On Monday, October 9, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Miroslav Marković to 13 years in prison for a war crime committed in the summer of 1992 in the area of Zvornik, in the east of the country, the Balkan Research Network (BIRN) reports.
Marković was convicted of a crime against humanity by a first-instance verdict, which can be appealed, and was found guilty of participating in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Lokanj in Zvornik.
The indictment of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH states that Marković, as a member of the Lokanje Company of the Zvornik Brigade of the Army of the Republika Srpska, participated in the imprisonment, abuse and murder of 67 Bosniak civilians in the Lokanje area in July 1992.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a decision ordering Marković to be detained in absentia. Marković, who lives in Austria, did not appear at the first-instance verdict, writes BIRN.
Because of the crime in the village of Lokanj, Ljiljan Mitrović, Mile Vujević, Vukašin Drašković and Gojko Stevanović were previously sentenced to a total of 53 years in prison, while Goran Maksimović, Slavko Perić, Rajo Lazarević and Mićo Manojlović were acquitted.
One of the biggest crimes was committed in the area of Zvornik during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, and around 400 people are still being sought.
Momčilo Krajišnik, Biljana Plavšić, Mićo Stanišić and Stojan Župljanin were found guilty of war crimes in the area of this municipality before the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia.
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