The Bosnian state court sentenced a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, Josip Tolic, to ten years in prison for crimes against civilians in towns of Bosanski Brod and Odzak.
In todays hearing of the Goran Popovic trial, prosecutor Seid Marusic gave his closing statements. He said the existence of a widespread and systematic attack against the non-Serb population in Visegrad has been proven, and that Popovic deliberately undertook actions that were a part of that attack.
During evidentiary proceedings, the state prosecution presented documents regarding the status and treatments of captives at Silos, a former wartime detention facility in Hadzici.
The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared at a status conference that the testimonies of a certain number of witnesses from the first instance procedure would be heard again at the retrial of Veselko and Ivo Raguz. A new trial will begin on March 25.
The Bosnian Court of Appeals acquitted former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Savo Babic of charges of illegal arrests, abuse, forced disappearance and murder of Bosniak civilians in Vuk Karadzic School in Bratunac in May 1992.
A defence witness for Ratko Mladic told his trial that while Serbian forces committed crimes against Muslims and Croats in Priedor in 1992, they were not the work of the Bosnian Serb Army.