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INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST MILKAN GOJKOVIĆ, ACCOMPLICE OF VESELIN VLAHOVIĆ AKA BATKO, FOR WAR CRIMES COMMITTED IN GRBAVICA NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SARAJEVO

26.12.2014. 15:06

Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an Indictment against the following person:

  -      Milkan Gojković, born on 16 July 1966 in Maravići, in the Municipality of Rogatica, where he also resides, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  
INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST MILKAN GOJKOVIĆ, ACCOMPLICE OF VESELIN VLAHOVIĆ AKA BATKO, FOR WAR CRIMES COMMITTED IN GRBAVICA NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SARAJEVO

He is accused of acting in violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, as a soldier of the Republika Srpska Army, during the war in BiH and armed conflict between the Republika Srpska Army and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in September of 1992, in the territory of the Grbavica neighbourhood of Sarajevo, in Novo Sarajevo Municipality, by committing outrages upon personal dignity by particularly offensive and humiliating actions and by assaulting the dignity of a Bosniak female victim.

He is accused of coming armed to a family house together with Veselin Vlahović aka Batko, a member of the Republika Srpska Army, and two other unknown members of the Republika Srpska Army, in the evening of 29 September 1992, and banging on the door of the house and ultimately entering it to find a husband and wife with their minor daughter there.  

While one of the soldiers was standing guard in front of the door, the accused committed rape and sexual abuse of the Bosniak victim in an exceptionally cruel manner, by using force and threats, while her husband was forced by Batko and other unknown soldier to watch all that; subsequently, Batko killed her husband by slaughtering him brutally.        Milkan Gojković is charged with the commission of the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians, as referred to in Article 173, Paragraph 1, item e) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in conjunction with Article 180, Paragraph 1 of the same Code.   The Indictment has been forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.    

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