Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović lose appeal at The Hague over crimes in 1990s Balkan wars
of two allies of the late Serbian president Slobodan Milošević, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes – across Bosnia and Herzegovina and in one town in Croatia – as members of a joint plan to ethnically cleanse non-Serbs from the areas during the 1990s wars in the Balkans.
The chamber found that Stanišić and Simatović “shared the intent to further the common criminal plan to forcibly and permanently remove the majority of non-Serbs from large areas of Croatia and Bosnia”, said the presiding judge, Graciela Gatti Santana, reading a summary of the verdict expanding their convictions.
The defendants and their prosecutors both appealed against the men’s previous conviction in 2021, in which they were found guilty of aiding and abetting crimes in just one town, Bosanski Šamac.
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