Week ahead: Court To Consider Plea Agreement
20 August 2010 Next week the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will consider a plea agreement reached between the State Prosecution and Elvir Jakupovic who is charged with crimes against prisoners of war in Travnik.
Jakupovic, a former member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is charged with murdering a captured member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, in the village of Slimena in the Travnik municipality. The agreement will be discussed at a hearing scheduled for August 23.
On August 25, the trial of Mensur Memic, Dzevad Salcin, Nedzad Hodzic, Nihad Bojadzic, Senad Hakalovic and Zulfikar Alispago begins. They are former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina who are charged with crimes committed against Bosnian Croats in the village of Trusina in the Konjic municipality.
On the same day, former policeman Srpko Pustivuk is due to enter his plea to the allegations that he committed crimes in Ilijas. He is charged with participating in an attack against civilians and captured Bosniaks in the village of Gornja Bioca in the Ilijas municipality.
The retrial of Sefik Alic, a former member of the Hamze Squad with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues on August 23. In April 2008 a first instance verdict acquitted Alic of abusing captured members of the Serbian Krajina Army and failing to open an investigation and punish the perpetrators who killed four prisoners in August 1995.
On August 23 and August 26, the case of Sasa Zecevic, Radoslav Knezevic, Petar Civcic, Branko Topola and Marinko Ljepoja continues. They are charged with shooting 200 Prijedor residents at Koricanske stijene. The trial of Dusko Jevic, Mendeljev Djuric, Goran Markovic and Nedjo Ikonic, who are charged with genocide at Srebrenica, also continues.
Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, former members of the Zvornik Brigade Command with the Republika Srpska Army, are also charged with genocide. Their trial is will continue on August 24.
On August 24 and August 25, the defence is due to continue presenting evidence at the trial of Gojko Klickovic, Jovan Ostojic and Mladen Drljaca who are charged with crimes committed in Bosanska Krupa.
At the trial for crimes committed against Bosnian Croats in Bugojno, scheduled to continue on August 25, two witnesses for Enes Handzic’s defence will be heard from. Besides Handzic, the State Prosecution charges the crimes committed in Bugojno upon Nisvet Gasal, Musajb Kukavica and Senad Dautovic. Alija Osmic, a former member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is charged with crimes committed in the same area, is due to appear in court on August 26.
On August 25, the trial of Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues. They are charged with crimes against Serbian civilians and soldiers who were held in detention in Bihac, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac.
The trials of Zeljko Ivanovic, who is charged with genocide committed at Srebrenica, and Darko Dolic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council accused of crimes committed in Prozor, continues on August 26.
E.M.
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