The state court reduced former Bosnian Serb special policemen Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric’s Srebrenica genocide sentences to 20 years each because the wrong criminal code was used at their trial.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the Goran Saric trial said he witnessed the murder of two Bosniak men on the road between Konjevic Polje and Bratunac.
The Bosnian state court rejected a request for the retrial of Mendeljev Djuric, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide in Srebrenica.
The driver for ex-police commander Goran Saric, accused of the Srebrenica genocide, said that he was with his boss on the day of the massacre but never saw him commit any crime.
The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduced the sentences of Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric to 32 and 28 years respectively for their roles in the Srebrenica genocide.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina calls on the Court to quash its verdict under which Nedjo Ikonic and Goran Markovic were acquitted of charges for genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995, while the Defence of Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric call for revocation of the part of the verdict that sentenced them for that crime.
During the two years of the trial, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sought to prove that Dusko Jevic, Mendeljev Djuric, Goran Markovic and Nedjo Ikonic committed genocide by participating in the forcible resettlement of Bosniaks and the killing of more than 1,000 men in Kravica, while the Defence believes that they were conducting legitimate police operations.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has requested that four men charged with genocide in Srebrenica be sentenced to a combined total of 115 years in prison.