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Street Named After Bosnian War Crime Defendant Angers Survivors
A decision by the Sarajevo Cantonal Assembly to name one of the streets in the Novi Grad municipality after a Hague Tribunal defendant, deceased Bosnian Army general Mehmed Alagic has been criticised by survivors of the 1992-95 war, international organisations and rights activists.
High-Level Suspects Charged, But Bosnia’s Dobrovoljacka Case Has Troubled History
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment this week charging ten people with committing a war crime in Sarajevo on May 3, 1992, when a Yugoslav People's Army military convoy was withdrawing from the capital.
Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Jailed over Killings of Serb Prisoners
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday sentenced the former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, Sakib Mahmuljin to a combined sentence of eight years for war crimes in the Vozuca and Zavidovici areas in 1995.
Bosnian War Posters Illustrate Graphic Story of Conflict
Left: Graphic designed by Trio design studio marking the tenth anniversary of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Right: Poster designed by Asim Djelilovic depicting a sniper saying "Perfect", inspired by the shooting of two female peace demonstrators in Sarajevo in 1992.
Serbian Court Urged to Jail Bosnian Wartime Prison Camp Official
Prosecutor Dusan Knezevic on Thursday asked Belgrade Higher Court to hand down a six-year prison sentence to Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of abusing civilians and prisoners of war at the Rasadnik camp in Gornji Rahic in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Brcko area during the summer of 1992.
Bosnia Convicts Ex-Military Policeman of Beating Prisoners
The Bosnian state court convicted Mehmed Alesevic, a former military police officer with the Bosnian Army's 505th Buzim Brigade, of seriously abusing civilian detainees during the army's conflict with the forces of the separatist Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia statelet during wartime.
Bosnian Army Ex-Soldiers Indicted for Crimes Against Prisoners of War
Judge Davorin Jukic told a hearing on Wednesday that the Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment charging Dzevad Avdicevic, Ahmed Hadzajlic, Muharem Efendic and Izet Ikanovic, as commanding officers and servicemen of the Bosnian Army, with committing crimes against prisoners of war in the area of Teocak during 1993.
Sarajevo Unveils Memorial to Victims of Kazani Pit Killings
Sarajevo mayor Benjamina Karic, accompanied by the top international official in Bosnia and Herzegovina, High Representative Christian Schmidt, and the vice-president of the Federation entity, Milan Dunovic, unveiled the new memorial on Monday and laid flowers next to the Kazani pit where the remains of those killed in 1992 and 1993 were found.
Sarajevo to Build Massacre Memorial without Naming Perpetrators
Sarajevo City Council on Wednesday voted to erect a monument to the mostly ethnic Serb civilian victims of the wartime Kazani Pit killings, but rejected a proposal by the Nasa Stranka party to name their killers on the inscription.
Prisoners ‘Weren’t Beaten’ in Brcko Prison During Bosnian War
A defence witness told the war crime trial of wartime fighter Osman Osmanovic at Belgrade Higher Court on Monday that he was held at the jail where the defendant allegedly assaulted prisoners in the Brcko area of Bosnia and Herzegovina but did not see any prisoners being beaten or tortured while he was there.