23. December 2021.
Zdravko Samardzija, a former co-commander of a special police unit, is accused of involvement in the persecution, unlawful detention and killing of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Kotor Varos area during wartime.
War crimes
22. December 2021.
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.
21. December 2021.
Former military policeman Adem Kostjerevac was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik area during the Bosnian war in 1992.
21. December 2021.
Two former Bosnian Serb Army unit commanders were arrested for their alleged involvement in an attack on the village of Lozje in the Gorazde area that left some 30 people dead in 1992.
20. December 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar’s appeal against his 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in Visegrad in 1992.
20. December 2021.
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.
17. December 2021.
Investigators in Nevesinje, a city in the country’s Herzegovina region, are still 20 children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war, the youngest of whom was just seven days old and had no name.
16. December 2021.
Police arrested eight former Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen suspected of involvement in war crimes in the village of Zijemlje near Nevesinje in 1992, where almost 100 Bosniaks were killed.
15. December 2021.
BIRN opened an exhibition in Sarajevo and published a new book commemorating the journalists and media workers who were killed during and just after the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.
10. December 2021.
Goran Saric, former commander of the Special Brigade of Republika Srpska Police, and others suspects in the 1992 mass murder of 22 civilians in the Bijeljina area – all arrested on December 3 – have been released to house arrest, it has been confirmed.
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