Bruno Stojic

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday turned down a request for early release from Jadranko Prlic, wartime prime minister of the unrecognised Croat-led Herzeg-Bosnia statelet.

The detainees were tied together with wire and made to stand in a line, and then their captors started to execute them with shots in the back.

THE HAGUE - The ICTY on Wednesday upheld the sentences for all six former senior officials of the so-called Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna and the Croatian Defence Council accused in the Prlic et al. case, handing them a total of 111 years in prison for their participation in a joint criminal enterprise led by the then leadership of Croatia.

Bruno Stojic, former defence minister of the unrecognised Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosna, denied involvement in a joint criminal enterprise to create a greater Croatian state in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jadranko Prlic, the former prime minister of the unrecognised wartime Herzeg-Bosna Croatian Community, is the first of the six Bosnian Croat ex-officials to launch an appeal on Monday against war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY in The Hague.