Police Hunt Fugitive Bosnian Croat War Criminal

Bosnians federal police have issued a warrant for the arrest of fugitive Dominik Ilijasevic, who was serving a 15-year jail sentence for war crimes including the murder of civilians.

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Amer Jahić

26. September 2013. | 00:00

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Bosnian’s federal police have issued a warrant for the arrest of fugitive Dominik Ilijasevic, who was serving a 15-year jail sentence for war crimes including the murder of civilians.

Srecko Bosnjak, police spokesman for the Hercegovina-Neretva canton, said that officers received a report on Wednesday that Ilijasevic, alias ‘Como’, had failed to return to prison in Mostar after being granted 25 days’ leave by the jail’s governor.

Bosnjak said police had no information on his possible whereabouts.

Ilijasevic, a former member of the Maturica special unit of the Croatian Defence Council, was jailed for 15 years in 2009 for war crimes in the Vares and Kiseljak municipalities, including the murders of civilians in an attack on the village of Stupni Do.

Bosnian Croat forces took control of Stupni Do in central Bosnia in October 1993 and massacred most of the Bosniaks that they captured. The confirmed number of victims is at least 35.

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