Bosnian Genocide

Former Bosnian Serb reservist policemen Predrag Milisavljevic and Milos Pantelic were both sentenced to 20 years in prison for the executions of 48 Bosniak civilians from Visegrad in 1992.

A prosecution witness told Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Petar Kovacevic’s trial that she found out from her neighbours that the defendant shot her father dead near Visegrad in 1992.

A former Bosnian Serb soldier has been indicted for rape in Vogosca near Sarajevo, while four Bosnian Army ex-servicemen are charged with involvement in the murder of seven prisoners of war.

For the first time, Bosniak ex-prisoners commemorated the shutdown of a wartime prison camp where the Bosnian Army detained hundreds of Serbs in Celebici in 1992.

Hague Tribunal prosecutors have been granted permission to present new forensic evidence found at Tomasica, Bosnia’s biggest mass grave, in the war crimes case against Ratko Mladic.

A defence witness told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that he saw a Bosniak municipal official’s journal that contained information about preparations for an attack in Vlasenica in 1992.

Two Serb ex-soldiers said their fellow serviceman Vitomir Rackovic was actually on the frontline at the same time he is alleged to have attacked villages in the Visegrad area in 1992.

Bosniaks refused a peace deal that could have averted fighting in the city of Foca in 1992 and began military operations first, a former Bosnian Serb official told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial.

Karadzic verdict could be turning point in BiH

Experts and officials said that the Karadzic verdict could help unify BiH.

Victims are hoping for a fair verdict in the recently-concluded trial of suspected war criminal Radovan Karadzic, which experts say could improve the relationship between the two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

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A defence witness admitted at Ratko Mladic’s trial that some prisoners held by Bosnian Serb forces at the Rasadnik camp in Rogatica were murdered in 1992 by ‘extremists’.