Paramilitary Veselin Vlahovic, alias ‘Batko’, was given Bosnia’s longest-ever war crimes sentence for a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992.
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A witness at the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes against villagers who were executed outside a mosque recalled how he manage to escape death but saw his father killed.
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At a trial for war crimes in the town of Prozor in central Bosnia in 1993, a Bosniak witness recalled how defendant Zeljko Jukic branded him with a burning cigarette.
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Bosniaks wanted harsher sentences for Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, who were jailed for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, but Serbs said the verdict was unfair.
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The Hague Tribunal charged retired Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic with contempt of court because he twice refused to testify in his former leader Radovan Karadzic’s defence.
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Ex-fighter Milun Kornjaca, accused of abusing and murdering prisoners in the Bosnian town of Cajnice, said he never assaulted anyone or locked up detainees in a metal container.
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The Hague Tribunal convicted former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic and former regional security services chief Stojan Zupljanin of war crimes and jailed them for 22 years each.
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A witness at the trial of ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992 testified that paramilitaries beat her husband so badly that his lungs filled with blood.
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The Bosnian prosecutor and the International Commission on Missing Persons will use satellite imagery in a bid to find the last undiscovered mass graves from the 1990s conflict.
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Belgrade has remanded in custody a former Bosnian soldier wanted by Sarajevo for allegedly abusing and torturing Serb prisoners at a detention centre in 1992.
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At the trial of three Bosnian Serbs for war crimes near the town of Visegrad in 1992, a witness said one defendant helped burn a villager’s home and others assaulted detainees.
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Bosnia’s state court and prosecutor’s office said that more funds are required to start processing the most sensitive and difficult cases and provide justice for wartime victims.
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A witness at the trial of a wartime Croatian Defence Forces officer testified that she was detained, beaten and abused by fighters in the Bosnian town of Mostar in 1992.
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A witness at the trial of fighter Savo Babic for war crimes in the town of Bratunac in 1992 said he saw a brutal murder and the torture of Bosniaks imprisoned at a primary school.
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The Hague Tribunal said it has wholly or partly paid for the defence of most of the suspects tried for wartime violations, but cannot reveal the amount of money actually spent.
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