A Belgrade court sentenced Husein Mujanovic to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime.
A former inmate’s daughter testified that ex-soldier Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners, was a supervisor at a detention camp in the Brcko area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-serviceman Milan Dragisic was found guilty of killing one civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac during the Bosnian war in September 1992.
The Serbian war crimes prosecutor asked for a 15-year jail sentence for Husein Mujanovic, commander of a wartime prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo, for the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates.
Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners at a detention camp in Gornji Rahic in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Brcko area in 1992, pleaded not guilty as his trial opened in Belgrade.
Two convicted war criminals hope to be elected as MPs at next month’s polls in Serbia, while several other people who are wanted by the UN court or have been accused of wartime violations are standing for parliament.
Ahead of the anniversary of the abduction and killing of 20 passengers from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993, one victim’s son said he hopes that the bodies of those who are still missing will be discovered. Demir Licina, whose father Ilijaz was one of the passengers seized from a train by Bosnian […]
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Mico Jovicic became the first witness to testify that five fellow Serb ex-fighters were involved in the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci in Bosnia in 1993.
Mico Jovicic, a wartime volunteer fighter for Bosnian Serb forces, told Belgrade Higher Court that all five defendants on trial for the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia and Herzegovina were at the crime scenes when the offences were committed.
The Higher Court in Belgrade has refused to extradite Osman Osmanovic to Bosnia and Herzegovina as he remains under investigation in Serbia for war crimes.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an extradition request for war crimes suspect Osman Osmanovic, who was arrested in Serbia for allegedly assaulting and abusing captured Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992.
The state prosecution in Sarajevo asked the Bosnian Justice Ministry on Wednesday to send a request for Bosniak ex-fighter Osman Osmanovic’s extradition from Serbia.