Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic pleaded not guilty to wartime crimes against civilians including unlawful detention, torture and rape at a prison camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.
State Prosecution filed 15 war crime indictments against 39 persons this year, less than in 2020, including four persons who were previously convicted by the Hague Tribunal and State Court.
The trial opened of former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk, who is accused of involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
The Bosnian state court confirmed an indictment charging ex-police chief Nedjeljko Popovic with committing a crime against Bosniak and Croat civilians in Mrkonjic Grad during the war in 1992.
Bosnia's state prosecution has filed an indictment against Milomir Djuricic 'Djure', and Vukadin Spasojevic, also known as 'Mico' and 'Era', charging them with crimes against humanity in Bosnia's eastern Visegrad area.
NGO TRIAL International says some war crime victims who had their cases rejected have ended up in extreme poverty because of having to pay the costs of the proceeding to the entities they sued.
Former Bosnian Army soldier Mustafa Divjan was convicted of killing two Serb civilian prisoners in 1993, while Alija Gazibara was found guilty of violence against detainees.
In the summer of 1992, the bodies of 114 Bosniak and Croat civilians were found in two mass graves at a municipal dump and a cemetery in the town of Mostar, but decades on, no one has prosecuted for their murders.
A former inmate of a prison in the Brcko area of Bosnia in 1992 told the trial of an ex-soldier accusing of assaulting detainees that he did not see any of his fellow inmates being beaten or tortured.
Ex-prisoners at the notorious Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina aren’t able to commemorate the anniversary of its closure because the former Yugoslav military site was privatised and then closed.