As the trial of Mladenko Vrtunic continues before the Cantonal Court in Bihac, Defence witness Milutin Babic says that the indictee is an innocent man held in prison.
As the trial of Mladenko Vrtunic continues before the Cantonal Court in Bihac, Defence witness Milutin Babic says that the indictee is an innocent man held in prison.
As decided at a status conference held before the Cantonal Court in Bihac, the first Defence witness of Mladenko Vrtunic, who is charged with crimes in the Kljuc area, is due to testify on June 12.
The Bihac Cantonal Court accepts guilt admission agreements reached with Predrag Bajic and Sinisa Babic and sentences them to a total of 20 years in prison for war crimes in Kljuc.
The Bihac Cantonal Court pronounces Slobodan Dragic guilty of crimes against the civilian population in Kljuc and sentences him to five years in prison.
Slobodan Dragic, who is charged with crimes in Kljuc, reaches a guilt admission agreement, so the Trial Chamber of the Cantonal Court in Bihac separates his case from the case against the four other indictees.
At the trial of five former Bosnian Serb troops for wartime killings and rapes near Kljuc, witnesses testified that two women were viciously murdered in their village home.
A mother and son testified how Bosnian Serb fighters burst into their house near Kljuc in 1992, opened fire and abducted one of their relatives, who was later found dead.
Testifying for the Cantonal Prosecution in Bihac, witness Ale Strkunic says that indictees Mladenko Vrtunic and Predrag Bajic, as well as Zeljko Budimir, entered his house in the Kljuc area, killed his wife and mother-in-law and physically abused him on November 21, 1992.