Bosnian Army

The police department in Trebinje announced on Tuesday that it has sent a criminal complaint to the state prosecution accusing wartime commanders Zulfikar Alispago and Nezim Halilovic of crimes against Serb and Croat civilians in the Konjic area in 1992 and 1993.

Former Bosnian Army soldier Elfeta Veseli asked the appeals chamber of the state court in Sarajevo on Monday to quash the sentence convicting her of killing a Serb boy and hold a retrial.

Veseli said she hoped the appeals chamber would "correct the fatal mistake" of the first-instance verdict handed down in May this year.

Interpol has called for the arrest of former Bosnian Army soldier Esed Abdagic, who is charged with killing a Bosnian Serb prisoner of war in Bihac in 1993, after a request from a court in the north-western Bosnian town.

The retrial of Mustafa Djelilovic, Fadil Covic, Mirsad Sabic, Nezir Kazic, Becir Hujic, Halid Covic, Serif Mesanovic and Nermin Kalember opened at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday, with the defendants accused of crimes against civilians illegally detained at the Silos camp, the Krupa barracks and the 9th of May elementary school in the Hadzici municipality.

As part of an initiative called "Unmarked Suffering Sites", a group of peace activists in July put up nine more signs at new locations where they say war crimes occurred, either through capture, physical and mental violence or forced labour.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday upheld the verdict sentencing ex-soldiers Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal and Hazim Patkovic to a total of 27 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the village of Kruscica in 1993.

Flowers were lowered from Mostar's Old Bridge on Tuesday night at a commemoration for the victims of the 1990s wars in the Balkans held as part of an event to mark the 15th anniversary of the bridge's reconstruction.

Lawmakers in the Federation entity on Thursday night adopted new law on war veterans - one of the demands raised by ex-soldiers from the Bosnian war who staged a series of protests in 2017 and 2018.

In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday, the prosecution argued that former Bosnian Army battalion commander Enver Buza should be found guilty and given the harshest possible penalty.

Until May 7, 1995, a significant amount of weapons were delivered to the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Srebrenica, which was then a demilitarized zone, by an air bridge, which was presented as exclusively humanitarian at the time, according to a confidential letter from the Bosnian Army Commander Rasim Delic, "Vecernje novosti" had insight in.