Genocide in BiH Archives

In July 1995, after Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, 18-year-old H.T. was raped at a battery factory in nearby Potocari. It was 40 days she had given birth, and she was still bleeding. Her rapist knocked her unconscious before sexually assaulting her.

Mourners gathered to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres with a ceremony at which the bodies of 175 victims who were identified over the past year were buried.

Thirty Bosnian Serbs have so far been jailed for a total of 568 years for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica 19 years ago.

Former special policeman Zeljko Ivanovic, who guarded a warehouse where Bosniaks were massacred, was given the maximum sentence of 20 years for assisting the Srebrenica genocide.

Five former Bosnian Serb policemen were given reduced sentences of 20 years each for aiding genocide in Srebrenica following a retrial after their previous convictions were annulled.

This year, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 38 persons for war crimes to a total of 640 years and six months in prison.

Zdravko Tolimir, a close wartime aide to the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, has been found guilty of the Srebenica genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The trial of Ratko Mladic at The Hague resumed with the presentation of evidence on the murders of Bosniaks and Croats, which, according to the indictment, were committed by forces under Mladic’s command across Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer of 1992. Witness for the Prosecution, Safet Taci described how, in late July 1992, he was a witness to the murder of around 150 prisoners in the Keraterm camp near Prijedor.

At the trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, the defence completed their cross examination of the protected witness, RM-010, who survived the execution of the Bosniaks in the village of Biljani near Kljuc in July 1992. Maldic’s lawyer, Miodrag Stojanovic, dedicated the majority of his examination to the events which preceded the crime, including the attack by Bosniak forces on the column of the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA, and Serb police in the vicinity of Kljuc.

At the trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, the prosecution played a recording of his order to shell the Sarajevo neighbourhoods which did not have many Serb residents.

Genocide in BiH

Srebrenica Rape Victim Testimony: A pain that will stay with me

Srebrenica Marks Genocide Anniversary with Mass Burial

Genocide Convicts Serving 500 Years

Bosnian Serb Policeman Jailed for Srebrenica Genocide

Bosnia Cuts Srebrenica Genocide Convicts Sentences

More than 600 Years in Prison for War Crimes

ICTY: Tolimir Found Guilty of Srebrenica Genocide

Mladic: Mass Murders in Keraterm

Mladic: Tragic Events in Biljani

Mladic: ‘Mind-blowing’ Shelling of Sarajevo

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