Sanski Most

Belgrade Higher Court found Milorad Jovanovic guilty on Friday of torturing non-Serb civilian prisoners, one of whom died as a consequence, who were being detained at the Simo Miljus Memorial Museum in Lusci Palanka in the Sanski Most area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer of 1992. The court sentenced him to nine years in jail.

The trial of the former commander of Bosnian Serb Army's Sana Brigade, Branko Basara, who is accused of war crimes against Bosnian civilians in the Sanski Most area from April to September 1992, opened at Belgrade Higher Court on Monday.

Belgrade Higher Court found Milorad Jovanovic guilty on Tuesday of torturing non-Serb civilian prisoners who were being detained at the Simo Miljus Memorial Museum in Lusci Palanka in the Sanski Most area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer of 1992, and sentenced him to nine years in jail.

The remains of five people presumably killed in 1995 have been found at the Greda locality in the Bosnian municipality of Sanski Most, the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina, INO BiH, has announced.

Dudakovic is suspected of committing war crimes against Serbs in the fall of 1995.

Several other persons, suspected of committing war crimes against Serbs during the war, from 1992 until 1995, have also been detained.

They have been arrested on the order of the Prosecution of BiH, while the investigation against Dudakovic lasted 12 years.

The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina has sentenced three Serbs to a total of 32 years in prison for war crimes committed against Bosniaks (Muslims) in Sanski Most.

Goran Mrdja, Milorad Mrdja, and Mile Kokot are the defendants who have been found guilty, Beta reported.

The State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested seven former Bosnian Serb Army troops on suspicion of torturing and abusing Bosniak civilians in the Sanski Most area in 1992.

Two kindergartens, one called Radost [Joy] in the northern Bosnian town of Samac, and another called Krajiska Radost [Joy of the Krajina], in the western town of Sanski Most, lived up to their names after reopening with financial aid from Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic.

Four former Bosnian Serb soldiers were detained on suspicion of participating in the killings and rapes of Bosniaks and other inhuman acts in the Sanski Most area.

A defence witness at Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial said Serb forces did not persecute Bosniaks and Croats in the Sanski Most area, but responded to a real armed threat.