The defense of Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic, charged with wartime rape in Bihac, called upon the court to hand down an acquittal in their case. The state court has scheduled the verdict for March 16.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against Sasa Curguz, charging him with crimes against the Bosniak population in the Bihac area in the summer of 1992.
Although the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina repealed the verdict in the Suljo Karajic case due to the incorrect application of law, the state prosecution is sticking to its previous legal classification of his crimes. Karajic was sentenced to 18 years in prison for crimes committed in Krajina.
Testifying in his own defense, Zeljko Stanarevic said he didn’t participate in an attack on the Ljutocka Valley in the municipality of Bihac during the summer of 1992. He said he saw prisoners from a detention camp in Ripac once, when he was given a ride on a truck transporting the prisoners.
Testifying at the trial of Zeljko Stanarevic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army charged with crimes committed in the Bihac area, a defense witness said he hadn’t heard of wartime murders in Ripac.
Following a retrial, the cantonal court of Bihac acquitted Muhamed Anadolac of charges of war crimes in Bihac and Cazin.
A defense witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said he believed he gave the defendant, a former Bosnian Serb military police officer, a drive to the Gorjevac area in Bihac. The witness, also a member of the military police, was driving civilian detainees to Hrgar, a village in the municipality of Bihac.
Testifying in his own defense, Bekir Mesic described what happened on May 1, 1994, the night he allegedly raped a woman in Bihac.