Monitoring war crime trials
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Crime in Lički Osik Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal On 4 October 2010, the main hearing began before the Higher Court in Belgrade in the trial against four former members of police forces of the so called SAO Krajina. They have been indicted for committing a war crime against civilians - murder of a five-member family Rakić in Lički Osik in October 1991.
On 14 March 2011, all four defendants were found guilty. Each defendant received a prison sentence in the duration of 12 years.
In November 2011, the Court of Appeals in Belgrade quashed the verdict rendered on 14 March 2011 and remanded the case back to the first instance court for retrial.
On 16 March 2012, the court pronounced the first-instance verdict in which the defendants were found guilty again.
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Crime in Beli Manastir Trials in Serbia :: Ongoing trials On 1 November 2010 began the main hearing before the Higher Court in Belgrade in the trial against four former members of Serb formations indicted for a commission of war crime against civilians in the second half of 1991 in the area of former Municipality Beli Manastir.
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Crime in Sremska Mitrovica (defendant Marko Crevar) Trials in Serbia :: Trial against Marko Crevar, charged with a war crime against prisoners of war referred to in Article 144 of the Criminal Law Act of the Socialistic Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Crime in Medak Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal On 23 June 2010, the Higher Court in Belgrade pronounced the first instance verdict (verdict before appeal) finding the defendants Milorad Lazić, Mirko Marunić and Nikola Konjević guilty of war crime against war prisoners that was committed in 1991 in Medak near Gospić. The defendant Perica Đaković was acquitted of charges. On 19 January 2011, the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade Appeals Court reached a verdict by which it upheld the first-instance verdict in the case of Milorad Lazić, Mirko Marunić and Nikola Konjević, and it quashed the first-instance verdict and remanded the case for retrial in the case of Perica Đaković.
After conducted repeated trial at the Belgrade Higher Court on 1 July 2011, the verdict was pronounced acquitting Perica Đaković once again. The Verdict is final and conclusive.
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War crime in Lovas Trials in Serbia :: Verdict before appeal Trial against fourteen defendants (Ljuban Devetak at al), indicted for committing in Lovas in October and November 1991 a war crime against civTrial against fourteen defendants (Ljuban Devetak at al), indicted for committing in Lovas in October and November 1991 a war crime against civilians under Article 142, paragraph 1 of the FRY Criminal Act, acting as accessories, in conjunction with Article 22 of the same Act.ilians under Article 142, paragraph 1 of the FRY Criminal Act, acting as accessories, in conjunction with Article 22 of the same Act. |
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Crime in Ovčara (Saša Radak) Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal The trial against the defendant Saša Radak, accused of the commission of a war crime against war prisoners in 1991 at the Ovčara farm, was held before the War Crimes Chamber of the Special Department of the District Court in Belgrade from 7 July 2005 to 7 September 2006. The verdict before appeal (first instance) was reached sentencing the defendant to 20 years in prison. |
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Crime in Grubišno Polje Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal Trial against Veljko Marić, indicted for a war crime against civilians under Article 142, paragraph 1 of the KZ SRJ.
In the first instance verdict pronounced on 23 September 2011, defendant Marić was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The Appellate Court confirmed the first-instance verdict.
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Crima in Stara Gradiška Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal The trial against Milan Španović for a war crime against civilians (Croatian civilians in a prison in Stara Gradiška) began on 17 September 2009 before the Higher Court in Belgrade in the Republic of Serbia.
The first instance verdict was pronounced on 25 June 2010. In the verdict, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The second-instance verdict rendered on 24 January 2011 upheld the first- instance verdict.
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Crime in Banski Kovačevac Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal
On 15 March 2010, a verdict (first-instance) was pronounced by the District Court in Belgrade in the Pane Bulat and Rade Vranešević case. They were charged that they committed a war crime against civilians by killing 6 Croats in Banski Kovačevac near Karlovac in March 1992. The Court found them guilty. Bulat was sentenced to 15- and Vranešević to 12 years in prison.
In the second-instance verdict rendered on 14 February 2011, Pane Bulat was sentenced to 20 years and Rade Vranešević to 13 years in prison.
