INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR WAR CRIMES IN ZVORNIK AREA

A 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:

- Borislav Gligorević, aka "Beba" or "Bebo", born in 1971 in Snagovo, in Zvornik, a citizen of both Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia, who is currently remanded in custody.

This accused person is charged with acting contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War, while he was a member of the Zvornik Territorial Defence, during the war and armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population of Bosniak ethnicity in the area of Zvornik and its surroundings.

As a member of the ‘White Eagles’ unit, he is charged with the rape and sexual abuse of three victims, using force on them and threatening them with weapons, which criminal offence he committed alone and also with other members of the unit, in late May and early June 1992, in the town of Liplje, Zvornik municipality, where the said unit had illegally detained several hundred civilians of Bosniak ethnicity. These victims were being forcibly separated from other detainees, and often even from their children and families, and taken to nearby facilities where the aforementioned crimes were committed against them.

This accused person is charged with the criminal offence of Crimes against Humanity, referred to in Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The prosecution will prove the allegations in the Indictment by calling 24 witnesses, including 5 witnesses under protection measures, as well as two expert witnesses, and it will also submit more than 70 pieces of material evidence.

The Indictment was forwarded to, and confirmed by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.