The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the first-instance verdict by which five former members of the police were sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison, while three were acquitted of crimes against the civilian population in Janja from 1992 to 1994.
It was announced from the Court of BiH that the second-instance verdict was sent, which dismissed the appeals of the State Prosecutor’s Office and the defense attorneys of Milan Đokić, Branislav Trišić, Zoran Tanasić, Žarko Milanović and Mladen Krajišnik as unfounded, and confirmed the verdict from June 2023.
For war crimes against the civilian population, Đokić and Trišić were sentenced to three years each, and Tanasić, Milanović and Krajišnik to two years each.
Savo Mršić, Milivoje Čobić and Milan Marković were acquitted of all charges.
The announcement states that – during the armed conflict in BiH, from the second half of September 1992 to the first half of 1994 – Trišić as an operative of the Bijeljina National Security Service, and Tanasić, Milanović and Krajišnik as policemen, tortured Bosniak civilians. Đokić, in his capacity as the commander of the Station Department of the Janja militia, was convicted of aiding torture.
Đokić was found guilty of failing to prevent others from abusing civilians brought in for questioning about weapons. Trišić was convicted of beating three civilians with a metal rod and hands, and Tanasić of beating two civilians. The first-instance verdict found that Milanović and Krajišnik hit one civilian each.
Mršić, Čobić and Marković were acquitted of beating civilians, one of whom later died.
No appeal is allowed against this verdict, reports Detektor.