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Crime committed in the home of the Sever family in Vukovar Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal On 1 November 2010, the Higher Court in Belgrade found the defendant Stanko Vujanović guilty of war crime against civilians under Article 142, paragraph 1 of the KZSRJ and sentenced him to 9 years in prison. The previous 20-year prison sentence for the crime at Ovčara was taken into consideration in respect of the defendant. Therefore, he received an aggregated sentence of 20 years. In March 2011, the Appellate Court confirmed the first-instance verdict.
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Crime in Ćelije Trials in Serbia :: Verdict before appeal The trial in the Darko Radivoj case began at the Higher Court in Belgrade on 6 May 2010. The defendant was charged that he killed in November 1991 a detained member of the Croatian Army (HV), and thereby committed a war crime against war prisoners under Article 144 of Yugoslav Criminal Code (KZJ). War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade pronounced a verdict on 17 November 2010 finding the defendant guilty and sentencing him to 10 years in prison.
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Crime in Velika Peratovica near Grubišno Polje Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal
On 27 May 2009, the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade pronounced a 10-year prison sentence to Boro Trbojević for a war crime against civilians committed in the Grubišno Polje municipality area in 1991.
In December 2009, the verdict was upheld.
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Crime in Dubrovnik Trials in Serbia :: In December 2007, the District Court in Belgrade dismissed the Indictment of the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia that had been laid against Vladimir Kovačević "Rambo" accused of the commission of a war crime against civilians during the shelling on Dubrovnik in 1991. The court dismissed it because of the mental illness of the defendant.
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Crima in Slunj (trial in Serbia) Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal On 11 February 2009, the Supreme Court of Serbia in its final verdict accepted the appeal by the Prosecution. Following to that, the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade of 8 July 2008 was modified in respect of the sentence pronounced to Zdravko Pašić. Pašić received a final sentence (legally binding) of 10 years imprisonment because he committed a war crime against civilians by killing one doctor of Croatian ethnicity Dragutin Krušić in Slunj in 1991.
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Crime in Ovčara (Damir Sireta) Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal On 23 June 2009, the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade sentenced Damir Sireta to a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years for the commission of a war crime in 1991 at the Ovčara farm near Vukovar against 200 (identified 193) Croatian prisoners of war. On 20 September 2010, it was publicly announced that the War Crimes Department of the Appellate Court in Belgrade reduced from 20 to 15 years the prison term to Sireta.
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Crime in Zvornik Trials in Serbia :: Verdict before appeal The trial for a war crime against civilians, committed in Zvornik in 1992, is conducted before the War Crimes Chamber of the Special War Crimes Department of the District Court in Belgrade.
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Crime in Ovčara (Miroljub Vujović et al. case) Trials in Serbia :: Verdict before appeal On 12 March 2009, following the retrial in the case against defendant Miroljub Vujović at al. for war crimes against war prisoners committed in 1991 at the Ovčara farm, the verdict was pronounced before the non-altered War Crimes Chamber of the Special Department of the District Court in Belgrade. |
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Crime in Ovčara (Milan Bulić) Trials in Serbia :: Verdict after appeal Supreme Court of Serbia altered the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade and sentenced Milan Bulić to 2 years in prison for the commission of war crimes against war prisoners by torturing prisoners of war on 20 and 21 November 1991 in Ovčara. |
- Monitoring War Crimes Trials:
Report for the period January-May 2011
Report for the period January-May 2010
Report for the period January-May 2009
Report for the period January-June 2008
Quarterly Reports
Report for January - March 2013
Report for May - August 2012
Annex to the Report: Overview of the monitored war crime trials
Report for January - April 2012
Annex to the Report: Overview of the monitored war crime trials
Bi-monthly Reports
Monitoring team:
Veselinka Kastratović
Mladen Stojanović
Jelena Đokić Jović
Maja Kovačević Bošković
Marko Sjekavica
Milena Čalić Jelić
Miren Špek
Contact person:
Mladen Stojanović
In cooperation with:Documenta Zagreb
Citizens Committee for Human Rights Zagreb
Humanitarian Law Centre Belgrade
Research and Documentation Centre Sarajevo
This project is funded by the European Union. The contents of these documents are the sole responsibility of the Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.
This project is also funded by:
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Zagreb
Embassy of the Republic of Finland in Zagreb
OSCE Office in Zagreb
Embassy of Australia in Zagreb
