PERSONS SUSPECTED OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY IN PRIJEDOR AREA ON ORDERS OF BIH PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

Acting pursuant to an Order issued by a Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes, police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) located persons in the area of Prijedor, who are suspected of the commission of the war crime in Čarakovo near Prijedor, in 1992, and deprived them of liberty.

Early this morning, the following persons were located and deprived of liberty in the area of Prijedor, pursuant to an Order issued by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

-      Dragomir Tintor, born in 1947 in Prijedor,

-      Mićo Jurišić, born in 1956 in Prijedor.

These suspects are subject to investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as they are suspected to have acted in contravention of the rules of the international humanitarian law and in violation of the provisions of the Geneva Conventions relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, while they were members of military and police structures of the Army of Republika Srpska in the area of Prijedor. They are charged with personal and direct involvement in the attacks on Bosniak civilian population in Čarakovo and in the surrounding places.

In the aforementioned places, there was a persecution of the Bosniak civilian population, which was perpetrated by way of a large number of killings, rapes, unlawful deprivations of liberty, physical abuses of victims, looting and destruction of facilities, inhumane treatment and deportation of the population to the Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje camps.

The aforementioned actions, together with other inhumane acts, resulted in the persecution of almost entire civilian population of Bosniak ethnicity from Čarakovo, as well as from Prijedor and its surroundings, in 1992.

Along with these deprivations of liberty, searches of the facilities used by the suspects are being conducted in an effort to find items which may be used as evidence in the course of the proceedings.

After the deprivation of liberty, these suspects will be transported to Sarajevo and then handed over to the Prosecutor in charge of this case, who will question them and subsequently decide on further actions in accordance with the law.