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The prosecution appealed against the acquittal of former policeman Slavko Milovanovic, who was cleared of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack on the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution launched an appeal on Tuesday calling for the verdict which cleared Slavko Milovanovic of committing crimes against humanity in the village of Resagici in May 1992 to be quashed and a retrial ordered.

Bosnian Serb wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic appealed 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. Sasa Cvetkovic’s defence on Monday launched an appeal at the Bosnian state court against the verdict that convicted the wartime fighter of killing two elderly Roma women in May 1992 and raping two Bosniaks, one of them a minor, in June 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Zeljko Novakovic will be tried for crimes against humanity for participating in the murders, torture and persecution of Bosniak civilians in villages in the Bosanski Novi area in 1992. The Bosnian state court announced on Friday that it has confirmed an indictment charging Zeljko Novakovic with committing crimes against humanity during attacks on several Bosniak-populated villages in the north-western Bosanski Novi area between early May and September 1992.

The state prosecution charged former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic with crimes including rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area during the war in 1992. The Bosnian prosecution on Thursday charged Radovan Paprica, alias Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, with committing crimes against humanity in Foca in eastern Bosnia in 1992 while they were members of the Bosnian Serb Army.

Enver Buza, the former commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to discipline his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in the village of Uzdol in 1993. The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday found Enver Buza, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Independent Prozor Battalion, guilty of contravening provisions of international humanitarian law on the protection of civilians during wartime, and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

Kahro Vejzovic’s defence appealed to the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday to revise the verdict convicting him of torturing captured Serb civilians in Stupari between June and September 1992 and acquit him of all the charges.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar, who is on trial for killing 57 Bosniaks in a house that was set on fire in Visegrad in 1992, asked for an acquittal, telling the court he was innocent.

After repeated delays caused by another defendant’s health problems, the trial of Miroslav Kraljevic, the Serb mayor of the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, who is accused of wartime crimes against Bosniak civilians, will start next month.

Eight Bosniaks are being retried for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area during wartime.

The defence lawyer for Ibro Merkez, a wartime police commander in Gorazde on trial for involvement in unlawfully detaining, abusing and killing Serb civilians in 1992, said he should be acquitted.

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman’s Persecution Acquittal Challenged

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Appeals Murder, Rape Conviction

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Faces Trial for Attacks on Villages

Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Soldiers with Crimes Against Humanity

Bosnian Army Ex-Officer Convicted over Croat Civilians’ Killings

Bosniak Ex-Policeman Appeals Prisoner Torture Conviction

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter ‘Didn’t Kill’ Bosniaks in Burning House

Bosnian Mayor’s Long-Delayed War Crimes Trial to Begin

Bosnia Retries Eight for Wartime Jail Camp Abuses

Bosnian Ex-Police Chief Asks for War Crimes Acquittal

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