Indictment for Banovici Crimes Filed

18. December 2013.00:00
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina files an indictment against four persons, charging them with crimes against Serb victims in the Banovici area in 1992.

The indictment alleges that Esed Kocic, Miralem Colic, Fikret Mrkonjic and Mirza Dedic are charged with crimes against Serbs, who were detained in “The Railway Traffic” building in Banovici.

Kocic, Colic, Mrkonjic and Dedic, former members of the Territorial Defence, TO, and Public Safety Station, SJB, in Banovici, are charged with having participated in the murder of one detainee, as well as mutilation, torture and inhumane treatment of other detainees.

According to the charges, they beat detainees using various objects, tortured them in a degrading manner and left them, after having beaten them brutally, without medical assistance even for several days.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina alleges that the crimes were committed from the beginning of May to the end of July 1992.

Amer Jahić