In at least 12 cases, Bosnian state court and prosecution employees are related to each other a situation which could create conflicts of interest, experts say.
Testifying against former members of the Mice paramilitary formation, state prosecution witness Dragomir Markovic said he filed criminal charges against the group in 1992. The charges accused the group of the murder of approximately thirty civilians, as well as rape and robbery.
The Bosnian state prosecution has requested that custody measures be extended for five persons suspected of kidnapping and killing passengers travelling by train in Strpci during the Bosnian war. The defense teams have requested that the court order prohibitive measures instead.
Almost five years after being convicted for the Srebrenica genocide, a former Bosnian Serb army member whose verdict was quashed because of the wrong application of law at his trial, has told the Bosnian court he was innocent.