Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

SARAJEVO, May 8 /SRNA/ - The Court of BiH pronounced a trial judgment on Wednesday sentencing Elfeta Veseli to ten years’ imprisonment for a brutal murder of 12-year-old Slobodan Stojanović near Zvornik in 1992, and acquitted her superior Sakib Halilović as commander of the Sabotage Platoon of the Joint Units Command Liplje, Kamenica, of the so-called Army of BiH.

Halilović was acquitted of the charge of observing the murder of the boy and omitting, as commander of the Sabotage Platoon of the Joint Units Command Liplje, Kamenica, of the so-called Army of BiH, to punish Veseli who was a member of the platoon.

The Trial Panel found Elfeta Veseli guilty, as a member of the Sabotage Platoon of the Joint Units Command Liplje, Kamenica, of the so-called Army of BiH, of firing a bullet into the boy’s head point blank and killing him in the second half of July or first half of August in 1992.

SARAJEVO, December 14 /SRNA/ - A protected witness of the BiH Prosecutor's Office “S-1” has said he saw Elfeta Veseli slitting Slobodan Stojanovic's throat, but did not see when she fired once or twice from a gun she pressed to boy’s head.

In the continuation of the Elfeta Vesela and Sakib Halilovic trial for the killing of 12-year-old boy Slobodan Stojanovic in 1992 near Zvornik, through the video link from Belgrade the witness described the events that preceded this terrible crime.

At the beginning of today's hearing, the witness said that he and approximately 100-120 members of the Fikret Mustafic Squipetar’s unit started in July 1992 from Cerska to take part in Kamenica operation in order to "liberate the area so the young and weak could get out of Srebrenica."

BELGRADE, September 29 /SRNA/ - Zoran Stankovic, a forensic expert from Belgrade who performed an autopsy on 12-year-old Serb boy named Slobodan Stojanovic, whose 1992 murder is charged on Elfeta Veseli, has told Srna he is prepared to appear before any court to elaborate on his autopsy report and opinion.

Stankovic says no one has got in touch with him yet regarding the case, but expects such a thing to happen and notes that his report and opinion are corroborated by not just the narrative but also all the photographs, which have been submitted to the competent prosecutor’s office and everyone else obliged to see them, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia /ICTY/.

Emphasising that the case is already being prosecuted and that an investigation is underway, Stankovic says that, according to the law, he can no longer comment on his report given he is now the subject of the trial and this is his legal obligation and restriction.