Person: Stanisic Jovica

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31. May 2018.
Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s lawyer told the UN court that the service had nothing to do with wartime violence in Bosnian municipalities which Serb forces took over in spring 1992. Franko Simatovic’s defence lawyer told the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that the Serbian State Security Service “had no connection with municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly Doboj, in terms of sending manpower or equipment” in spring 1992 when crimes were committed.

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29. May 2018.
An ex-member of the Red Berets unit told the retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the unit persecuted and murdered Bosniaks in the Doboj area in 1992. A protected prosecution witness told Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s retrial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that the Red Berets unit expelled, killed and tortured Bosniaks in and around Doboj in Bosnia in May 1992.

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10. May 2018.
Testifying at the Hague trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a Serbian ex-policeman admitted personally setting houses on fire in a Bosniak village in 1993. Testifying as a protected prosecution witness, the former Serbian policeman told Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that he was involved in a “clean-up” operation in villages near the small town of Skelani in eastern Bosnia in March 1993, when houses were torched.

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28. March 2018.
A prosecution witness told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serbian Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniaks and Croat captives in the town of Doboj in 1992. Prosecution witness Edin Hadzovic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniak and Croat captives in Doboj on July 12, 1992.