The Bosnian court rejected Croatian Defence Council ex-fighter Mile Pazin’s appeal against his one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for mistreating a Bosniak civilian prisoner in the Stolac area in 1993.
Wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter Mile Pazin appealed against the verdict sentencing him to one-and-a-half years in prison for the inhumane treatment of a Bosniak civilian prisoner in the Stolac area in 1993.
The Bosnian prosecution called for the conviction of wartime fighters Mile Pazin and Vide Kresic, who are accused of physically and mentally abusing civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993.
Josip Kresic, a wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for crimes against civilian prisoners in the Stolac area in 1993, became the third defendant in the case to die before the final verdict.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Markovic, who was on trial for war crimes against civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993, has died.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against two former members of the Croatian Defense Council, charging them with crimes committed in Stolac.
Two former Croatian Defence Council fighters surrendered to the state prosecution after it announced they were under investigation for war crimes against civilians in the southern town of Stolac.
The start of the Mile Pazin, Ivica Markovic and Vide Kresic trial has been postponed due to a new indictment raised against one of the defendants. The defendants have been charged with crimes in the municipality of Stolac in 1993.