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.
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.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Mirsad Menzilovic, who was sentenced to six years in prison for raping a minor in Sarajevo in 1993.
Nine months after Adem Kostjerevac was extradited from the US, the Bosnian court threw out charges against the former Bosnian Army military policeman who was accused of raping a Serb woman during the war in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic, who was convicted of raping a woman during the war and was on trial again for involvement in kidnapping train passengers who were then killed, has died.
Mirsada Tursunovic, who was raped by a soldier at a detention camp during the Bosnian war, explains how it took 17 years to overcome her fear of being socially ostracised and give evidence against her attacker.
The defence of former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who is accused of raping a Serb woman in the Zvornik area during the war in 1992, called on the court to quash the charges or acquit him.