Borislav Herak
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Borislav Herak was a Serb soldier for the Serb army in Bosnia. He was sentenced to death by firing squad after confessing war crimes.
Herak recanted his testimony in January 1996 and now claims that his testimony before a Bosnian court was beaten out of him. In a major embarrassment for the Bosnian Government, two Muslim brothers whose supposed murders were used as evidence in a highly publicized war crimes trial to condemn Herak and Sretko Damjanović to death have been found living in a Sarajevo suburb.
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- Jailed Serbs' 'Victims' Found Alive, Embarrassing Bosnia - The New York Times, Chris Hedges March 1, 1997
- Serb Convicted of Murders Demanding Retrial After 2 `Victims' Found Alive - The Washington Post, Jonathan C. Randal March 15, 1997
- A public show in the sniper season - The Guardian, Maggie O'Kane March 13, 1993