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Official allowances paid to paramilitaries involved in wartime crimes in Bosnia showed that Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic were responsible for killings and expulsions, the UN court established this week.
The landmark verdict convicting two high-ranking Serbian State Security officials proved that Serbia played a role in the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and showed there can be justice for crimes committed by state-sponsored paramilitaries.
The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre urged Serbia to start prosecuting surviving members of notorious criminal Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s Serbian Volunteer Guard for their role in wartime crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.
The prosecution appealed for former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic to be convicted of participating in a joint criminal enterprise to forcibly remove non-Serbs from parts of Croatia and Bosnia.