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Bosnia & Herzegovina·Human Rights

Bosnian Serb ex-soldier sentenced to 15 years for killing five civilians in 1992 village attack

Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 06:21 · 1 min read

Bosnia's state court has convicted Duško Zorić, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier, of crimes against humanity for killing five civilians during an attack on the village of Zečovi, near Prijedor (a town in northwestern Bosnia), on 23 July 1992. The court found that Zorić shot and killed the civilians in a group he had confronted at gunpoint, though it acquitted him of charges relating to a separate incident and reduced the number of killings proven from the 13 originally charged. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a first-instance verdict that can still be appealed; five co-defendants in the same case were collectively sentenced to 59 years under a final verdict in September 2024.

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Balkan InsightBosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Five in Village Attack ↗︎
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