Local Justice – Doboj: The Cavalic Brothers Plead not Guilty
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According to the Doboj District Prosecutions charges, Esad and Dervis Cavalic, former members of HVO, tortured and treated civilians, who were held in detention camps in the Yugoslav National Army, JNA Center and Rabic military hangars, near Derventa, in an inhumane manner, violating the international laws during an armed conflict, in the period from April to June 1992.
Among other things, the indictment alleges that, on April 26, 1992 the indictees beat a prisoner with their hands and legs in the JNA Centre in Derventa. It further alleges that other HVO members later slaughtered the prisoner in that same room.
The Cavalic brothers were born in Derventa. They currently live in the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dusko Ninkovic, preliminary hearing judge with the District Court in Doboj, said that the date of a pre-trial status conference would be set at a later stage.
