On 16 November 2021, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered and publicly pronounced a trial judgment in the case of Ranko Babić et al.
The accused Bratislav Bilbija and Đuro Adamović were found guilty, namely the accused Bratislav Bilbija of the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 142(1) of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY), and the accused Đuro Adamović also in relation to Article 22 of the same Code. The Court sentenced the accused Bratislav Bilbija to 2 (two) years of imprisonment, and the accused Đuro Adamović to 3 (three) years of imprisonment.
The accused Bratislav Bilbija and Đuro Adamović are found guilty that during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the territory of Prijedor municipality, on an undetermined day in August 1992, in the framework of an armed attack launched by the military, police and paramilitary units of the Army of Republika Srpska on the non-Serb civilian population of the Prijedor municipality, acting in violation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, as members of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), subjected to inhumane treatment non-Serb civilians in the hamlet of Bukvik, settlement of Ljeskare, municipality of Prijedor.
The accused Ranko Babić, Bratislav Bilbija and Đuro Adamović are acquitted of the charges that they committed the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity.
