Former Bosnian Army military police officer Mehmed Alesevic was sentenced to five years in prison for seriously abusing civilian detainees in Buzim in 1994 and 1995.
A prosecution witness claimed that military policeman Mehmed Alesevic, who is on trial for war crimes, was present while other soldiers beat him up at a motel in Buzim in 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Mehmed Alesevic at the state court on Monday, prosecution witness Safet Dzaferovic said that the defendant was there when he was beaten, although he did not participate in the assault.
At the trial of the former head of the Serb Crisis Committee in the Vogosca municipality, a witness said that the defendant Jovan Tintor threatened and hit him.
At the trial of the former head of the Serb Crisis Committee in the Vogosca municipality, a witness said the village of Svrake came under attack and then a death threat allegedly arrived from the defendant.
Former Bosnian Army officer Enver Buza went on trial over the killings of 27 Croat civilians - the youngest aged ten - by his troops in the Prozor municipality in 1993.
Buza, the former commander of Bosnian Army’s Prozor Independent Battalion, went on trial on Monday at the state court in Sarajevo.
The trial of eight former members of the Bosnian Army began with a reading of the indictment and the presentation of the state prosecution’s introductory statement. The defendants have been charged with committing crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the Buzim area.
Mehmed Alesevic, charged with crimes in Buzim, failed to appear at a status conference held today before the state court. According to the defense, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Slovenia due to his poor mental health.
A status conference in the Mehmed Alesevic case scheduled at the Bosnian state court was postponed due to the failure of the defendant to appear in court. Alesevic has been charged with crimes in Buzim.
The first hearing in the trial of eight defendants charged with the torture and abuse of detained civilians and prisoners of war in Buzim has been scheduled for December 22.
The Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment against Zijad Nanic, Esad Kudelic, Vahid Bajraktarevic, Senad Salkic, Hasan Mustafic, Mehmed Alesevic, Nedzad Bapic and Samir Isakovic. The defendants have been charged with war crimes in Buzim.