Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB) and the Canadian Institute for Research of Genocide are disappointed with the extremely lenient decision by the U.S. court regarding the case of Milenko Krstic, a Bosnian Serb and the father of a former Miss Oregon who lied about his army service during the war in Bosnia when he applied for asylum in the United States. Krstic has been sentenced to only one year of probation, the most lenient federal sentence for a felony crime last week.

Emir Hadzikadunic, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Islamic Republic of Iran earlier today attended the meeting with Mohammad Parsa, Director General of SUNIR (www.sunir.com) and its senior management. The meeting was held on the premises of this important Iranian electro-energetic consortium

“Many witnesses, actually nearly 95 per cent of them, are Veselin Vlahovic’s victims. In their statements they described him as 'the master of life and death'. Most victims have returned to their pre-war places of residence where Vlahovic was during the course of the war. By releasing him to liberty, he would be able to find them and influence them,” Campara said.

Sasa Zecevic, Radoslav Knezevic, Petar Civcic, Branko Topola and Marinko Ljepoja are charged with participating in escorting a convoy of civilians travelling from Prijedor to Travnik and selecting about 200 men who were then shot at Koricanske stijene on August 21, 1992.

The extradition to Bosnia and Herzegovina was postponed last week, but Bosnia’s ambassador to Spain told BIRN Justice Report that the process had resumed.

"I spoke to the Spanish judge who told me the extradition process was going to continue," said Zeljana Zovko.

They were arrested in May and can now be detained until October 18.

The duo are suspected of participating in the capture and abuse of Bosniaks from the Kalinovik area during 1992. Prosecutors allege that Peric was an active policeman with the Public Safety Station, SJB, in Kalinovik and Lalovic was a guard at the Miladin Radojevic school building where civilians were held.

Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Tomasz Blaszczyk, Hague Prosecution investigator, says he personally took over the materials confiscated in the apartment of Ratko Mladic’s wife, adding he was responsible for transferring them to the Hague Tribunal.

Blaszczyk explained that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, MUP, of Serbia searched Bosiljka Mladic’s apartment in December 2008 and February this year, saying he personally took over the materials that were confiscated during the course of the search, and transferred them to the Hague.

The Phoenix defendants were indicted separately and pled guilty to lying about their military service. Five of the 16 were deported from the United States and returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Upon arrival in Bosnia and Herzegovina, three of them - Mladen Blagojevic, Zdravko Bozic and Goran Bencun - were arrested and brought before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a domestic court that includes international judges and prosecutors.

A pre-trial status conference is scheduled next week before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case of indictees charged with crimes committed in Drvar.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has confirmed an indictment against four former members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad with the Republika Srpska Army for genocide committed at Srebrenica.

According to verdicts of the Hague Tribunal, at the end of May 1992 Serb forces in Prijedor formed the Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps. Omarska camp was placed near the former coal mine in the Omarska village. During its work, more then 3000 detainees were held there, and a third was killed.

Amor Masovic, the Chairman of the Institute’s Board of Directors, told Balkan Insight: "All of them were thrown into the lake in Visegrad or a few kilometres farther in Muhici and Krutalici, where they had been killed.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has again extended the custody of a former member of the Public Safety Station in Ilijas who is charged with crimes against civilians in the Sarajevo area.

BAACBH welcomes and applauds the UK Court's decision to throw out Serbia's extradition request of Mr. Ejup Ganic, former member of the wartime presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as abusive and politically motivated. Mr. Ganic was arrested on March 1, 2010, at London's Heathrow Airport on the basis of Serbia's warrant for his extradition. The British judge's decision in the case proves the invalidity of Serbia's indictment against Mr. Ganic along with its claims in the Dobrovoljacka case and confirms Serbia's political motivation behind Mr. Ganic's extradition request.

Etobicoke - On July 11, 2010 Liberal M.P. Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) joined members of the Bosniak community in commemorating Srebrenica Remembrance Day at the Bosnian Islamic Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario.

In his address at this year's commemoration marking the 15th anniversary of this terrible crime, when the UN declared safe haven of Srebrenica was overrun and over 8,000 innocent Muslim men were massacred as UN peacekeepers and the international community stood by, Wrzesnewskyj praised the efforts of the members of the Bosnian Islamic Centre who worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the Srebrenica genocide.