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Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic is being retried for alleged crimes against humanity after initially being acquitted of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes in an attack on a village near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state court’s appeals chamber on Thursday began the retrial of Slavko Milovanovic, a former member of the reservist police force at the Public Security Station in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality, for alleged crimes against humanity.

Wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in a house that was set on fire in Visegrad in 1992. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday convicted Radomir Susnjar, alias Lalco, of involvement in wartime crimes in the Visegrad area in June 1992, including the murder of 26 civilians – one of them a two-day-old baby – who were locked inside a house that was then burned.

The prosecution called for the quashing of the verdict acquitting former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Nenad Perovic of assisting the rape of one woman and sexually abusing another in 1992. The prosecution on Monday urged the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court to quash the verdict acquitting Nenad Perovic of sexual abuse in the village of Dobrasina, near Rogatica, during wartime in 1992.

Former Bosnian Army soldier Elfeta Veseli appealed against the verdict sentencing her to ten years in prison for killing a 12-year-old Serb boy in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in 1992. Former Bosnian Army soldier Elfeta Veseli asked the appeals chamber of the state court in Sarajevo on Monday to quash the sentence convicting her of killing a Serb boy and hold a retrial.

Ibro Merkez, a police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde during wartime, was sentenced to two years in prison for unlawfully detaining and mistreating Serb civilians in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Ibro Merkez guilty, as the former chief of the police’s Public Security Station in Gorazde, of unlawfully detaining Serb civilians and treating them in inhumanely manner between the middle of July 1992 and August 4 the same year.

The Bosnian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Serbian citizen Nenad Bubalo, a former military policeman who is accused of participating in the murders of at least five Bosniak civilians in 1992. The Bosnian Justice Ministry issued a warrant on Monday for the arrest of Nenad Bubalo, the former deputy commander of the military police of the Bosnian Serb Army’s 15th Bihac Brigade, after he failed to appear for a plea hearing.

The trial of Gavrilo Stevic, a Bosnian Serb charged with going to the conflict zone in Ukraine as part of a pro-Russian separatist militia unit, opened at the Bosnian state court.

Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of Bosnian Serb police special units who was initially acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were then abused and killed in July 1995, has died before his final verdict.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic appealed against the verdict convicting him of detaining and killing five Bosniak civilians, all members of the same family, near Prijedor in 1992. Sretko Pavic, a former member of the Volarska Company with the Sixth Ljubija Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army, asked the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday to quash the sentence convicting him of wartime crimes or order a retrial.

The Bosnian court was urged to impose harsher sentences on Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor, two Bosnian Islamists who were jailed for a total of six-and-a-half years for planning terrorist attacks.

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia Retries Serb Ex-Policeman for Ordering Burning of Homes

Bosnian Serb Fighter Convicted of Mass Killing in Visegrad

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier’s Sexual Abuse Acquittal Challenged

Female Bosnian Soldier Appeals Conviction for Killing Boy

Bosnian Ex-Policeman Convicted of Mistreating Serb Detainees

Bosnia Issues Warrant for Serbian War Crime Suspect

Bosnian Citizen Tried for Joining Ukrainian Separatist Unit

Srebrenica Crimes Defendant Dies Before Final Verdict

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Appeals Conviction for Killing Family

Bosnian Prosecution Demands Higher Sentences for Terror Plotters

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