Prijedor

The trial of former reservist policeman Mico Jurisic, accused of committing crimes against humanity including murder and torture in Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality in 1992, opened in Sarajevo.

Wartime fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted of murdering five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb military policeman Slobodan Knezevic is accused of involvement in the detentions and killings of 120 Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992.

Former policeman Milan Gavrilovic was cleared on appeal of committing inhumane acts against non-Serb prisoners who were being transported between detention camps in the Prijedor area in 1992.

Former policeman Milan Gavrilovic was cleared of committing inhumane acts against non-Serb prisoners who were being transported between detention camps in the Prijedor area in 1992.

The 25th anniversary of the beginning of the release of detainees from the notorious Omarska detention camp, run by Bosnian Serb forces in Prijedor, will be marked this weekend.

Cities around Bosnia are commemorating the horrendous crimes committed against the non-Serb population of the northeastern town of Prijedor 25 years ago by putting up white ribbons.

Some 500 Bosnian workers for the iron-ore mine operator Arcelor Mittal Prijedor took to the streets of the main city in Republika Srpska, Banja Luka, on Thursday, to protest against the government's decision to sell the Ljubija iron-ore mine to Israeli Investment Group.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested the eight men on Tuesday morning in Prijedor on war crimes charges.

The suspects are under investigation for the unlawful arrest and murder of some 120 Bosniak men and boys from the village of Miska Glava in the summer of 1992.

Former fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were charged with crimes against humanity for killing five members of the same family in Tukovi in the Prijedor municipality in June 1992.