Ljubisa Vasiljevic

When the trial of a group of Serb fighters accused of the abductions and killings of passengers who were seized from a train in Bosnia during the war in 1993 continues at Belgrade Higher Court next month, there will be one fewer defendant in the dock.

Ljubisa Vasiljevic, a wartime Serb paramilitary fighter who was one of five defendants in the Strpci trial at Belgrade Higher Court, has died.

Belgrade Higher Court told BIRN that Vasiljevic died on July 6 and that "due to that fact, the court adopted a decision to suspend the proceedings [against him] on August 16, 2021".

Radojko Jesic, who was a passenger on the train that was halted at Strpci station on February 27, 1993 before a subsequent massacre by Serb fighters, told Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday that he saw his Bosniak acquaintance entering the train in the town of Uzice but could not find him again after Strpci.

Eyewitness Zoran Bogetic told the trial of five Bosnian Serb paramilitaries at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday that a passenger who was sitting in his train compartment on February 27, 1993 was taken away by two fighters.

Railway personnel and passengers from the train that was stopped in the small Bosnian town of Strpci on February 27, 1993, when paramilitaries seized 20 passengers who were later killed, told Belgrade Higher Court on Monday recollect how no one tried to stop the abductions of 20 non-Serbs from the train.

BELGRADE - The Trial Chamber of the Belgrade Appellate Court decided to annul the detention sentence for the indictees charged with the crime in Strpci and release them from prison pending trial, Tanjug learnt from lawyer Nebojsa Perovic.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Office of the Prosecutor for War Crimes has completed the investigation against 5 suspects in the Strpci case and will raise an indictment in the next few days based on the evidence collected, the office stated on Friday.

Indictment expected in Strpci war crimes case after 22 years

BELGRADE -- B92 has received confirmation that the War Crimes Prosecution will in the coming days bring charges against five suspects in the Strpci case.

Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told Radio B92 that 22 years after the crime, it has been discovered what led to the abduction and executions.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade High Court has imposed a custodial sentence of 30 days at the proposal of the War Crime Prosecutor's Office for persons suspected of partaking in the kidnap and murder of 20 train passengers near the village Strpci, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1993.