Local Justice – Dautovic: Indictment Confirmed
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Under the indictment of the Prosecution Office of the Una-Sana Canton, raised on December 12 this year, Dautovic is charged with torture and inflicting pain and injuries to detained civilians in June and August 1994, and for killing detained civilian Rasim Erdic, during the conflict between the Fifth Corps of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Army of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APZP).
Dautovic, former squad commander for guarding facilities within the Defence Ministry and Military Police of the APZP, is also charged that together with another person of having brought twelve detainees from the detention camp at Drmeljevo, Velika Kladusa municipality, to premises of the Health Centre in Velika Kladusa, where they were subjected to physical abuse on 18 June, 1994.
The injured parties sustained serious injuries then, and before returning to the detention camp at Drmeljevo, they were kept for three days in the premises of the morgue which was without water, light and fresh air, full of moisture, and without any conditions for stay, it is stated in the confirmed indictment.
The indictment further charges Dautovic that on August 8, 1994, he took fifteen detained civilians from detention camp Drmeljevo to forced labor at the site of the Old Town, where he beat them without giving them something to eat or to drink water, which caused nine prisoners bodily injuries, while he killed detainee Rasim Erdic, by hitting him repeatedly in the head with a rifle butt.
Sakib Dautovic, known as Daut, was arrested in Norway in April 2007, and extradited to the judicial authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 2011.
He is currently being held in custody in Bihac.Dz.Dz.
