12. November 2024.
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour – never faced court.
Detention Camps
4. April 2024.
Participants agree transitional judice is a priority for the EU and feelings of ‘fatigue’ must not get in the way.
19. March 2024.
Former inmates of a Bosnian Croat-run Heliodrom detention camp near Mostar marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the dissolution of the facility by paying tribute to prisoners who were killed and sending out a message of peace.
8. March 2024.
Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic were found guilty of crimes including allowing Bosnian Serb fighters to assault prisoners and forcing inmates to have sex at the Uzamnica detention camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.
4. March 2024.
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and military policemen were sentenced to a total of 36 years of prison for crimes against civilian detainees and prisoners of war held at a hotel in the town of Buzim in 1994-95.
18. January 2024.
Former Security Minister Selmo Cikotic, who was a Bosnian Army officer during the war, was charged with failing to prevent the torture and murders of Croat military prisoners in Bugojno in 1993.
28. December 2023.
The 11 suspects were charged with committing crimes against humanity in 1992 for their involvement in the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of around 700 Bosniak men and boys, some of whom were killed.
27. November 2023.
Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djuric, who were police officers in the town of Teslic during the war, were cleared of involvement in the illegal detention and killing of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.
14. November 2023.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army brigade commander Miladin Trifunovic was acquitted of ordering detained Bosniak civilians to be used as forced labour on the frontlines in the Vogosca area during wartime in 1992.
10. November 2023.
Five members of Bosniak-led military and police forces told the Bosnian court that they deny systematically abusing and torturing Serb prisoners at a detention facility in the town of Visoko in 1992.
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