SEVERAL WAR CRIMES TRIALS TO CONTINUE THIS WEEK BEFORE BOSNIAN STATE COURT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (December 17,2007) – The trial of Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek - charged with having committed crimes against humanity in the eastern Bosnian town Visegrad,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court today,on Monday, December 17.

The trials of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic,former members of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS) charged with the murder of Bosnian civilians in Borkovac village near the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1992,during the early stages of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia, are also due to continue today.

A former member of the Bosnian Army Idhan Sipic,who has admitted murdering a Serbian woman living in Bosnia on the territory of Kljuc municipality during the "Sana 95" military operation, is due to appear before the Bosnian State Court today.

The guilt admission agreement, made on November 23 this year, will be considered then. This is the first time that a guilt admission agreement has been reached before the War Crimes Chamber of the Bosnian State Court.

The trial of Croatian war criminals Marko Radic, Dragan Sunjic, Damir Brekalo and Mirko Vracevic, former members of the fascist Croatian aggressor's formations charged with crimes committed in the Vojno concentration camp near the southern Bosnian city of Mostar,during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia in the early 1990's is also due to continue before the Bosnian State Court today.

On that same day, and also on Wednesday, December 19 the trial before the Bosnian State Court continues in the case of Serbian war criminal Milorad Trbic, charged with genocide committed in Bosnia by the fascist Serbian aggressor in the 1990's.

On Tuesday, December 18, Enes Handzic and Senad Dautovic are due to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. The former members of the Bosnian Army are charged with having committed war crimes in Bugojno.

At the trial of Sefik Alic, former assistant commander for security of the "Hamze" Battalion with the 505th Buzim Brigade of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, who is indicted for offences committed against the captured genocidal Serbian aggressor's soldiers during the "Oluja" military operation in 1995, new prosecution witnesses are due to appear on Tuesday, December 18.

On the same day, Serbian war criminal Mitar Rasevic's defence team will examine its witnesses. Serbian war criminals Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic are charged with having committed war crimes against Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

On Wednesday, December 19 the prosecution will examine the last witness at the trial of Zijad Kurtovic.According to the indictment, in the second half of 1993, in Donja Drežnica, Mostar Municipality, as a commander of the Military police platoon within an Independent Drežnica Battalion of the Fourth Corps of the Bosnian Army, Zijad Kurtović acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions. The indictment charges Kurtovic with the maltreatment of 20 civilians and captured fascist Croatian aggressor's soldiers, who were detained in Donja Dreznica in 1993.

On December 18 and 20, the first defence witnesses will be examined before the Bosnian State Court at the trial 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), who are charged with having tortured and murdered unlawfully imprisoned Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian towns of Bratunac and Zvornik,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

At the trial of Serbian war criminals Zeljko Mejakic, Momcilo Gruban, Dusan Fustar and Dusko Knezevic, the first defence witnesses are due to appear before the Bosnian State Court on December 18. The Bosnian State Prosecutor charges them with having committed war crimes against Bosnian civilians in Omarska and Keraterm concentration camps in 1992,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.