Teslic

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday rejected an appeal from Dragan Marjanovic, a wartime commander of a platoon of the Bosnian Serb Army Teslic Brigade's military police.

The court ruled that there was no violation of Marjanovic's right to a fair trial and that the verdict was not based on unlawful evidence.

Former police officers Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djukic were charged with committing crimes against humanity for allegedly persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in the town of Teslic in 1992.

Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.

Igor Radojicic, a popular figure in the main Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, is close to resigning - or being kicked out - from the party, which could undermine the political stability of Republika Srpska, a party source told Balkan Insight.

Officers from the Bosnian State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested the alleged jihad recruiters during raids in Sarajevo, Kiseljak, Zenica, Magaj, Srebrenik, Zvornik, Buzim and Teslic on Wednesday in an operation codenamed Damask.