Former Bosnian Serb policemen Goran Vujovic, Miroslav Duka and Zeljko Ilic were sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison for crimes against humanity in Bileca in 1992.
The defence lawyer for Zeljko Ilic, one of three former policeman accused of crimes against humanity in the Bileca area in 1992, called for his client to be acquitted.
Statements by relatives of people kidnapped from a train in Strpci in February 1993 and later killed said they first heard of the abductions through the media.
A witness testifying in defense of Miroslav Duka said he was told that paramilitary soldiers had apprehended Bosniaks and took them to the Bileca police station in June 1992. Duka, Goran Vujovic and Zeljko Ilic have been charged with war crimes in Bileca.
At the trial of three defendants charged with war crimes in Bileca, the defense of Miroslav Duka included 23 pieces of material evidence in the case file. The evidence included a statement given by a deceased witness, who said no one was taken away or mistreated in the village of Zausje.
The Bosnian state prosecution demanded a longer jail sentence for Vitomir Rackovic, who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for crimes committed in Visegrad under a first instance verdict. In a written appeal, Rackovic’s defense asked the court to either acquit him of charges or repeal the verdict.
A defense witness testifying at the trial of three former Bosnian Serb policemen said defendant Miroslav Duka and his reserve police company were on a battlefield from June to December 1992, the time period of his alleged crimes.
Testifying in defense of Miroslav Duka, a witness said he didn’t notice injuries on Bosniak prisoners in a prison in Bileca.
Witnesses testifying in defense of Miroslav Duka said they lived and worked in Bileca in 1992 and weren’t discriminated or mistreated by Serb police forces due to their ethnicity.
A former Republika Srpska official testifying in Goran Vujovic’s defense said he spoke to detainees held in the student dormitory in Bileca in 1992. The witness said they didn’t complain to him about their living conditions, and added that he didn’t see any injuries on their body.
The state prosecution filed more than 20 pieces of material evidence at the trial of Goran Vujovic, Miroslav Duka and Zeljko Ilic. The evidence included documents on the existence of detention facilities in Bileca, as well as the release of detainees from those facilities.
The state prosecution presented more than 50 pieces of material evidence at the trial of three former members of Bosnian Serb police forces charged with war crimes in Bileca. The evidence included documentation on the arrest of Bosniaks by police forces in Bileca.