A Hollywood movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and the documentary “Ending Impunity”, both dealing with rape during the war in Bosnia, had their premiers in February.
>>>In his testimony for the prosecution a witness told the court that Veselin “Batko” Vlahovic raped his pregnant sister-in-law.
>>>A witness in the trial of three soldiers accused of murder and rape in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina said he heard a gunshot at the time of the alleged war crimes.
>>>A witness for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the trial of Jasko Gazdic, former member of the Army of Republika Srpska, claims a person who identified himself as “Jasko” raped her in August 1992.
>>>Bosnian police arrested Sasa Baricanin on Tuesday on suspicion of war crimes committed against the non-Serb population in Sarajevo during the country's 1992-95 war.
Fifteen years since the end of Bosnia’s 1992-95 conflict, justice remains “painfully slow” for survivors of wartime rape, with only a handful of cases successfully prosecuted.
It has been three years since Radovan Stankovic, sentenced by a Bosnian court to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed during the country's 1992-1995 war, escaped from Foca prison.
>>>The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has rendered a first instance verdict sentencing Cerim Novalic to seven years in prison for war crimes against civilians committed in the Konjic area.
>>>The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor has filed an indictment against Darko Jankovic for crimes against civilians committed in the Celopek camp in Zvornik, Bosnia in 1992.
>>>Veselin Vlahovic, known as the Monster from Grbavica, does not want to be extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia, but to Montenegro, Bosnian media report.
>>>The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, sentenced Zuhdija Tabakovic to three months' imprisonment for contempt of court.
>>>The State Prosecution in Bosnia and Herzegovina will do “everything” to have Veselin Vlahovic Batko extradited from Spain, prosecution spokesperson Boris Grubesic told Balkan Insight.
>>>Police in Spain have arrested Veselin Vlahovic Batko, whose name has become synonymous with alleged war crimes committed in Grbavica, a part of Sarajevo that was under the control of Karadzic and his Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian war.
>>>The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, has seized wartime notes and reports from a journalist in Foca, in southeastern Bosnia.
>>>Bosnia’s state court has indicted three individuals under one indictment for genocide committed in Srebrenica, July 1995. The court also indicted the three for rape during war, the first time that a court has included rape in a genocide indictment for Srebrenica.
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