At the end of the year, the prosecution filed two separate indictments related to the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in both cases charging members of the Zvornik Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army.
The first one charged Zoran Simanic, nicknamed Zajdo, and Dragan Jovic, nicknamed Mujo, with aiding the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica by participating in the shooting of prisoners.
The second Srebrenica indictment charged Dragan Jevtic, Slavko Bogicevic, nicknamed Brko, and Damjan Lazarevic with participating in the preparing of locations for mass executions, as well as in securing machinery and troops for the burial of the bodies.
A separate indictment charged Radislav Krstic, a senior wartime Bosnian Serb Army officer – who the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, already convicted of aiding the genocide in Srebrenica – with other crimes.
The former commander of the Second Romanija Motorised Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army was now indicted for committing war crimes in September 1992 in the village of Novoseoci, near Sokolac. As he is already serving a 35-year prison sentence in Estonia, it is unclear how a new trial for him can be held.
In addition to these indictments, the state prosecution charged Nesib Talic, Jusuf Karalic, Nasid Delalic and Sabahudin Sarajlic, former members of the military security and military police in the 7th Muslim Brigade of the Bosnian Army, with war crimes against Serb and Croat civilians detained at the Music School in Zenica in 1993.
Meanwhile, Sead Arnautovic and Samir Mehinovic were charged with crimes against prisoners-of-war in the Doboj area during 1992. Mensud Kelestura and Hazim Jasarevic were charged with involvement in an attack in Vitez in June 1993, when eight Croat children were killed and five others wounded.
An indictment charged Mirsad Sestic with war crimes against the civilian population, including wounded and sick people, in the Zepce area in 1993. Among other charges, he is accused of using ‘human shields’ that included a baby, and of abusing journalists.
Enes Gurda and Nihad Camdzic-Brcaninovic, nicknamed Mrakan, were charged with inhumane treatment of Serb civilians detained in the Zivinice area in 1992. Gurda was charged as a security officer of the Territorial Defence of Zivinice, and Camdzic-Brcaninovic as a member of the Military Police of the Territorial Defence of Zivinice.
An indictment charged six individuals over crimes against humanity in the village of Biljani near Kljuc in the summer of 1992. Braco Maric, Dragan Vukic, nicknamed Rosin, Ranko Samardzija, Savo Jokic, Miso Adamovic and Milorad Kaurin, nicknamed Karlo, are accused of killing several dozen people and committing inhumane acts against illegally detained civilians.
Splitting of indictments questioned