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Bosniak Soldiers Charged With Attack on Fleeing Serbs

19. June 2014.00:00
Four former Bosnian Army servicemen have been indicted for allegedly staging an attack on Serb civilians who were fleeing the conflict in Gorazde in 1992, leaving 21 people dead.

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The four men were charged on Thursday with attacking the civilians who were in a refugee convoy heading from the Gorazde municipality towards Rogatica on August 27, 1992.

Muhamed Sisic, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Reconnaissance Squad, and Emir Drakovac, Aziz Susa and Tarik Sisic, all former members of the same unit, are alleged to have killed the civilians, who included minors, elderly people and mothers with children, in the village of Kukavice.

Many others were wounded and the possessions carried by the refugees was burned or stolen.

In a separate count, Drakovac is accused of torturing three victims with an axe, and crippling and killing them in the Foca area at the end of 1992.

The indictment has been forwarded to the court for confirmation.

Džana Brkanić


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