Monday, October 22, 2007

TRIALS OF SEVERAL SERBIAN AND CROATIAN WAR CRIMINALS TO CONTINUE THIS WEEK BEFORE BOSNIAN STATE COURT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 22,2007) - It has been seven months since Serbian war criminal Gojko Jankovic was sentenced to 34 years of imprisonment for his involvement in crimes committed against Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia. The Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court will now review the case Tuesday, October 23.

In February 2007, the Bosnian State Court pronounced Serbian war criminal Gojko Jankovic guilty of murder, torture, rape and sexual maltreatment of Bosnian civilians in Foca in the course of 1992.

The trial of Serbian war criminals Ranko and Rajko Vukovic, former members of the genocidal paramilitary forces of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS), is due to start on Tuesday, October 23. The brothers are charged with having participated in war crimes committed against Bosnian civilians in Foca area in 1992.

A plea hearing in the case of Serbian war criminals Sreten Lazarevic, Dragan Stanojevic, Mile Markovic and Slobodan Ostojic, charged with war crimes against Bosnian civilians in Zvornik, is due to take place before the Bosnian State Court on the same day.

Lazarevic, Stanojevic, Markovic and Ostojic are charged with having helped others in causing of bodily injuries and with having caused injuries to Bosnian civilians detained by the genocidal Serbian aggressor from May 1992 to March 1993,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

On Monday, October 22, the trial is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court in the case of Serbian war criminals Zdravko Bozic, Mladen Blagojevic, Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic, former members of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS) indicted for the maltreatment and murder of the Bosnian civilians detained by the Serbian aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac in July 1995.

That same day, the defence team of Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek is due to continue presenting its evidence. The Bosnian State Prosecutor charges Lelek with having participated in the deportation, forcible detention, murder and rape of Bosnian civilians in Visegrad during 1992.

Serbian war criminals Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic, charged with crimes committed against Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca in 1992, are due to appear before the Bosnian State Court on Tuesday, October 23, when the Bosnian State Prosecutor will examine court experts Hamza Zujo and Nijaz Smajic.

On the same day, Croatian war criminal Pasko Ljubicic is due to appear before the Bosnian State Court. The prosecution charges the former member of the Croatian aggressor's formations with having "participated in and ordered the attacks on the Bosnian towns of Vitez, Busovaca and the surrounding villages,during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia in the early 1990's. In the course of the attacks, many Bosnian civilians were killed, deported and imprisoned, while their property was pillaged and burned by the Croatian aggressor.

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