The prosecution asked the court to convict Radovan Veljovic of committing a crime against humanity for raping a woman during a campaign of violence by Bosnian Serb forces in the Foca area in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb military policeman Momcilo Tesic was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in the shooting of 17 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
The state court confirmed former Bosnian Serb soldier Cvijan Tomanic’s seven-year sentence for his involvement in beating and killing one Bosniak civilian and assaulting others in the Zvornik area in 1992.
The Bosnian state court has upheld a verdict acquitting five former Bosnian Serb police officers of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995 due to lack of evidence.
Ejup Ganic, a Bosniak former political leader who was a member of Bosnia’s presidency during the war, will go on trial next month for his alleged role in a deadly attack on Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo in 1992.
Families of Bosnian Serb war victims have been appalled to learn that Sakib Mahmuljin is not undergoing a prison sentence for war crimes but is in Turkey receiving medical treatment.
The prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav military prisoners in 1992.
The Bosnian state court confirmed former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac’s seven-year prison sentence for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik municipality during the war in 1992.
Predrag Kujundzic, the wartime commander of the Predini Vukovi (Predo’s Wolves) unit, who was serving a 17-year sentence for the persecution, rape and unlawful detention of civilians, died in hospital in Doboj in Bosnia.
The trial of five former members of the Military Police of the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, for crimes committed in the Rogatica in 1995, began with reading of the indictment.