Cantonal court

The Cantonal Court in Bihac on Thursday found Milenko Macanovic, alias Macan, who was a Bosnian Serb Army soldier in Kljuc during wartime, of murdering one civilian prisoner and mistreating another.

The court found that Macanovic went into the Nikola Mackic School gym in Kljuc after a number of Bosniak civilians had been detained and brought to the gym for interrogation.

Ramiz Hodzic pleaded not guilty at the Cantonal Court in the city of Bihac on Wednesday to committing a war crime against the civilian population in the Velika Kladusa area in 1994.

"Honourable court, I understand the indictment and the charges against me, but I am not guilty," Hodzic said.

The Cantonal Court in Zenica delivered a first-instance verdict on Friday acquitting Ivica Jukic, alias Juka, of mistreating Bosniak prisoners of war at the Silos Nova Trgovina detention facility in Zepce in August 1993.

Presiding judge Enes Malicbegovic said that some of the testimonies from witnesses who had allegedly been mistreated were either contradictory or too similar.

The Supreme Court in Bosnia's Federation entity has rejected Jovo Galic's appeal against the verdict convicting him of committing a war crime against the civilian population and sentencing him to two-and-a-half years in prison.

Interpol has called for the arrest of former Bosnian Army soldier Esed Abdagic, who is charged with killing a Bosnian Serb prisoner of war in Bihac in 1993, after a request from a court in the north-western Bosnian town.

"The mortal remains of my mother and sister could have fitted into two nylon bags. I identified my late mother on the basis of several pieces of a dress that she wore," Buturovic recalled.

The Cantonal court in Bihac has acquitted former Bosniak fighter Hasan Icanovic of crimes against prisoners of war in the northern Velika Kladusa municipality.

BELGRADE - The war crimes chamber of the Belgrade Appellate Court has increased the sentence delivered to former member of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) Djuro Tadic for participation in war crimes in the village of Duljci near Bihac in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to 13 years.