Ikonic: Indictment for Genocide Confirmed
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The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina contends that on July 12 and 13, 1995 members of the First and Second Company of the Jahorina Training Center, in collaboration with other members of the RS Army and police, “participated in capturing several thousand Bosniak men and detaining them in various detention centers, such as the school building in Bratunac and the Kravica Agricultural Cooperative.
The indictment alleges that Nedjo Ikonic ordered twenty members of the Second Company to execute several captured Bosniaks, “although he was aware of the fact that he was participating in the execution of a systematic joint criminal enterprise”.
The indictment further alleges that, in collaboration with Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric, who are charged, before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with genocide committed in Srebrenica, he “supervised and supported” the killing in Kravica, where an Arkan and Hercegovac, as well as other members of the First Company of “Jahorina” Training Center”, “threw bombs among living prisoners”.
“Once the shooting of all the captured men had been completed, some members of the First and Second Company of the Jahorina Training Center started shooting from revolvers, killing the prisoners who were still alive and ‘making sure’ the dead ones were really dead. In that way they participated in the execution of more than 1,000 prisoners,” the Prosecution’s indictment alleges.
The indictment further alleges that, in line with an order issued by Ikonic, members of the First and Second Company with the Jahorina Training Center “participated in the search of forests near the road leading from Bratunac to Konjevic polje with the aim of locating, capturing and executing Bosniak men”.
“Members of the Training Center captured several hundred men, including children, and brought them to Pervani village, in the vicinity of the Konjevic polje-Bratunac road, took their personal belongings, tied their hands behind their backs and took them to a warehouse at the crossroads in Konjevic polje, where they killed them. Bodies of the killed people were transferred to the Cerske locality, where they were buried in a mass grave,” the indictment alleges.
Ikonic was deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of 2010, after having been arrested in the US and sentenced to one year in prison for having given false personal data to immigration authorities of that country.
In addition to Ikonic, charges of genocide and participation in a systematic joint criminal enterprise at Srebrenica are being made against Dusko Jevic, former Assistant Commander of the Special MUP RS Brigade and Commander of the Jahorina Training Center, Mendeljev Djuric, Commander of the First Company with the Training Center, and Goran Markovic, Commander of the Second Squad with the First Company.
