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07 May 13 Bosnian Serb Ex-PM Acquitted of War Crimes

Post-war Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic was acquitted of ordering an attack on Bosanska Krupa and expelling Bosniak civilians during the conflict in 1992.

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30 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb Policeman Jailed for Wartime Rapes

Dragoljub Kojic was jailed for three years for repeatedly raping a Bosniak woman in a village near the north-eastern town of Bosanski Samac during the conflict in 1992.

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29 Apr 13 Bosniak ‘Survived Serb Mass Execution’ at Mosque

A witness told the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters how he survived being shot during the execution of Bosniak villagers at a mosque in Carakovo near Prijedor in 1992.

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26 Apr 13 Sarajevo Trial for Busovaca War Crimes Begins

Former Croatian Defence Forces fighters Zoran Marinic and Zoranu Milic went on trial for the killings of Bosniak civilians in the town of Busovaca in 1993.

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26 Apr 13 Bosnian Fighters ‘Abused Croats in Museum Basement’

Testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Army deputy commander Nihad Bojadzic, witnesses recalled Croat prisoners being abused at a museum in the southern town of Jablanica.

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26 Apr 13 Prisoners ‘Forced Into Hard Labour’ by Bosnian Guards

A former prisoner told the trial for war crimes committed in Hadzici near Sarajevo that defendant Becir Hujic ordered detainees at the Silos camp to do hard labour.

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25 Apr 13 KLA Commander Limaj ‘Didn’t Order Torture or Murders’

A former legal adviser to the Kosovo Liberation Army told the war crimes trial of Fatmir Limaj that the ex-commander didn’t order the abuse of prisoners at the Klecka jail.

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25 Apr 13 UN Peace Envoy Testifies for Karadzic Defence

Former UN peace envoy Jasushi Akashi testified at Radovan Karadzic’s Hague trial that it was impossible to prove that Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for a market massacre in Sarajevo.

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25 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb ‘Used Prisoners as Human Shields’

At the trial for wartime crimes at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a witness said defendant Branko Vlaco decided which prisoners did hard labour or served as human shields.

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24 Apr 13 Serb Authorities ‘Ordered Kosovo Corpse Clean-Up’

The authorities used a municipal waste-disposal service to remove the bodies of Albanians massacred in Kosovo in 1999, a witness told the war crimes trial of 13 Serbian paramilitaries.

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24 Apr 13 KLA Commander Limaj ‘Never Ran Kosovo War Jail’

At the trial of former KLA commander Fatmir Limaj for war crimes against prisoners at the Klecka detention centre, the guerrillas’ ex-legal adviser said the defendant didn’t control the jail.

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23 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb Prisoners ‘Regularly Abused’ at Dretelj Camp

A witness at the trial of five Croatian Defence Forces fighters for war crimes at the Dretelj detention camp in southern Bosnia in 1992 said prisoners were physically and mentally abused.

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23 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb Fighter ‘Organised Deadly Prisoner Convoys’

At the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes in Visegrad, a witness alleged that one defendant organised convoys from which civilians were taken and executed, including her husband.

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23 Apr 13 Serbian Paramilitary Describes Massacre of Kosovo Villagers

A key prosecution witness told the trial of 13 members of the Serbian ‘Jackals’ paramilitary unit how they massacred scores of ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.

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22 Apr 13 Bosnian Soldier ‘Never Saw Croats Murdered’

Testifying at his trial for 22 killings during a wartime attack on the village of Trusina in 1993, a Bosnian serviceman said he heard an execution order but didn’t see the victims shot.

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