Konjic

About 1,000 migrants and refugees who have lingered at the site of the burned camp will now over-winter in what was formerly the largest migrant centre in Bosnia.

The decision concludes a several-day search for solutions to the emergency situation that arose after migrants torched the Lipa camp as it was about to close.

In a year like no other, when a pandemic enveloped the world, special gratitude is due also to the doctors and medical workers who took the challenge head on, sparing no effort and risking their own lives to help others.

Bosnia's "Oxygen Man"

Miralem Sabic Mika. Illustration: BIRN/Igor Vujcic 

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that former Bosnian Army soldier Edhem Zilic's challenge to the verdict convicting him of war crimes against civilians was unfounded.

"The Constitutional Court has determined that the appellant's right to a fair trial was not violated," the court said in its decision.

Prosecutor Marijana Cobovic told the Bosnian state court at the start of the trial on Wednesday that the 14 defendants were responsible for the murders, detentions, rape, torture and mistreatment of the Serb population in Konjic, as well as burning their property and the local Orthodox church.

War veterans have blocked roads in various parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina to demand additional benefits.

Reports said the veterans of Bosnia's 1992-95 war peacefully ended their last blockades in the country's Muslim-Croat Federation on the morning of March 1.

The protest that began on February 28 had left thousands of people trapped in their vehicles in freezing temperatures.

Members of the SIPA agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday arrested 13 persons suspected of committing war crimes against Serbs.

The arrests took place in Konjic and Sarajevo, while the crimes were committed during the 1990s war in the area of Bradina, a village near the town of Konjic.

The arrests took place in Konjic and Sarajevo, while the crimes were committed during the 1990s war in the area of Bradina, a village near the town of Konjic.

SIPA said in a statement quoted by Beta that the suspects will be turned over to the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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According to a retired general of the so-called Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the war is not over - it is merely that the shooting has stopped. This has been reported by EuroBlic on Tuesday.

A court in Graz, Austria, on Thursday jailed a Bosnian citizen, Fikret Begic, to eight years in prison for recruiting volunteers for Islamic State, ISIS.

Croatian police arrested Begic, 49, originally from the town of Konjic but now living in Graz, in January 2015 in Slavonski Brod, while he was trying to cross the border with Bosnia.

SARAJEVO - Former member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Army Ibro Macic has been sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for war crimes committed against Serb and Croatian civilians in the territory of Konjic, the BiH Court released on Friday.