Bosnian Fighters Indicted for Brcko Prisoner Abuse
Former Croatian Defence Council fighters Redzep Salaj and Mensur Peljto are accused of crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians and prisoners of war in the Brcko area in 1992.
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The Brcko District elementary court on Thursday confirmed an indictment charging the two former members of the 108th Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council with committing a series of crimes including torture in May and June 1992.
The Brcko prosecution accuses Salaj of physically abusing a civilian, alongside two unknown soldiers, in a building near the ambulance station in Brcko, and later taking him away and killing him.
Both Salaj and Peljto were charged meanwhile with torturing and inhumanely treating prisoners of war and civilians detained at the Majevica forestry building in Okrajci near Brcko.
Both men will give their pleas to the charges in the next month.
