Proceedings against Marinko Sunjic, a former Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for the illegal detention, persecution and abuse of Bosniak civilian prisoners in Mostar in 1992 and 1993, were halted because of his death.
Almin Djelilovic was 21 when he was seized by Bosnian Serb forces and held in detention camps where he was beaten up and forced to work on the frontlines, carry corpses and loot houses - trying all the while just to survive.
A court in the city of Split convicted two former Bosnian Croat fighters of committing war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war who were held in detention camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993.
Croatian media reported that Split county court found former Croatian Defence Council fighters Marinko Maric and Zeljko Rodin guilty of war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war held at detention camps in the Western Herzegovina area from July to September 1993.
Prosecutors in Belgrade charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war held at the Rasadnik prison camp in Brcko in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution told BIRN that it has charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war at […]
In the first of BIRN Bosnia’s Forgotten Victims series, Bosniaks who survived the execution of prisoners on a bridge near Doboj in 1992 express outrage that no one has yet been convicted of the shootings.
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching a campaign entitled ‘Forgotten Victims’, aimed at highlighting the victims of war crimes for which no one has yet been convicted under final verdicts. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday begins its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign, which intends to enable victims of unprosecuted war crimes and their families to speak […]
Miladin Trifunovic, the wartime commander of the Vogosca Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, went on trial for committing crimes against humanity in the Vogosca and Ilijas area in 1992. Miladin Trifunovic went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday, accused of allowing commanders of units subordinate to him to issue orders to […]
Lawyers for former camp guards accused of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak and Croat detainees at a former military barracks in Bileca in 1992 urged the Bosnian state court to acquit them.