29. March 2022.
Four convicted war criminals have been involved in campaigning for the upcoming elections in Serbia, all of them supporting parties in the governing coalition, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights said in a new report.
War crimes
25. March 2022.
Two former policemen and three Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldiers were cleared of involvement in the murders of at least 57 Bosniak civilians in the village of Zaklopaca in the Milici municipality in 1992.
22. March 2022.
Predrag Bastah, a former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman, was convicted of involvement in the killings of 34 Bosniak civilians at Mracni Dol near Vlasenica during the Bosnian war.
21. March 2022.
The Federation Supreme Court upheld a verdict sentencing Bosnian Serb Army soldier Mile Kokot to two years and five months in prison for war crimes against civilians in Sanski Most in 1992.
18. March 2022.
A Serbian court sentenced Osman Osmanovic to five years in prison for abusing civilians and prisoners of war at the Rasadnik detention camp near Brcko in Bosnia in 1992.
17. March 2022.
The Bosnian court rejected former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Bozidar Perisic’s appeal against his ten-year prison sentence for killing two Bosniak men in a village near Rogatica during the war in 1992.
8. March 2022.
Bosnian Serb Army veterans installed a new plaque in Sarajevo that honours their former military commander Ratko Mladic, defying legislation that prohibits the honouring of war criminals.
28. February 2022.
An ex-detainee told the war crime trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic that female captives were taken from the Sase mine prison camp near Srebrenica in 1992 to be raped.
25. February 2022.
Mile Vujevic, Vukasin Draskovic, Gojko Stevanovic and Ljiljan Mitrovic were convicted of committing a crime against humanity for their involvement in killing 67 fleeing Bosniak civilians in Lokanj, near Zvornik, in 1992.
21. February 2022.
Former Bosnian Army military police officer Mehmed Alesevic was sentenced to five years in prison for seriously abusing civilian detainees in Buzim in 1994 and 1995.
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