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The Trial Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rendered, on 2 July 2015, a verdict acquitting the accused of all the charges for the criminal offense of genocide under Article 171(a) and (b) of the Criminal Code of BiH, as read with Article 29 of the same Code. [161]
Mirko Norac (born 1967), Croatian Army general sentenced to 12 years in prison for various war crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence. Slobodan Praljak (1945–2017), Bosnian Croat general sentenced to 20 years in prison by the ICC for war crimes committed against the Bosniak population. He committed suicide upon hearing of ...
The list includes those whose indictments were withdrawn by the ICTY. Dražen Erdemović, a Bosnian Croat fighting in the Bosnian Serb contingent, and Franko Simatović, an ethnic Croat and high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Service, are the only indictees on this list who crossed either religious and/or ethnic lines.
On 24 March 2016, former Bosnian Serb leader and the first president of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 2019 an appeals court increased his sentence to life imprisonment. [20]
Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation: [slobǒdan prǎːʎak]; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat war criminal who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995.
Bosniak Muslims, particularly in Eastern Bosnia, comprised a large contingent of Ustashe units in the region and played a large role in the genocide of ethnic Serbs in the area that began in 1941. Bosniaks, later in the war, also joined the Waffen SS units that were notorious for their cruelty to the Serbian population.
Helsinki Watch could not verify civilian casualties in Sijekovac because the killings occurred during military warfare between the warring sides. The claims of murdered civilians in the case of Sijekovac come from the post-war Bosnian Serb authorities. Sanski Most ethnic cleansing: 1992–1995 Sanski Most: VRS: Bosniaks, Croats: 927 [4]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has processed the following for war crimes in Višegrad: Milan Lukić (Life) [8] Sredoje Lukić (30 years, [8] 27 years upon appeal) Mitar Vasiljević (20 years, [10] 15 years upon appeal) Boban Šimšić (14 years) [28] Željko Lelek (13 years ...