Ahead of the appeal in the Hague court’s trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the widow of a man killed by Serb fighters operating in Bosnia in 1995 said she wants to see justice done.
Ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for killing one civilian and treating another inhumanely in Kljuc during the war in June 1992.
The Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting former reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk of involvement in the wartime killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
The Serbian judiciary has taken over the prosecution of Milorad Kotur, who is accused of involvement in killing over 50 Bosniaks and Croats, and Lazar Mutlak, who is charged with raping and sexually abusing a Bosniak woman.
Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned.
The state court upheld the verdict clearing Territorial Defence force ex-fighter Agan Ramic of committing a crime against humanity by hitting a minor in a village in the Konjic area during wartime in 1992.
The Bosnian prosecution charged 15 former guards with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained at the Military-Investigative Prison in Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, from 1992 to 1995.
The Bosnian prosecution charged former Croatian Defence Council fighter Robert Bresic with involvement in seizing and killing two Serb civilians, a father and son, in Maglaj during the war in 1992.
Six former guards were charged with committing a crime against humanity against illegally-detained prisoners at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska camps in the Prijedor area during wartime.
Former reservist policeman Goran Govedarica was sentenced to one year in prison for committing a war crime by assaulting a prisoner in the town of Gacko, but was acquitted of murdering another detainee.