BOSNIAN STATE COURT TO PRONAUNCE VERDICT IN CASE OF CROATIAN WAR CRIMINAL KRESO LUCIC ON TUESDAY

SARAJEVO,Bosnia (September 15,2007) - Next week the War Crimes Chamber of the Bosnian State Court will pronounce a verdict in the case of a Croatian war criminal Kreso Lucic, accused of crimes against humanity.

A first instance verdict against Croatian war criminal Kreso Lucic is expected to be pronounced on Tuesday, 18 September.He was indicted for crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the Bosnian town of Kresevo in 1993.

Croatian war criminal Kreso Lucic,a former member of the Croatian aggressor's formations, is accused of having "ordered detention of Bosnian civilians in 'Ivo Lola Ribar' elementary school and 'Sunje' hangar, where they were tortured and maltreated" in June and July 1993,during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia.

Also,The trial of Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek, a former member of the Serbian aggressor's formations, is due to continue on 17 September before the Bosnian State Court. The prosecution considers that Serbian war criminal Lelek was involved in the taking of Bosnian civilians from "Varda" factory in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, some of whom were killed and others are still missing, as well as in raping and torturing Bosnian civilians in this town in 1992,during the early stages of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

Serbian war criminal Rajko Vukovic is due to appear at a plea hearing before a preliminary hearing judge on Monday. This is the second time a plea hearing has been scheduled in this case. He failed to appear at the first hearing due to his involvement in a hunger strike 25 indictees began on 10 September.

Serbian war criminals Rajko Vukovic and Ranko Vukovic are charged with crimes committed on the territory of the eastern Bosnian town of Foca.

The trial of Serbian war criminals Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic before the Bosnian State Courtis is due to continue on Tuesday, 18 September, when the prosecution will examine two more protected witnesses. Serbian war criminals Rasevic and Todovic are charged with having participated in the torture, beating, murder and inhumane treatment of Bosnian civilians in Foca.

On 19 and 20 September, the trial of Serbian war criminals Zeljko Mejakic, Momcilo Gruban, Dusan Fustar and Dusko Knezevic is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court. They are indicted for crimes committed in the detention camps in the northern Bosnian city of Prijedor.

The continuation of the trial of Serbian war criminal Jadranko Palija before the Bosnian State Court is scheduled for 19 September, when the prosecution will present its material evidence. Palija, in his capacity as former member of the genocidal Serbian aggressor's formations, is charged with having "detained, maltreated and used Bosnians and Croatians as human shields".

On 19 and 20 September the trial will continue in the case of the 11 Serbian war criminals indicted for execution of 1,000 Bosnians at a farm in an eastern Bosnian village of Kravice on 13 July 1995.

The trial of the four Serbian war criminals charged with crimes against humanity committed in the Bratunac area during 1995 is due to continue on 19 September.Serbian war criminals Zdravko Bozic, Mladen Blagojevic, Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic are charged with having participated in the "detention and inhumane treatment, mass murder and forcible deportation of Bosnian civilians after the fall of the protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995".

The trial of Zijad Kurtovic, a former member of the Bosnian Army charged with crimes committed in Dreznica near Mostar, is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court on 20 September.

The trial of former members of the Croatian aggressor's formations,Croatian war criminals Marko Radic, Dragan Sunjic, Damir Brekalo and Mirko Vracevic, charged with crimes committed in Vojno detention camp near Mostar is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court on Friday, 21 September.

According to the official timetable of the Bosnian State Court, a pre-trial status conference in the case of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic is scheduled for 21 September. The prosecution considers that the two Serbian war criminals took part in the persecution of Bosnian civilians from the village of Borkovac, Bratunac municipality, where 14 Bosnian civilians were murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor.

Also on 21 September, the trial will continue in the case of Croatian war criminal Zdravko Mihaljevic, who is charged with having participated in the attack on the Bosnian village of Tulice on 12 June 1993, when the village residents were captured and seven Bosnians were murdered by the Croatian aggressor.