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Week ahead: Closing Argument at Suljo Karajic's Trial

05 February 2010  The trial of Suljo Karajic, indicted for crimes against prisoners-of-war and civilians in Bihac, is due to be completed with the presentation of closing argument, before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by the Defence on Thursday, February 11.

Karajic, former Commander of the Second Military Police Squad with the 505th Motorized Cavalry Brigade of the Fifth Corp with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, is charged with crimes against prisoners-of-war and civilians committed in the Bihac District during 1994 and 1995. In its closing argument the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina called on the Court to sentence Karajic to long-term imprisonment for these crimes.

On Tuesday, February 9 Cerim Novalic is due to enter his plea to the charges that he raped one woman, after having come to her house accompanied by an unidentified soldier, in Dzepa village, Konjic municipality, in September 1992.

The first Prosecution witnesses are due to appear at the trial of Darko Dolic on Friday, February 12. The indictment alleges that the former member of the "Jastrebovi" ("Hawks") Reconnaissance Squad of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, participated in the physical abuse and robbing of Bosniak civilians and the rape of three women in Prozor municipality in July and August 1993.

At the trial of the six indictees who are charged with crimes committed at Koricanske stijene the Defence of indictee Milorad Skrbic is due to begin presenting evidence on February 8 and 9. The Prosecution charges Skrbic, Zoran Babic, Milorad Radakovic, Ljubisa Cetic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic, former members of the Interventions Squad with the Public Safety Station in Prijedor, with shooting about 200 men at Koricanske stijene on August 21, 1992.

Another trial for the Koricanske stijene crime is due to continue on Thursday, February 11, when Petar Civcic, Sasa Zecevic, Marinko Ljepoja, Radoslav Knezevic and Branko Topola are due to appear before the Court.

On February 8 the Prosecution is due to present evidence at the trial of Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, who are charged with participation in genocide at Srebrenica in July 1995. The Prosecution considers the two former members of the Zvornik Brigade Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, responsible for the murder of several hundred men in Pilica Cultural Center and at Branjevo military farm in Zvornik municipality.

On Tuesday, February 9 and Wednesday, February 10 the examination of Gojko Klickovic's Defence witnesses is due to continue. Klickovic, Jovan Ostojic and Mladen Drljaca are charged with a number of crimes against the non-Serb population of Bosanska Krupa in 1992.

On Wednesday next week the Prosecution is due to continue presenting evidence against Adil Ruznic, Mehura Selimovic and Emir Mustafic, former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with having assisted in and motivated the detention of members of the Republika Srpska Army and police and civilians in detention centers in Bihac, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac from February 1994 to February 1996.

On the same day new Defence witnesses are due to appear at the trial of Nisvet Gasal, Musajb Kukavica, Enes Handzic and Senad Dautovic, whom the Prosecution argues were responsible for the functioning of the "Iskra" stadium detention camp in Bugojno, in which about 300 Croat civilians were held in inhumane conditions during 1993 and 1994.

Alija Osmic, a former member of the Military Police Squad with the 307th Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is charged with crimes against Bosnian Croats in detention camps in Bugojno, is due to appear before the Court on February 11.

On the same day the trials are due to continue in the case of Radoje Lalovic and Soniboj Skiljevic, who are charged with crimes committed in "Butmir" Penal and Correctional facility in Kula, near Sarajevo, and Zeljko Ivanovic, a former member of the Second Special Police Squad from Sekovici, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica and participation in the shooting of more than 1,000 men in the Kravica Agricultural Cooperative on July 13, 1995.