 1995 and July 1996.

The Bosnian prosecution called for a retrial in the case of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica, who was convicted of killings in the Prijedor area in 1992, and another ex-soldier who was acquitted.

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Indictment Charging Seven Persons with Zvornik Crimes Filed

Sentence against Elfeta Veseli for Murder of a Boy Increased

Bosnian Prosecutors Struggle to Tackle Backlog of War Cases

Bosniak Ex-Fighters Tried for Assaulting Serb Prisoners

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Burning Homes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Plead Innocent to Wartime Rape

Bosnian Prosecutor Demands Tougher Punishment for Serb Policeman

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Murder, Rape Conviction Upheld

War Crimes Acquittals of Bosnian Ex-Policemen Challenged

Verdict Convicting Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier of Killings Challenged

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