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The state prosecution called for former policemen Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura to be found guilty of committing war crimes in the Capljina area in July 1993. Prosecutor Stanko Blagic told the state court in Sarajevo in his closing statement in the trial on Wednesday that the allegations that the four men […]

Wartime prisoners marked the Day of Camp Inmates by gathering at former detention centres to commemorate those who died and to demand better treatment for those who survived.

A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has written to the Croatian authorities, appealing to them to extradite Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects to stand trial.

Nine former Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen went on trial for a series of charges related to the capture, abuse and murder of scores of Bosniak civilians near Prijedor in 1992. Slobodan Taranjac, Miodrag Glusac, Ranko Babic, Ranko Dosenovic, Marinko Prastalo, Rade Zekanovic, Zdravko Panic, Trivo Vukic and Milan Vukic went on trial on Monday at the state court in Sarajevo, accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise in the Prijedor area from July 27 to 30, 1992.

A former prisoner told the trial of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Azra Basic that he was assaulted and ridden like a horse by a female guard while in custody in 1992. Prosecution witness Stanimir Pijetlovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was detained on April 26, 1992 by Croatian Defence Council fighters and held in the Army House in Derventa, where he and other prisoners were abused.

Prosecutors asked the Hague Tribunal to increase the jail sentences of six Bosnian Croat leaders accused of wartime crimes in the unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna to a total of 220 years.

A former Bosnian Army soldier was jailed for 18 months and had his US citizenship revoked for lying to immigration officials about his role in crimes committed during the war.

Berislav Pusic, the head of the wartime Bosnian Croat prisoner exchange commission, appealed against his conviction, arguing he was not responsible for crimes against Bosniak detainees in 1993 and 1994. Berislav Pusic’s defence lawyer told the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Monday that his client was not responsible for […]

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Milos Krsmanovic was indicted for torturing and physically abusing Bosniak civilian detainees in the Rogatica area in 1992 and 1993. The Bosnian state prosecution filed a war crimes indictment on Monday alleging that Milos Krsmanovic tortured, physically abused and humiliated Bosniak civilians who were held at the Rasadnik detention camp and at other locations in Rogatica.

Former Croatian Defence Council deputy commander Milivoje Petkovic appealed at the Hague Tribunal against his 20-year prison sentence for wartime crimes against Bosniaks.

Detention Camps

Prosecution Demands Punishment for Capljina Ex-Policemen

Bosnian Ex-Prisoners Commemorate Wartime Camp Victims

Extradite War Suspects, Ex-UN Peacekeeper Urges Croatia

Bosnia Tries Nine Serbs for Capturing, Killing Bosniaks

Female Guard ‘Assaulted and Humiliated’ Derventa Prisoners

Prosecutors Demand Longer Sentences for Bosnian Croat Leaders

US Jails Bosnian Ex-Soldier for War Crimes Lies

Bosnian Croat Ex-Official Denies Mass Prisoner Abuses

Bosnian Serb Soldier Indicted for Rogatica Torture

Bosnian Croat Deputy Commander Denies Ethnic Cleansing

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