Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes has issued an Indictment for   crimes against humanity committed against Bosniak victims in the territory of Prijedor, in 1992.

These accused persons are charged with participating, as a Commander and soldiers of the Army of Republika Srpska and police and the Crisis Staff, respectively, in a widespread and systematic attack directed against Bosniak population in the village of Zecovi near Prijedor.

The accused are charged with killings, torture, rapes and other types of torture, as well as with pillaging and destruction of Bosniak property in the village of Zecovi, in the Prijedor Municipality, as criminal offenses perpetrated as part of the crime of persecution of Bosniak population from the territory of the village of Zecovi.  

In the course of this persecution, more than 150 persons of Bosniak ethnicity were killed, women, children and elderly people included, whereas the population which survived was captured and unlawfully imprisoned in Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps, where a part of Bosniak victims was killed, while the remaining victims were subjected to forcible persecution, torture, mistreatment and inhumane treatment.

Among other things, these accused persons are charged with the killing of 29 women and children in the village of Zecovi at the Gradina site, committed on 25 July 1992, whereafter bodies of the killed persons were removed to a mass grave that has yet remained unfound.

As a consequence of this war crime, not a single person of at least 701 Bosniak inhabitants of the village of Zecovi registered during the 1991 census remained alive.

This case pertains to one of the greatest sufferings of Bosniak victims in the territory of Prijedor, and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has conducted a thorough and extensive investigation in order to collect evidence necessary to issue an Indictment against responsible persons.

Part of the mortal remains of these victims has been found and identified in the Tomašica mass grave, while the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and authorized institutions and police agencies are conducting an intensive search for the other part of these mortal remains.

In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has proposed summoning around 100 witnesses and expert witnesses and it has submitted several thousand pages of evidentiary material, in 556 pieces of evidence that will be used to prove the guilt of these accused persons, all of which proves the extensiveness of this case.

These accused persons are charged with the perpetration of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity, as referred to in Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The following persons have been accused:

1)  Dušan Milunić aka Bizon /Buffalo/,  born on 08 June 1962 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

2)  Radomir Stojnić aka Grom /Thunder/, born on 29 May 1943 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

3)  Radovan Četić aka Rade, born on 31 January 1958 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

4)  Duško Zorić, born on 23 February 1971 in Kladovo, in the Republic of Serbia, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

5)  Zoran Stojnić, born on 13 July 1971 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

6)  Željko Grbić, born on 06 June 1968 in Rasavci, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

7)   Ilija Zorić, born on 02 August 1972 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

8)   Zoran Milunić, born on 10 June 1969 in Rasavci, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

9)   Boško Grujičić aka Božo, born on 21 June 1967 in Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

10)   Ljubiša Četić, born on 07 April 1969 in Sarajevo, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

11) Rade Grujčić aka Gruja, born on 23 September 1967 in Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

12)   Uroš Grujčić, born on 14 October 1961 in Zecovi, in the Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

13)   Rajko Grbić aka Paja, born on 15 June 1967 in Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

14)    Zdravko Antonić aka Liko, born on 16 June 1957 in Rasavci, in the   Municipality of Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

15)    Rajko Gnjatović aka Aćim, born on 15 July 1960 in Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

All the aforementioned persons are in custody. A motion for the extension of custody has been forwarded together with the Indictment.

The three additional suspects, namely Jugomir Marčetić, Miodrag Vujičić aka Crnogorac /Montenegrin/ and Slavko Antonić aka Lika are in hiding and they are currently unavailable to the judiciary of Bosnia and Herzegovina; therefore, a Motion to issue an International Arrest Warrant will be requested. 

The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.