At the trial of five Bosniak ex-fighters for abusing Croat detainees, a witness testified that the defendants were responsible for beatings and sexual abuse at the Crna Kuca prison in Kruscica.
At the trial of five former Bosnian Army soldiers for wartime prisoner abuse in the Vitez area, a prosecution witness testified that he was beaten up and subjected to a mock execution.
The trial of former Bosnian Army members Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal, Hazim Patkovic and Semsudin Djelilovic began with a reading of the indictment and the state prosecution’s opening statements. The defendants have been charged with committing war crimes against Croat civilians and prisoners of war in Kruscica in the municipality of Vitez.
The state prosecution filed an indictment against five men suspected of war crimes in Vitez.
After a trial that has lasted eight months, the Bosnian state court will hand down a verdict in the Jasmin Coloman trial on July 6. Coloman, a former member of the Reconnaissance Squad of the Seventh Muslim Brigade of the Bosnian Army, has been charged with killing and wounding civilians in Poculica, near Vitez.
The Bosnian state prosecution called upon the state court to find Jasmin Coloman guilty of murdering and wounding civilians in Poculice, near Vitez. The defense called for a verdict of release.
The presentation of evidence at the Jasmin Coloman trial concluded with testimony from Coloman and the presentation of material evidence by the defense.
The first defense witness at the Jasmin Coloman trial, said he was with Coloman in the village of Krcevine in April 1993, at the time of his alleged crimes.
22 years ago, an explosion of a truck bomb in the old part of Vitez killed five civilians. Witnesses of this terrorist act remember the chaos caused by the explosion, the shattered bodies, the wounded neighbors, and the destroyed settlement.
The 22nd anniversary of the death of 116 Bosniak civilians who were killed by extreme elements of the Croatian Defense Council was commemorated today in Ahmici, near Vitez.