Bosnian Serb Army

The Constitutional Court rejected Momir and Petar Tasic's claim that they were not given a fair trial and upheld the verdict sentencing them to 14 years and five years in prison respectively for crimes against humanity.

The Bosnian state court found former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin guilty on Friday of failing to prevent murders and inhumane acts by members of the El Mujahideen unit in Vozuca and Zavidovici areas during the Bosnian war.

"In his capacity as commander he failed to prevent the commission of inhumane acts," said presiding judge Zoran Bozic.

In closing statements at the Bosnian state court on Thursday, defence lawyers for Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza called for them to be found not guilty of participating in a joint criminal enterprise that aimed to detain and kill Serb civilians in villages in the Trnovo area, and of unlawfully detaining, killing and inhumanely treating captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers from May 1992 to July 1

The Bosnian state court has refused to confirm the prosecution's indictment charging Radomir Nedic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army's First Majevica Brigade, and Ratko Djurkovic, the commander of the First Battalion of the First Majevica Brigade, with having command responsibility for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has turned down a request for early release from Dragoljub Kunarac, the wartime leader of a Bosnian Serb Army reconnaissance unit, who was jailed by the UN court for multiple rape and the enslavement of two women in the Foca area during the Bosnian conflict.

The Bosnian state court discontinued proceedings against Milorad Krunic, who was accused of committing crimes against humanity in the Sanski Most area in 1992, because he has died.

"In the case against Milorad Krunic, the court has rendered a decision to discontinue the criminal proceedings against him due to the defendant's death," the state court announced.

The trial of Predrag Bastah, who is accused of crimes against humanity for his involvement in the executions of 37 civilian prisoners at Mracni Dol in the Vlasenica municipality, opened at the Bosnian state court on Monday.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Wednesday charged Milorad Kotur and Dusan Culibrk with wartime crimes including the killing of detainees from the Omarska prison camp.

"The accused are charged with the murder of 44 detainees from the Omarska camp, committed at Donji Dubovik [near the town of Bosanska Krupa] in the summer of 1992," the prosecution said in a statement.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Tuesday charged Branislav Gavrilovic, alias Brne, with committing a war crime against civilians and prisoners of war while he was the commander of the Brnet's Chetniks military unit, which was part of the Bosnian Serb Army's First Igman Brigade.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has upheld the verdict sentencing ex-soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic and Sasa Boskic to 14 years in prison each for crimes against civilians in Oborci near Donji Vakuf in September 1995, BIRN has learned.

The acquittal of a fourth defendant, the men's commander, Milorad Glamocak, was also upheld.