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Plea Deals and Trial Delays: Serbia’s Problems with Srebrenica Cases

Plea Deals and Trial Delays: Serbia’s Problems with Srebrenica Cases
BalkanInsight_logoAlthough Serbia has been prosecuting some Bosnian Serb ex-soldiers and policemen for crimes committed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacres, the cases have been marred by repeated delays and experts say the final sentences are inexplicably lenient.

Ahmo Ahmic, Azis Ahmic, Salko Avdic and Sakib Becirovic are only few of the dozens of people whose remains were founded in a mass grave in Ravnice, some 20 kilometres north-west of the town of Srebrenica and some six kilometres from the warehouse in which they were executed 28 years ago.

On July 13 and 14, 1995 Bosnian Serb forces killed 1,313 Bosniak men in the warehouse in the village of Kravica after they were captured following the fall of Srebrenica.

The four names were among those read out by judge Mirjana Ilic at Belgrade Higher Court during a hearing on June 30, when the court was examining evidence including death certificates and DNA findings about the identities of the victims who were found in the Ravnice mass grave and others around Srebrenica.

The court is currently trying seven members of the Republika Srpska Interior Ministry’s Special Police Brigade for their alleged involvement in the executions at the Kravica warehouse.


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