Person: Smajlovic Mira Archives

With several thousand signatures, as well as with other ways of supporting the campaign Stop Censorship on War Crimes, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) succeeded in encouraging the authorities to admit that anonymisation cannot be applied to serious crimes, including war crimes.

As the trial for crimes in Prijedor continues, Velemir Djurics Defence witness says that the indictee, he and other colleagues could leave an observation post in Benkovac, which was about 20 kilometres away from Prijedor, towards the end of July 1992.

The trial for crimes in Prijedor has been postponed until December 23 due to indictee Zoran Babics health condition.

Testifying in his defence about crimes in Prijedor, indictee Dragomir Soldat says that, on the day when crimes were committed in Carakovo village he drove his cousin to a bus station, as she was supposed to travel to Belgrade, adding that nothing unusual happened in the village the following day.

As the trial for crimes in Zenica continues, a State Prosecution witness says that she was detained in a house together with other civilians and that men were called out, taken away and killed, adding that indictee Vehid Subotic was there as well.

Testifying in defence of Dragomir Soldat at the trial for crimes in Carakovo village, near Prijedor, a witness says that the indictee drove her to a bus station in Prijedor so that she could travel to Belgrade.

Former local Serb police chief Goran Saric was jailed for 14 years for crimes against Bosniak civilians who were taken prisoner in the Sarajevo settlement of Nahorevo in 1992.

Ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic, on trial for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992, testified that he did not rape a Muslim woman but actually protected her from other men.

As the trial for crimes in Prijedor continues, a Bosnian State Prosecution witness says that defendant Zoran Babic must have been present during the "cleansing" of Carakovo village in July 1992.

A witness told the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters how he survived being shot during the execution of Bosniak villagers at a mosque in Carakovo near Prijedor in 1992.

Person: Smajlovic Mira

Struggle for Public Justice and Truth

Duties on Observation Post

Trial Postponed Due to Indictees Illness

Wars Pass but People Stay

A Man with a Glass Eye

Alibi and Discrediting

Sarajevo Police Chief Jailed For War Crimes

Bosnian Serb Fighter Protector Not Rapist

Witnesses Recall Bosnian Village Killings

Bosniak Survived Serb Mass Execution at Mosque

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