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Female ex-fighter Elfeta Veseli and former Bosnian Army unit commander Sakib Halilovic called on the Bosnian court to acquit them of involvement in the killing of a 12-year-old Serb boy in 1992. In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court on Friday, defence lawyers for Sakib Halilovic and Elfeta Veseli urged the court not to convict them of involvement in the killing of the 12-year-old boy in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in the summer of 1992.

The Bosnian court upheld the two-year jail sentence given to former Croatian Defence Forces member Tonco Rajic for mistreating a civilian prisoner at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in August 1992. The third-instance chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday upheld Tonco Rajic’s two-year prison sentence for committing a war crime at the Dretelj detention camp.

Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted on appeal of committing crimes against humanity by allowing the abuse of prisoners in the Mostar area in 1993 and 1994. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday acquitted Mile Puljic, former commander of the Second Battalion of the Croatian Defence Council’s Second Brigade, of crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milenko Gojgolovic was charged with raping a Bosniak woman who he took from a detention camp in Vlasenica in July 1992. The state prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment charging Milenko Gojgolovic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, with raping a female prisoner in July 1992.

Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of police special units, was acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica in July 1995 and enabling others to abuse and kill them.

Bosnian Serb wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Sasa Cvetkovic guilty in a first-instance verdict of the murder of two elderly Roma civilians in the village of Kolonija, near Srebrenica, and the rape of two women in Bratunac, in June 1992.

Ranko Babic, Bratislav Bilbija and Djuro Adamovic went on trial in Sarajevo, accused of the torture, abuse and murder of Bosniak civilians in the village of Ljeskare near Prijedor in August 1992. The trial of former Bosnian Serb soldiers Ranko Babic, Bratislav Bilbija and Djuro Adamovic began at the Bosnian state court on Monday.

The former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps, Ramiz Drekovic, went on trial for committing a war crime by ordering artillery attacks on a Serb-populated village in the Konjic area in 1995. The trial of Ramiz Drekovic opened at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday, with the defendant accused of ordering artillery units of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps to carry out non-selective attacks on Serb civilians in the village of Kalinovik in the Konjic municipality between May 21 and June 7, 1995.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko was acquitted of taking three Bosniak civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in 1992 to do forced labour and then killing one of them.

The defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Mico Jurisic urged the court to acquit him of committing crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Prijedor area in 1992. In closing statements at the Bosnian state court on Monday, Mico Jurisic’s defence said he should be found not guilty of participating in the persecution of the non-Serb civilian population in the Prijedor area through crimes including murders, torture, the unlawful deprivation of liberty, taking people to detention camps and other inhumane acts.

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Bosnian Ex-Fighters Seek Acquittal over Serb Boy’s Killing

Bosnian Camp Guard Jailed for Abusing Wartime Prisoner

Bosnian Croat Commander Acquitted of Crimes Against Prisoners

Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Soldier with Rape of Detainee

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Srebrenica Crimes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Convicted of Wartime Murders, Rapes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Village Killings Trial Opens

Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Goes on Trial for Shelling Village

Bosnia Acquits Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Bosniak Prisoner

Bosnian Serb Seeks Acquittal in Prijedor Persecution Trial

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