The state court upheld the acquittal of Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, clearing him of involvement in persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in 1992.
Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was cleared of participation in a joint criminal enterprise to persecute Bosniaks and Croats.
A witness told the trial of Brcko’s wartime president, Djordje Ristanic, that the defendant came to free a prisoner from a military barracks in the town in 1992.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Brcko, a witness said he heard Djordje Ristanic telling someone he had come to help him get out of the military barracks, where he was detained.
At the trial of Brcko’s top wartime official, a witness said that in May 1992, people were taken from the Luka detention camp in the town and killed, but the defendant saved him.
Testifying at the trial of five ex-policemen for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said a Bosnian Serb soldier killed around ten men in a warehouse in Konjevic Polje in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Rodoljub Milanovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday that a uniformed soldier shot the Bosniaks dead in Konjevic Polje on July 12, 1995.
A prosecution witness at the trial of Brcko’s wartime presidency chief Djordje Ristanic said prisoners were beaten and killed while he was detained in April 1992, and that he saw the defendant at one detention site.
An ex-policeman told the trial of Djordje Ristanic, former head of the wartime presidency of the Brcko municipality, that he heard two men from the town being beaten at a Yugoslav People’s Army barracks.
The first witness at the trial of Djordje Ristanic, wartime leader of Brcko in northern Bosnia, testified that prospects for peace were ruined by a deadly blast destroying the town bridge in April 1992.
The trial of Djordje Ristanic began with a reading of the indictment and the presentation of the state prosecution’s introductory statement. Ristanic has been charged with crimes against humanity in the municipality of Brcko in 1992.