Zanatski centar, Brčko

On 7 May 1992, from the police station, which was a site of detention for Bosniaks at the time, member of VRS Goran Jelisić took two civilians, Husein Kršo and Hajrudin Muzurović, to the Zanatski centar Street and killed them. Belgrade photojournalists Bojan Stojanović and Srđan Petrović caught the killing with their cameras and their photographs were used as evidence of this war crime in Brčko before the ICTY. Barbara Matejčić wrote in detail about the murder of Kršo and Muzurović, and the role of photographer Stojanović in these events, in her award-winning investigative article “Ubijanje za fotografiju: Šta se krije iza jedinog snimka smrti u ratu u Jugoslaviji“ [Killing for the Photo: What lies behind the only live photo of death in the war in Yugoslavia]. According to her investigation, there are strong indications that Stojanović and Petrović did not just record the murder as photographers, but took part in it.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Momčilo Krajišnik, the wartime speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, for war crimes committed in Brčko, under the doctrine of command responsibility, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Biljana Plavšić, wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Radovan Karadžić, as the president of Republika Srpska and commander in chief of its armed forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Ranko Češić was sentenced to 18 years in prison, while Goran Jelisić was convicted by the ICTY on 5 July 2001 for crimes committed in the territory of Brčko and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Goran Jelisić pled guilty to five of thirteen murders committed in the vicinity of the Brčko Police Station.