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Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted on appeal of committing crimes against humanity by allowing the abuse of prisoners in the Mostar area in 1993 and 1994. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday acquitted Mile Puljic, former commander of the Second Battalion of the Croatian Defence Council’s Second Brigade, of crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko was acquitted of taking three Bosniak civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in 1992 to do forced labour and then killing one of them.

The acquittal of former policeman Kahro Vejzovic, who was cleared of physically assaulting Bosnian Serb civilians in the village of Stupari in 1992, was partially overturned on appeal and a retrial ordered.

The verdict acquitting former Croatian Defence Council commander Mile Puljic, who was cleared of crimes against prisoners in Mostar in 1993 and 1994, was quashed and a retrial ordered.

Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ for the arrest of Zoran Stupar, one of four former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with crimes against humanity over attacks on Bosniak villages in the Vlasenica area of eastern Bosnia in 1992. Interpol has issued a "red notice", the closest mechanism to an international arrest warrant, for Zoran Stupar, a former member of the Public Security Station in Vlasenica in eastern Bosnia, after he failed to respond to court summons.

The state court in Sarajevo confirmed the acquittals of Bosnian Serb ex-soldiers Rade Vlasenko, Drago Koncar and Milan Krupljanin of killing Bosniaks in Prijedor in 1992. The Bosnian state court’s appeals chamber on Thursday upheld last year’s verdict finding Rade Vlasenko, Drago Koncar and Milan Krupljanin not guilty of killing two Bosniaks - Rajifa Memic and her mother, Radifa Kurtovic - in the Barakovac neighbourhood in Prijedor in June 1992.

The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army officer Dane Lukajic, accused of involvement in violence against prisoners of war detained at the Manjaca camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, opened in Zagreb.

Predrag Lazetic, who was a member of the White Eagles paramilitary group and a Bosnian Serb Army soldier, was charged with mistreating 11 Bosniak prisoners in Gacko in June 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Friday charging Predrag Lazetic with mistreating 11 Bosniaks who were being illegally detained in the town of Gacko in June 1992.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Zeljko Maric was arrested on suspicion of war crimes against captured Bosniak civilians and Bosnian Army soldiers in the Vares area in 1993. Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Zeljko Maric, alias Ninja, in the Capljina area on Thursday.

Four former members of the Bosnian army were jailed on Tuesday for a combined total of 27 years for crimes against Bosnian Croat civilians in the village of Kruscica, near Vitez, during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Detention Camps

Bosnian Croat Commander Acquitted of Crimes Against Prisoners

Bosnia Acquits Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Bosniak Prisoner

Bosnian Court Quashes Assault Acquittal of Bosniak Policeman

Bosnian Croat Officer’s Crimes Against Humanity Acquittal Quashed

Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter

Bosnian Court Upholds Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Acquittals

Bosnian Serb Ex-Officer Goes on Trial in Croatia

Bosnia Indicts Serb ‘White Eagles’ Paramilitary

Bosnia Arrests Croat Ex-Fighter for Prisoner Abuse

Four Jailed for Crimes Against Bosnian Croat Captives

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