The sentence handed down to former Croatian Defence Council brigade commander Mensur Djakic for not punishing the killers of three Serb captives in the Brcko District in 1992 was increased on appeal from two to eight years in jail.
The prosecution argued that the two-year sentence given to former Croatian Defence Council brigade commander Mensur Djakic for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the Brcko District in 1992 was below the legal minimum.
Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Monday found Mensur Djakic guilty of having watched a member of the Croatian Defence Council battalion that he commanded murdering three captured Serbs and then failing to take measures to punish the killer.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighters Mensur Djakic and Begzad Kajtazi were charged with committing crimes against Serb civilians in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko municipality in 1992.
The state prosecution filed an indictment on Monday accusing Kajtazi of killing two women and Djakic of failing to prevent the killings of three prisoners during an attack on the village of Bukvik in September 1992.
Begzad Kajtazi and Semsudin Pekic have been arrested as per an arrest warrant issued by the state prosecution. They are suspected of war crimes in the Bukvik and Brcko area.
Police in the Brcko District arrested former Bosnian Croat military commander Mensur Djakic on suspicion that he committed war crimes against Serb prisoners of war in 1992.