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INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST ATIF DUDAKOVIĆ AND 16 COMMANDERS AND MEMBERS OF 5TH BIH ARMY CORPS
11.10.2018. 15:00
The accused are as follows:
1. Atif Dudaković, born in 1953
2. Ekrem Dedić, born in 1953
3. Sanel Šabić, born 1976
4. Ibrahim Šiljedić aka ‘Šiljo’, born in 1973
5. Safet Salihagić, born in 1973
6. Adis Zjakić, born in 1975
7. Hasan Ružnić, born in 1973
8. Redžep Zlojić, born in 1966
9. Samir Solaković, born in 1972
10. Fatmir Muratović, born in 1972
11. Muharem Alešević, born in 1973
12. Husein Balagić, born in 1954
13. Ale Hodžić, aka ‘Pumparica’, born in 1970
14. Edin Domazet, born in 1970
15. Ejub Koženjić, aka ‘Ejko’ and ‘Šeširdžija’ /’Hatter’/, born in 1961
16. Ibrahim Nadarević, born in 1965
17. Said Mujić, born in 1960
Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes has issued an Indictment against Atif Dudaković and another 16 members and commanders of the 5th Corps of the RBiH Army charged with crimes against humanity, committed in the municipalities of Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ, Bosanska Krupa, Sanski Most, and with war crimes against civilians, committed in the municipalities of Bihać and Cazin.
The accused are charged with the killing of more than 300 persons of Serb ethnicity, majority of whom were civilians, mostly elderly persons, and soldiers who had surrendered or had been captured and thus were incapacitated for combat.
The bodies of some of the victims were found after the war and exhumed from several individual and mass graves, whereas some of the thus killed are still unaccounted for.
One part of the Indictment against Atif Dudaković refers to war crimes committed against Bosniak victims, members and supporters of the National Defence of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, during the conflict in the Cazin Krajina, in the municipalities of Bihać and Cazin.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina will prove the allegations in the Indictment by summonsing 447 witnesses and six expert witnesses and by tendering more than 1100 pieces of evidentiary material.
The accused are charged with the criminal offence of Crimes against Humanity, as referred to in Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while Atif Dudaković is also charged with the criminal offence of War Crimes against Civilians, as referred to in Article 173 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).
