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Bosnia Retries Serb Ex-Soldier for Killing Bosniak Family
The retrial of Sretko Pavic opened on Tuesday at the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court after the first-instance verdict sentencing him to 13 years in prison for crimes against humanity was quashed.
Bosnian Serb Army Officer Charged with Persecuting Bosniaks
The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Mile Ujic, the former deputy commander of Rogatica Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, with committing crimes against humanity in the Rogatica area in 1992 and 1993.
No Country for the Needy: Bosnia Fails to House its Displaced
On Easter Sunday 2010, Angelina Jolie came to the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica and performed a miracle. The Hollywood star had been touring the country in her off-screen role as ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. At a makeshift shelter in a former school building, she was introduced to Lena Babic, an elderly woman who had lost her home in the Bosnian war 18 years previously.
Serbia Tries Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter for Wartime Rape
The trial of Dalibor Krstovic, a Bosnian Serb fighter during the Bosnian war who is charged with raping a Bosniak woman in the town of Kalinovik in August 1992, started on Monday at the Higher Court in Belgrade.
Bosnian Serb Policeman’s Crimes Against Humanity Conviction Upheld
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mico Jurisic to 11 years in prison for wartime crimes including involvement in several murders in the Prijedor area in 1992.
He was found guilty of participating in the murders of two Bosniaks in the village of Carakovo, as well as the killings of two others.
Bosnian Croat War Criminal’s Plea for Early Release Rejected
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said that it has rejected an appeal for early release from Miroslav Bralo, a former member of the 'Jokers' anti-terrorist unit of the Croatian Defence Council, the wartime Bosnian Croat force.
Bosnian Croat Hague Tribunal Convict to be Buried
Drago Josipovic, who served a sentence for his participation in an attack on the village of Ahmici in April 1993 in which over 100 Bosniaks were killed, was due to be buried on Monday afternoon at a Catholic cemetery in Vitez in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Josipovic died on Saturday at the age of 65.
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Bosnian Train Massacre Trial: Witnesses Find Convenient Scapegoat
The first year of the trial in Belgrade for the abduction and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war in 1993 has heard testimony from relatives of the victims, other passengers, policemen, Bosnian Serb Army soldiers and the defendants themselves, as a fuller picture of the crime more than 26 years ago began to emerge.
Former Bosnian Refugee to Become Austria’s New Justice Minister
A Bosnian-born woman who came to Austria as a child refugee will be Austria's new Justice Minister, it was confirmed on Thursday.
Thirty-five-year-old Alma Zadic, a lawyer and member of the Green Party, will also be the youngest Justice Minister in Austrian history and the first to come from an immigrant background.
Belgrade Court Quashes Verdict Convicting Bosnian Serb Soldier
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.