25. July 2019.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Markovic, who was on trial for war crimes against civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993, has died.
Detention Camps
4. July 2019.
The prosecution urged the Bosnian state court to convict former local police chiefs Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric of unlawfully detaining, abusing and killing Serb civilians in Gorazde in 1992 and 1993.
In its closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Thursday, the prosecution said it had proved that former police officers Ibro Merkez, Predrag Bogunic and Esef Huric were guilty of unlawful detention, murder, inhumane treatment and the deprivation of the right to a fair trial between July 1992 and February 1993.
25. June 2019.
Eight former fighters went on trial for wartime crimes against Serb civilians who were unlawfully detained and allegedly tortured and sexually abused in the Lukavac area in 1992.
The trial of Zijad Srabovic, Refik Morankic, Ahmet Bajric, Abid Arapcic, Senaid Cosic, Pasaga Cajic, Samir Dzambic and Mirsad Zilic, who are charged with the inhumane treatment, torture and murder of civilians detained in the city of Lukavac and nearby Modrac from June to October 1992, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
20. June 2019.
Eight Bosniaks launched an appeal against their convictions for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilians who were illegally held in wartime detention camps in the Hadzici area.
6. June 2019.
Four former Bosnian Army soldiers appealed against their convictions for crimes against Bosnian Croat civilians at a detention facility in the village of Kruscica, near Vitez in 1993.
Defence lawyers for Bosniak ex-soldiers Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal and Hazim Petkovic appealed at the Bosnian state court on Thursday to have the verdict convicting them overturned, or a retrial held.
7. May 2019.
Thousands of Bosnians who suffered in wartime detention camps still receive no assistance from the authorities because the country’s state-level law on torture victims is being obstructed by an ethnically-based political dispute.
23. April 2019.
Five former Croatian Defence Council military policemen launched an appeal against their convictions for mistreating Bosniak prisoners at the Ljubuski detention camp during the Bosnian war.
15. April 2019.
Atif Dudakovic, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, went on trial in Sarajevo alongside 16 of his soldiers for wartime crimes including over 300 killings and the destruction of Serb Orthodox churches.
1. April 2019.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Alminko Islamovic was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for inhumanely treating and robbing Serb civilians in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Monday found Alminko Islamovic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council’s military police squad, guilty of the inhumane treatment of two Serbs in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992, and of taking their property.
28. March 2019.
The Bosnian court upheld the two-year jail sentence given to former Croatian Defence Forces member Tonco Rajic for mistreating a civilian prisoner at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in August 1992.
The third-instance chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday upheld Tonco Rajic’s two-year prison sentence for committing a war crime at the Dretelj detention camp.
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