Yugoslav Wars

Lawyers for members of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s ‘Drenica Group’ cell, accused of assaulting prisoners during the late 1990s war, told a court hearing that their clients were not guilty.

Witnesses told the trial of former paramilitary Leonardo Jankovic how they were illegally arrested by Serb secessionist troops in the Croatian village of Zamlaca in 1991.

Former guard Goran Popovic went on trial for sexually abusing, beating and torturing prisoners in 1992 at the Uzamnica detention camp near Visegrad where Bosniak civilians were held.

A woman told the war crimes trial of Dragan Sekaric that she was raped at her home near the town of Visegrad by a Bosnian Serb fighter who also shot her neighbour dead.

A Zagreb court cleared two former Croatian anti-terrorist policemen of the notorious massacre of six Serb civilians during an operation in the village of Grubori in 1995.

Serbian experts will examine the site of another suspected mass grave near the town of Raska, where the bodies of 37 Kosovo Albanians killed during wartime have already been found.

For the second day in a row, Bosnian police have arrested two men suspected of war crimes committed in the towns of Sekovici and Busovaca during the 1992-95 conflict.

Bosnian police have arrested two men suspected of committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners in Zavidovici and Brcko during the 1992-95 conflict.

A witness testified that after he was detained as a teenager, he heard that fighter Nikola Maric, on trial for the persecution and killings of Bosniaks in the Prozor area, shot his father dead.

The trial of Bosniak former soldier Vehid Subotic over a massacre in the village of Dusina near Zenica in 1993 was told that an eyewitness saw the defendant order the killings.