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Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Civilian Prisoner

The Cantonal Court in Bihac on Thursday found Milenko Macanovic, alias Macan, who was a Bosnian Serb Army soldier in Kljuc during wartime, of murdering one civilian prisoner and mistreating another.

The court found that Macanovic went into the Nikola Mackic School gym in Kljuc after a number of Bosniak civilians had been detained and brought to the gym for interrogation.

Lawyer gunned down in Istanbul

A 42-year-old Turkish lawyer was shot to death in Istanbul by two assailants late on Jan. 26 following a fight that reportedly broke out over money.

According to police sources, the two men met with Şafak Mahmutyazıcıoğlu at a restaurant he owned in the Yeşilköy neighborhood to discuss a property sale with him and one of his clients.

Bosnian War Prisoners’ Complaint about Serbian TV Show ‘Dismissed’

Former detainee Fikret Alic with a copy of Time magazine from 1992 depicting him in a Bosnian Serb wartime camp. Photo: EPA-EFE/Freek van den Bergh.

The former detainees had complained that untruths about the Serb-run camps were aired on the Happy TV show 'Good Morning, Serbia' in February this year, belittling their suffering.

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