Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic, who was convicted of raping a woman during the war and was on trial again for involvement in kidnapping train passengers who were then killed, has died.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Vuk Ratkovic’s conviction for the multiple rape of a woman in Visegrad during the war in 1992 and 1993 was upheld on appeal.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Vuk Ratkovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for the repeated rape of a woman in Visegrad during the war in 1992 and 1993.
The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday found Vuk Ratkovic, a former member of the Visegrad Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, guilty of raping a woman three times in the period between June 1992 and January 1993.
In its closing statement, the prosecution urged the Bosnian state court to convict former soldier Vuk Ratkovic of torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime.
After beating and raping a woman in Visegrad during wartime in 1992, a Bosnian Serb soldier ordered her to make coffee, then offered her gold as a gift, the victim testified at his trial.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic - charged with torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime because she was married to a Bosniak - went on trial in Sarajevo.
The first prosecution witness at the trial of Jovan Tintor for crimes against humanity in the Vogosca area said the defendant threatened in spring 1992 that Bosniaks’ blood “will colour everything red”.
Statements by relatives of people kidnapped from a train in Strpci in February 1993 and later killed said they first heard of the abductions through the media.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of ten former Bosnian Serb soldiers, said he spoke to Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander Milan Lukic in an attempt to find his nephew. The nephew of the witness had been kidnapped from a train station in Strpci, Rudo, in February 1993.
Family members of victims kidnapped and killed in Strpci, Rudo, in February 1993, testified at the trial of ten former Bosnian Serb soldiers charged with their abduction and killing. At today’s trial, the family members of the victims recalled the last contact they had with their loved ones.