Three days after the flight of Dusan Jankovic, the State Court says that situations like this one point to the weaknesses of legal provisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The State Court has requested the issuance of a red Interpol warrant and an arrest warrant against Dusan Jankovic, former policeman from Prijedor, who was sentenced under a first instance verdict to 27 years in prison for his participation in crimes committed at Koricanske stijene.
In their closing arguments, indictees Zoran Babic, Milorad Radakovic and Milorad Skrbic called on the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to acquit them of the charges that they participated in the murder of about 200 men at Koricanske stijene.
Protected Prosecution witness KO18, who survived the shooting at Koricanske stijene in August 1992, recognized indictee Skrbic in the courtroom, saying he was one of the soldiers dressed in blue camouflage uniforms.
The trial of five indictees charged with crimes committed at Koricanske stijene in August 1992 has been postponed after a protected Prosecution witness failed to appear in the courtroom.
The site of an infamous massacre of 200 men in 1992 is to be reexamined. But after 18 years of waiting, relatives fear they may never recover the remains of their loved ones.
Asima Memics son, Asmir, boarded a bus from Prijedor to Travniik as part of an exchange in July 1992. He never arrived, and only a single limb has ever been recovered.
Sulejman Kahrimanovic survived the shooting at Koricanske stijene in August 1992. He shares with BIRN-Justice Report his recollections of the day when he lost his son Mehmed and the days he spent in detention after the shooting.