Višegrad massacres

Trial chamber chairwoman Minka Kreho said a plea agreement on an indictment confirmed in January 2021 had now been accepted. 

Novica Tripkovic was found guilty of having raped two captured Bosniak girls in the Foca area between August 2 and 9, 1992. 

The Bosnian state prosecution on Wednesday charged Borislav Pjano and Spomenko Novovic with committing crimes against humanity as part of a widespread and systematic attack by Bosnian Serb troops, police and paramilitary units on Bosniak civilians in the Foca area in 1992.

Novovic personally killed five Bosniak civilians, the prosecution said in a statement.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday charged Milan Lukic, the wartime leader of the Avengers paramilitary group, with crimes against 20 passengers who were abducted from a train at Strpci station near Visegrad in eastern Bosnia in February 1993 and then murdered.

The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Radomir Susnjar, charged with participating in the murder of 57 people in the Visegrad area, starts on Friday before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Radomir Susnjar pleaded not guilty to participating in the murders of 57 Bosniaks who were burned alive in a house in Visegrad in 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb policeman Sladjan Tasic faces trial for crimes against humanity after being indicted over the forcible disappearances of six Bosniaks who went missing in the Visegrad municipality in 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic - charged with torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime because she was married to a Bosniak - went on trial in Sarajevo.

In a sign of continuing post-war divisions, Bosniak survivors of the conflict welcomed Ratko Mladic’s life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, but Bosnian Serbs accused the Hague Tribunal of anti-Serb bias.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar was indicted for taking part in a massacre in which 57 Bosniak civilians were burned alive in a house in Visegrad in 1992.

A new mass grave has been discovered in the locality of Koricanske Stijene, which in 1992 was site of a grisly mass killing of 200 Bosniak and Croat civilians.