Ninety-one-year-old former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who served a sentence for war crimes, was admitted to hospital in Belgrade for treatment after becoming infected with the coronavirus.
The top international authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a three-month deadline for the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska to annul honours given to Radovan Karadzic and others convicted of war crimes.
A draft law that would have provided benefits to wartime Bosnian Serb politicians including several convicted war criminals and Hague Tribunal defendant Radovan Karadzic has been withdrawn.
If a new law on the rights of Republika Srprska representatives who served from 1991-1996 is adopted, three war crime convicts and a war crime suspect will receive payments from the budget of Republika Srpska.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Mico Stanisic, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, says that crimes against Bosniaks in Eastern Bosnia in 1992 were committed by paramilitary and parapolice forces from Serbia, most of whom were invited by Biljana Plavsic.
A witness for the Prosecution at the trial of Zemir Kovacevic said that on March 28, 1992, he learnt from Biljana Plavsic that there was an incident in Sijekovac (municipality of Bosanski Brod) in which several people were killed.
A witness for the Prosecution at the trial of Zemir Kovacevic said that on March 28, 1992, he learnt from Biljana Plavsic that there was an incident in Sijekovac (municipality of Bosanski Brod) in which several people were killed.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, a doctor from Bijeljina Milivoje Kicanovic denies the allegations that Serb forces deported Muslims from that town, claiming that they helped them leave.
The State Prosecution believes they have proven that Veselin Vlahovic known as Batko is guilty of all offences, as outlined in the indictment. They stated, furthermore, that even the highest sentence possible for these offences is not sufficient to punish Vlahovic for the reign of terror he brought to the Sarajevo neighborhoods of Grbavica, Vraca and Kovacici in 1992.
The witness for Radovan Karadzics defence denied that Bosniaks and Croats were expelled from the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Grbavica in the autumn of 1992.