Bosnian Court Convicts Ex-soldier for Having Committed Crimes Against Humanity

Bosnian Court Convicts Ex-soldier for Having Committed Crimes Against Humanity
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 João Victor Stuart

International Justice and Human Rights

Global Human Rights Defence

The Bosnian State Court found an ex-Bosnian soldier guilty for committing crimes against humanity in the Zvornik area during the Bosnian war in 1992, and sentenced him to seven years in prison. The defendant was convicted of participating in the killing of one person as well as assaulting another one. According to the words of the presiding judge, Ms. Zeljka Marenic, “the chamber found that Tomanic participated, within a widespread and systematic attack, in the persecution of the Bosniak population on ethnic grounds,”. Additionally, the Court detailed how the violations occurred. It described that Tomanic, accompanied by local residents, went to the village of Glumina in late May or early June 1992, looking for Bosniaks who were hiding in the woods. In this event, Tomanic and other Bosnian soldiers were responsible for shooting a men in his back when he tried to flee from them. The defendant failed to appear in court for the verdict, although by law he was not obliged to attend. The verdict can be appealed.

For further reading and source:

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/09/30/bosnian-serb-ex-soldier-convicted-of-wartime-murder-assault/