Bosnian Serb Soldiers Indicted Over Bihac Mass Killings
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The Bosnian prosecution charged Stanarevic and Dopudja on Thursday with having participated in the killings of the civilians within a wide-ranging and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police on the villages of Ripac, Cukovi, Orasac, Klisa and Kulen Vakuf near Bihac in the north-west of the country in the summer of 1992.
According to the indictment, they arrived along with other Bosnian Serb Army troops at the police station in Ripac, where more than 70 Bosniak civilians from the area were detained, and took some of them away.
“With the intention of killing the detained civilians only because of their nationality, the defendants and their accomplices took out and tied up 11 prisoners, who they drove to the site of the Bezdan pit in the village of Hrgar, where they participated in the killings of the prisoners,” it said.
The remains of 83 people were exhumed from the pit in 1997.
The indictment has been forwarded to the Bosnian court for confirmation.
