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Bosnian Train Massacre Defendant Dies Before Retrial Gets Underway

Bosnian Train Massacre Defendant Dies Before Retrial Gets Underway
BalkanInsight_logoJovan Lipovac, one of four Serb ex-fighters being prosecuted in Belgrade for involvement in the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train at Strpci in Bosnia in 1993, died before the first hearing in his retrial.

Belgrade Higher Court confirmed to BIRN that proceedings against former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Jovan Lipovac, who was one of four ex-fighters on trial in the long-running Strpci train massacre case, have been discontinued because of his death on February 25.

Lipovac was on trial alongside alleged former paramilitaries Gojko Lukic, Dusko Vasiljevic and Dragana Djekic for participating in the abduction of 20 non-Serb passengers from a train in Strpci station in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. All the captive passengers were subsequently killed.


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