Bosnian Serb Army

The Bosnian state court announced on Friday that it has confirmed an indictment charging Zeljko Novakovic with committing crimes against humanity during attacks on several Bosniak-populated villages in the north-western Bosanski Novi area between early May and September 1992.

The Bosnian prosecution on Thursday charged Radovan Paprica, alias Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, with committing crimes against humanity in Foca in eastern Bosnia in 1992 while they were members of the Bosnian Serb Army.

The Constitutional Court rejected as inadmissible the appeal filed by Gojko Jankovic, the leader of a Serb paramilitary group from the town of Foca, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for the unlawful detention, murder and torture of Bosniaks and the rape and sexual enslavement of young women and girls, one of whom was just 12.

Eyewitness Zoran Bogetic told the trial of five Bosnian Serb paramilitaries at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday that a passenger who was sitting in his train compartment on February 27, 1993 was taken away by two fighters.

The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina told BIRN on Monday that investigators carrying out an exhumation of a suspected war grave have found two skulls that are believed to belong to Bosniaks from the village of Rizvanovici in the Prijedor area.

"The mortal remains of my mother and sister could have fitted into two nylon bags. I identified my late mother on the basis of several pieces of a dress that she wore," Buturovic recalled.

State Investigation and Protection Agency police arrested Radovan Paprica, also known as Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, on Sunday on charges of the multiple rape and sexual abuse of Bosniaks in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia in 1992.

The two former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers have been charged with committing a crime against humanity.

State Investigation and Protection Agency police on Tuesday arrested Tadi Mitrovic, who is suspected of having committed a crime against humanity in Glogova on May 18, 1992.

Railway personnel and passengers from the train that was stopped in the small Bosnian town of Strpci on February 27, 1993, when paramilitaries seized 20 passengers who were later killed, told Belgrade Higher Court on Monday recollect how no one tried to stop the abductions of 20 non-Serbs from the train.

The UN Committee Against Torture has ruled that the Bosnian authorities must pay compensation to a victim of sexual violence during the 1992-95 war and provide her with appropriate and free medical and psychological help as soon as possible.