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Visegrad Crimes Suspects Arrested

5. September 2012.00:00
As per a warrant issued by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, P.M. and T.LJ. were arrested early this morning due to a suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity in the Visegrad and Sokolac municipalities in June 1992.

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The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested the suspects in the Visegrad area.

P.M. is suspected of having participated in the murder of several tens of Bosniak civilians near the Paklenik pit, Sokolac municipality, the beating of civilians in Crni Vrh village and the Orahovci school building in the Visegrad area as well as the forcible resettlement of the population from Visegrad and the surrounding villages to Iseric Brdo.

As announced by the State Prosecution, T.LJ. is suspected of having committed the forcible resettlement of more than 500 Bosniak civilians from Donji and Gornji Dubovik, Zagre, Smrijecje, Veletovo and Haniste villages, Visegrad municipality.

Following their examination, a competent prosecutor will decide whether to file a custody order motion for the suspects or not.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that the identity of the arrested persons could not be revealed.
M.T.

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