Bosanski Petrovac

Belgrade Appeals Court has increased the sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Dragisic from four to five years in prison for one killing and two attempted killings of civilians in the town of Bosanski Petrovac in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 20, 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milan Dragisic said he killed one civilian in Bosanski Petrovac in September 1992 as his retrial for wartime crimes began at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday.

Dragisic is also accused of killing two other people and attempting to kill three more, but he denied committing the other crimes.

Belgrade Appeals Court has reversed the judgment sentencing former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Dragisic to four years in prison for killing one Bosnian civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac in western Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

Atif Dudakovic outside court. Photo: BIRN.

The trial of Atif Dudakovic opened on Monday at the Bosnian state court, with the former commander and 16 Bosnian Army soldiers accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at removing the Serb population from the Bosanski Petrovac, Kljuc, Bosanska Krupa and Sanski Most areas during the Bosnian war.

A group of about 50 local councillors and mayors from northwestern Bosnia said they will protest on Thursday in Sarajevo in front of state institutions over what they call mistaken attempts to resolve the growing migration crisis.

Prosecutors in Bihac in northwest Bosnia said that Milutin Babic, from Kljuc, suspected of war crimes in Bosanski Petrovac, had been extradited from Serbia.