On 3 June 2024 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced a Trial Judgment in the case of Zoran Ilić et al. (S1 1 K 020064 22 Kri), finding the accused Zoran Ilić guilty of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172(1)i), all in conjunction with Articles 29 and 180(1) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Court sentenced the accused Zoran Ilić to 11 (eleven) years of imprisonment.
The accused Zoran Ilić has been found guilty that during a period from late May 1992 to late 1993, in the Municipality of Rogatica, in the framework of a widespread and systematic attack launched by the Army of the Serb Republic of BiH, subsequently the Army of Republika Srpska, targeting the non-Serb civilian population in the territory of Rogatica municipality, as a member of the Army of the Serb Republic of BiH, subsequently the Army of Republika Srpska, specifically Rogatica Brigade VP 7084 Rogatica, knowing of the attack and that his actions form a part of the attack, in violation of the rules of international law, he took part in the enforced disappearance of people, Bosniak civilians from the settlement of Rudo, Municipality of Rogatica, in the manner that in the afternoon hours of 19 June 1992, in the settlement of Rudo, Municipality of Rogatica, armed and wearing a uniform, together with other soldiers known to him, he took part in an unlawful detention of Bosniak civilians. It is further said that the accused Zoran Ilić arrived in front of the basement of the house owned by M. J. in which Bosniak civilians had gathered, men, women and children, where they had been ordered to stay during the attack launched by the Army of the Serb Republic of BiH on the upper part if the Bosniak-populated settlement, after which he ordered all men to leave the basement and enter the courtyard in front of it for they were to be interned, which the men did, and were then lined up into a column and marched in an unknown direction under the threat of arms by Zoran Ilić and other soldiers known to him, since when they have all been unaccounted for, and their bodies have yet to be found.
Conversely, pursuant to Article 284c) CPC BiH, the accused Radenko Ilić is acquitted of all charges, for it was not proven that by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment he committed the criminal offense he has been charged with – Crimes against Humanity under Article 172(1)h) as read with Subparagraph i), all in conjunction with Articles 29 and 180(1) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
An appeal from the Judgment may be filed with an Appellate Division Panel of the Court within 15 (fifteen) days of the day when a written copy of the Judgment was served.