Monday, December 10, 2007

BOSNIAN STATE COURT CONFIRMS INDICTMENTS FOR WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY GENOCIDAL SERBIAN AGGRESSOR IN JAJCE AND KALINOVIK

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (December 10,2007) – Last week, the Bosnian State Court confirmed the indictments for war crimes committed by the genocidal Serbian aggressor's soldiers in the Bosnian towns of Jajce and Kalinovik. According to the official timetable, plea hearings in these two cases have been scheduled for next week.

Serbian war criminals Mirko (Spiro) Pekez, Mirko (Mile) Pekez and Milorad Savic are charged with having murdered 23 Bosnian civilians in Jajce area during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia. They are due to appear before the Bosnian State Court on Tuesday, December 11.

Two days later, a plea hearing is due in the case of Serbian war criminals Ratko Bundalo, Nedjo Zeljaja and Djordjislav Askraba, former members of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS), charged with having committed crimes in Kalinovik.

Next week, on December 10, 11 and 12, the trial of Serbian war criminal Milorad Trbic is due to continue. Trbic, former member of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS), is charged with genocide committed against Bosnians from the Srebrenica region in July 1995,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

On Monday, December 10, ten Defence witnesses are due to appear before the Bosnian State Court at the trial of Serbian war criminal Zejko Lelek, who is charged with having committed the murder, imprisonment and rape of Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad. Two court experts are due to appear at the trial of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic, whom the prosecution considers responsible for murdering a group of Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1992.

At the trial of Croatian war criminals Marko Radic, Dragan Sunjic, Damir Brekalo and Mirko Vracevic, which is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court today and on Wednesday, new Prosecution witnesses will be examined. Four former members of the fascist Croatian aggressor's formations are charged with having committed murder and rape and with having forced the Bosnian civilians detained in the Vojno concentration camp to perform hard labour in 1993,during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia.

On Tuesday, December 11 and Wednesday, December 12, the trial continues in the case of former assistant commander of "Hamze" Battalion with the 505th Buzim Brigade of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army Sefik Alic. The Prosecution considers him responsible for having failed to investigate and punish the perpetrators of the murder of four genocidal Serbian aggressor's soldiers who were captured by the Bosnian Army during the "Oluja" military operation.

On the same days, the defence is due to begin presenting evidence at the trial of Serbian war criminals Zeljko Mejakic, Momcilo Gruban, Dusan Fustar and Dusko Knezevic, who are charged with having committed crimes in the northern Bosnian town of Prijedor during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia. At the two hearings before the bosnian State court, the Defence is expected to present its introductory arguments and evidence presentation plan.

According to the official timetable of the Bosnian State Court, on Tuesday, December 11 Serbian war criminal Mitar Rasevic is due to testify as a Defence witness at his own trial. Serbian war criminals Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic are charged with having committed crime against humanity in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca.

Two days later, the Defence is due to start presenting its evidence before the Bosnian state Court at the trial of Serbian war criminals Zdravko Bozic, Mladen Blagojevic, Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic, who are charged with having murdered Bosnian civilians detained in the school building in the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1995,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

The trial of 11 Serbian war criminals charged with genocide committed in Kravica village near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995 is due to continue on December 12 and 13.

On December 13, the Prosecution will examine two more witnesses at the trial of former member of the Bosnian Army Zijad Kurtovic, who is charged with having committed crimes against Croatians living in Bosnia in 1993. On the same day, the Defence will continue presenting its evidence at the trial of Croatian war criminal Zdravko Mihaljevic,former member of the fascist Croatian aggressor's formations charged with having murdered Bosnian civilians in Tulice village near the Bosnian town of Kiseljak during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia in the early 1990's.

On Friday, December 14, the trials are due to continue in the case of Croatian war criminal Pasko Ljubicic, former member of the fascist Croatian aggressor's formations charged with having committed crimes in the Bosnian towns of Busovaca and Vitez, and the brothers Serbian war criminals Rajko and Ranko Vukovic, whom the Bosnian State Prosecutor charges with having committed crimes in yhe eastern Bosnian town of Foca during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

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