INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR WAR CRIMES IN RAJLOVAC NEAR SARAJEVO

 The accused is charged with having acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War during an armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the middle of 1992, while acting in his capacity as the commander of the motorized platoon of the 1st Light Rajlovac Brigade of the RS Army.

He is charged that, in his capacity of a commander and a warden of the detention facility located in two hangars-tanks for oil in the area of Rajlovac, he had control over the guards in the facility and that he participated in the illegal incarceration of about 150 ethnic Bosniak civilians from Ahatovići, Dobroševići and Bojnik who were kept in inhumane conditions, subjected to inhumane treatment and various forms of severe physical and psychological abuse. Because of the severe abuse, one prisoner died, and one prisoner who was taken and severely beaten near the facility, succumbed to his injuries, and his body was taken to an unknown location, which has not been found to this day.

 

Furthermore, the accused is charged that on 12 June 1992 he ordered and facilitated the taking of prisoners to forced labor on the combat lines of the RS Army in Žunovnica, where the prisoners were exposed to mortal danger as a result of combat operations, where one prisoner was killed and several others were seriously and lightly wounded due to grenade explosions in their vicinity.

 

The accused is charged with the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 173, paragraph 1, points c) and e) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.