Kotor Varoš

After five unsolved murders in the last two months, some of them in the coastal town of Kotor or carried out by Kotor crime groups, the government and the security agencies have been accused of not doing enough to protect citizens against criminals who are "more powerful than the state".

A former detainee told the trial of seven Bosnian Serbs charged with persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in Kotor-Varos that he was forced to perform sex acts with other prisoners at the police station.

A witness told the trial of seven Bosnian Serbs charged with involvement in detaining and murdering Bosniaks and Croats in Kotor Varos said her son was seized and beaten to death.

At the trial of ex-soldiers Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic, the victim’s mother and brother testified that she was raped by four Serb fighters in the Kotor Varos area in June 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb servicemen Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic went on trial in Sarajevo, charged with the wartime rape of a 14-year-old girl in Kotor Varos in June 1992.

A witness told the trial of seven Bosnian Serbs charged with involvement in the detentions and murders of Bosniaks and Croats in Kotor Varos said that two of them assaulted him.

Former Bosnian Serb servicemen Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic both pleaded not guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl in the Kotor Varos area in June 1992.

The District Court in Banja Luka acquitted Devad Zec of having killed a Serb civilian in Vasiljevici, a hamlet near Kotor Varos.

The trial of seven Bosnian Serbs charged with taking part in murders, illegal detentions, torture and other inhumane acts against Bosniaks and Croats in Kotor Varos will begin this month.

Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic have been indicted by the state prosecution for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in the Kotor Varos area in 1992.