Josip Kresic, a wartime Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for crimes against civilian prisoners in the Stolac area in 1993, became the third defendant in the case to die before the final verdict.
Malko Koroman, a wartime police chief in Pale, went on trial for the unlawful arrest and detention of Bosniak civilians, some of whom were tortured and killed in 1992. The crimes against humanity trial of Malko Koroman, the wartime chief of the police’s Public Security Station in Pale who is now a deputy mayor, opened […]
Seven wartime prison officials are being retried for the abuse of Bosnian civilian and military detainees who were held in dire conditions at a jail in Ljubuski between 1993 and 1994.
The retrial of wartime prison officers Ivan Kraljevic, Mato Jelcic, Stojan Odak, Vice Bebek, Vinko Radisic, Slavko Skender and Dragan Milos, who are accused of abusing detainees at the Military-Investigative Prison in Ljubuski, opened at the Bosnian state court on Monday.
Over the past four years, more than two million euros have been dedicated to building memorials honouring military and civilian casualties of the Bosnian war - but most only commemorate victims from the dominant ethnic group in each area.
Over the past four years, more than two million euros have been dedicated to building memorials honouring military and civilian casualties of the Bosnian war – but most only commemorate victims from the dominant ethnic group in each area.
Bosniaks applauded the life sentence handed down in 2019 to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, but Serb politicians condemned it and analysts warned that each ethnic group still has its own version of the truth about the war.
BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling […]
The Bosnian prosecution said that four defendants accused of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak and Croat detainees at a former military barracks in Bileca in 1992 should be convicted.
The State Prosecution has filed an indictment against Marko Kovac, resident of Kragujevac, Serbia, charging him with crimes against humanity in the Foca area.
Five former Bosniak fighters went on trial for physically abusing captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers in the Visegrad, Gorazde and Rogatica areas between 1992 and 1995.
The trial of former Bosniak fighters Mustafa Stovrag, Camil Ramic, Mehmedalija Topalovic, Himzo Selimovic and Ramiz Micivoda, who are all accused of prisoner abuse during wartime, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday.