MOSTAR, July 25 (Hina) - A five-member trial chamber of the Herzegovina-Neretva Cantonal Court (consisting of judges of all three constituent peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Croat, Moslem or Bosniak and Serb), on Tuesday unanimously
accepted a ruling which sentenced three Moslem policemen to prison for assassination of a Serb family in Konjic, (50 kilometres south of Sarajevo) in 1992. Policemen Miralem Macic and Adem Landzo were sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, whereas Jusuf Potur to nine years for committing a war crime. The chamber chairman, Reuf Zaimovic, said this trial before the court in Mostar had been conducted with consent of the Hague-based International War Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This verdict was the first of such kind to have been proclaimed by local courts in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to the indictment, the three policemen b
MOSTAR, July 25 (Hina) - A five-member trial chamber of the
Herzegovina-Neretva Cantonal Court (consisting of judges of all
three constituent peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Croat, Moslem or
Bosniak and Serb), on Tuesday unanimously accepted a ruling which
sentenced three Moslem policemen to prison for assassination of a
Serb family in Konjic, (50 kilometres south of Sarajevo) in 1992.
Policemen Miralem Macic and Adem Landzo were sentenced to 12 years'
imprisonment, whereas Jusuf Potur to nine years for committing a
war crime.
The chamber chairman, Reuf Zaimovic, said this trial before the
court in Mostar had been conducted with consent of the Hague-based
International War Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
This verdict was the first of such kind to have been proclaimed by
local courts in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
According to the indictment, the three policemen broke into the
flat of the four-member Serb family and killed Mr. Golubovic, his
wife and their two children under age, in July 1992.
Zaimovic added that court proceedings had been instigated by Konjic
police.
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