TWO SUSPECTS OF WAR CRIMES, COMMITTED IN TUKOVI NEAR PRIJEDOR, DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY

Early this morning in the territory of Prijedor, acting upon the order of the Prosecutor from the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) deprived the following suspects of their liberty:

1. Milorad Radaković aka Srbo, born on 10 August 1962 in Sanski Most, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina

2. Goran Pejić, aka Ledeni, born on 31 January 1965 in Prijedor, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

These suspects are subject to investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina as they are suspected to have committed war crimes against victims of Croatian ethnicity in Tukovi in the Municipality of Prijedor, in June of 1992, as part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against Bosniak and Croat civilian population in the territory of Prijedor.

They are charged, as members of police and military formations, with the following: on 13 June 1992, they came to the place of Tukovi and mounted silencers on their automatic guns; then they reached the house belonging to Croat civilians- the Ećimović family, with five civilians and two minor children in it; they entered the house and opened a burst of fire, thus firing several dozen bullets and killing five Croat civilians, whereas the two minor children managed to save themselves by escaping from the house.

These suspects are under investigation as they are suspected of the commission of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity, as referred to in Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.