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The state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday confirmed a revised indictment charging Dane Bajic and Mijodrag Knezevic with committing a crime against humanity committed in the municipality of Prijedor in 1992.

The decision by the UN court in The Hague last month to uphold the life sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic takes the number of life terms imposed for involvement in the Srebrenica genocide to five.

The trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighters Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano for committing crimes against humanity in the Foca area opened at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.

Novovic and Pjano are charged with killing, illegally detaining, robbing and mistreating Bosniak civilians in the villages of Dragocava, Sube and Potpece from April to September 1992.

More than a year has passed since large-scale trials for crimes committed during the war in Bosnia were put on hold at the state court in Sarajevo due to safety measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic, and there is no indication of when they might resume, BIRN has learned.

The retrial of Enver Buza, the former commander of the Bosnian Army's Independent Prozor Battalion, began on Thursday at the state court in Sarajevo.

Buza is being retried after the first-instance verdict sentencing him to 12 years in prison for wartime crimes was quashed on appeal.

The state court in Sarajevo has asked Interpol to call for the arrests of Dusan Cimes, Slobodan Curcic and Goran Mojovic, who are all wanted to face war crimes charges but are currently living abroad.

Cimes is accused of participating in a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police against the Bosniak civilian population.

In its closing statement on Wednesday, the prosecution called on the state court in Sarajevo to convict Srecko Acimovic of genocide and give him a sentence as close to the maximum as possible.

The state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday found Gavrilo Stevic not guilty of going to fight abroad, in the first case in Bosnia and Herzegovina against a defendant accused of involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.

The trial of Agan Ramic, who is accused a mistreating a minor while serving with the municipal headquarters of the Bosnian Army's Territorial Defence force in Konjic during the war in 1992, opened on Wednesday at the state court in Sarajevo.

The Bosnian prosecution in its closing statement on Tuesday urged the state court in Sarajevo to convict Boris Bosnjak, Milos Mavrak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic of crimes against humanity.