Person: Pusic Berislav Archives

Milivoj Petkovic, former president of the self-proclaimed Croat-led wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia, wrote a letter from jail to the UN court saying he accepts the verdict sentencing him to 20 years in prison for wartime crimes against Bosniaks.

The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic because he has not yet served two-thirds of his 25-year war crimes sentence.

The Hague Tribunal will rule this week on an appeal from six wartime Bosnian Croat officials who were convicted of involvement in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at establishing a ‘Greater Croatia’.

An economics professor, a karate expert, a TV producer - six ex-officials of the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet Herzeg-Bosnia, now awaiting their final verdicts in The Hague, were brought together by the 1990s conflict.

The Hague Tribunal delivers its verdict on six Bosnian Croat ex-officials next week - but the trial has already revealed how Croatia funded the self-proclaimed Herzeg-Bosnia statelet’s forces while they fought the Bosnian Army.

The Hague Tribunal rejected Croatia’s request to be involved in the appeal against the conviction of six Bosnian Croat wartime officials, thwarting Zagreb’s strategy to prove the innocence of 1990s President Franjo Tudjman.

Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic asked the Hague Tribunal to order a one-year break in his war crimes trial beause of the complexity of the allegations against him.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, is due to pronounce a verdict against Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojnic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoje Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic, who are charged with crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on May 29.

Families of members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, who were last seen alive in the Vranica building in Mostar are disappointed that no one has been successfully tried for the murder of their loved ones 18 years after they went missing.

Although the anniversary of the destruction of the Old Mostar Bridge is not officially marked in Bosnia, on Tuesday citizens observed the occasion by dropping lilies into the Neretva river that runs under the bridge.

Person: Pusic Berislav

Bosnian Croat Ex-Leader’s Jail Letter Expresses Regret for Crimes

UN Court Denies Bosnian Croat Wartime Leader Early Release

Bosnian Croats Face Judgment on ‘Greater Croatia’ Charges

Bosnian Croat Officials Brought Together by War

Trial Shows Croatian Money Fuelled Bosnian Croats’ War

Hague Rejects Croatia Bid to Clear Ex-Leader Tudjman

Karadzic Demands a Year to Prepare Closing Statement

Verdict against Six Herceg-Bosna Leaders on May 29

Local Justice: Families of Victims from Vranica Await Start of Retrial

Local Justice: Anniversary of Mostar Bridge Destruction Marked

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