The defence called for the acquittal of ex-policeman Milomir Milosevic, who is accused of war crimes in the village of Zaklopaca in the Milici municipality in May 1992, when more than 50 Bosniaks were killed.
The investigation of the murder of six men near the town of Velika Kladusa in 1994 has been bounced around between prosecutor’s offices for the past 17 years – and no one has yet been indicted.
The Bosnian state court confirmed an indictment charging wartime unit commander Miodrag Nikacevic with committing a crime against humanity for his involvement in persecuting Bosniaks in Foca in 1992.
Following a request by BIRN BiH for more transparency in the justice system, the State Prosecution has started publishing redacted factual descriptions from confirmed indictments on its website.
Malko Koroman, a wartime police chief, was acquitted of unlawfully detaining Bosniak civilians, some of whom were tortured and killed, in the town of Pale in 1992.
Villagers in Poljak, near Srebrenica, commemorated the 29th anniversary of an attack by Serb forces that left 21 people dead, including two children - for which no one has yet been prosecuted.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Jukic was cleared of treating Bosniak prisoners of war inhumanely by assaulting them at a detention facility in Zepce in 1993.
Sabahudin Kajdic was found guilty of involvement in persecuting Bosniak civilians, murders and forcible disappearances while serving with the Bosnian Serb Army in Prijedor during the war in 1992.
Former soldiers Dzevad Avdicevic, Ahmed Hadzajlic, Muharem Efendic and Izet Ikanovic have been charged with abusing, beating and killing Bosnian Serb Army prisoners of war in the Teocak area in 1993.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Garic’s sentence for persecuting Bosniaks from the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995 was reduced on appeal from 20 years to 17 years in prison.