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The War Crimes Section of the State Prosecution filed an indictment against eight former policemen from Prijedor for their participation in a crime committed at Koricanske stijene in August 1992. The indictment has been forwarded to the State Court for confirmation.

‘Batko’ Vlaholic’s name was synonymous with terror in Grbavica in 1992, but years on, he apparently remains a free man. The name Veselin Vlahovic “Batko” continues to inspire fear among those who endured terror in the Sarajevo district of Grbavica during the war years. None of the arrest warrants issued so far have led to his actual arrest.

Ismet Bajramovic–Celo, right, a Sarajevo wartime commander and alleged mafia godfather, has been found dead in his apartment. Initial evidence suggests that he may have committed suicide.

Slobodan Franovic (on right), President of the Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, reacts quite strongly against his own country’s recent hearing before United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism in Geneva.

Thirteen years after the United States brokered the Dayton peace agreement to end modern Europe’s most ferocious ethnic war, fears are mounting that Bosnia and Herzegovina, poor and divided, is again teetering toward crisis.

The Office of Bosnia’s top international envoy, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak, has demanded local leaders stop their growing criticism of the international community.

Youth group of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H held a street action in the centre of Sarajevo on occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized on 4th December in Sarajevo a round table on topic „Human Rights in the Area of Enviroment and Sustainable Development“. Round table was supported by Heinrich Boll Foundation.

A Bosnian muslim was jailed for five years on Tuesday for crimes against Serb civilians during the war in Bosnia in 1992 in the first war crimes case in Norway since the trials of Norwegians who collaborated with the Nazis.