Wartime Sexual Violence Archives

Ex-prisoners at the notorious Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina aren’t able to commemorate the anniversary of its closure because the former Yugoslav military site was privatised and then closed.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Ranko Radulovic, a Montenegrin citizen, pleaded not guilty to attacking Bosniaks, committing rape, taking hostages and destroying property in the Foca area of Bosnia during the war in 1992.

Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Radovan Veljovic on charges of committing rape and sexual abuse during the war in 1992 in the Foca area of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The district court of Eastern Sarajevo passed down a first instance verdict, acquitting Milenko Gojgolovic of charges that he raped and treated a Susica detention camp detainee in Vlasenica in an inhumane manner in the summer of 1992, it was confirmed to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH.

Bosnian prosecutors charged three ex-policemen with murders, sexual abuse and rapes in the Brcko area in 1992, including Ranko Cesic, who has already been convicted of other wartime crimes by the Hague Tribunal.

The Bosnian court reduced by one year the sentences handed down to Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic for raping a Bosniak woman near Foca in 1992, jailing them for seven years each.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Bozidar Perisic was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing two Bosniak men in a village near Rogatica during the war in 1992.

Records held by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia show how paramilitary units were set up and deployed to use violence to achieve political aims in the 1990s wars.

Ahead of the initial verdict in the last trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, BIRN looks back on the landmark judgments, controversies, successes and failures in the UN court’s mission to seek justice for the atrocities of the 1990s.

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A Belgrade court found former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dalibor Krstovic of raping a Bosniak woman who was being held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

Wartime Sexual Violence

Bosnian War Prisoners Unable to Commemorate Detention Camp Closure

Ex-Soldier Denies Hostage-Taking, Destruction, Rape in Bosnian War

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Arrested on Wartime Rape Charge

Milenko Gojgolovic Acquitted of Charges for Rape in Vlasenica

Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Policemen with Wartime Murders, Rapes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters’ Wartime Rape Sentences Reduced

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Jailed for Murdering Two Bosniaks

Hague Tribunal Archive Reveals Paramilitaries’ Violent Strategies

Hague Tribunal Leaves Uncertain Legacy as Last Trial Nears End

Serbia Convicts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier of Wartime Rape

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