Indictment for Prijedor Crimes Confirmed
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Soldat, Djuric and Babic are charged with having participated in the persecution, murders and other inhumane acts against non-Serb civilians from Prijedor municipality in the period from late April to the end of September 1992, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in its announcement.
The indictment alleges that Soldat was military policeman with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Djuric was member of the Information Centre and Babic was member of the First Interventions Squad with the Public Safety Station in Prijedor at that time.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina previously announced that Soldat, Djuric and Babic, who were accompanied by a few other persons, took Bosniak men from their houses in Carakovo village, near Prijedor on July 23, 1992 and shot them in front of the local mosque in that village.
Two men survived the shooting, while ten were killed.
Djuric and Soldat were arrested on December 5, 2012. Three days later the Court released them to liberty, ordering prohibiting measures against them.
Babic is on trial in a separate case for crimes committed at Koricanske stijene on Mount Vlasic, where about 200 civilians were killed on August 21, 1992.
Under a first instance verdict, which was later revoked, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for that crime.
A.S.
