Material Evidence Presented at Ilija Juric Trial

Prosecutor Milanko Kajganic presented a June 1992 decision from the presidency declaring a state of war, as well as a decision, terminating the state of war.

He also presented a decision on the establishment of the Bosnian Serb Army, issued in May 1992 and establishment of the Croatian Defense Council, were also included in the case file.

The indictment alleges that Juric, a former member of the 102nd Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council, raped and sexually abused a Serb woman in a house in Posavska Mahala in the municipality of Odzak in the night of June 4 or 5, 1992.

The Bosnian state prosecution has also charged Juric with intercepting and mistreating two Serb women with other soldiers in July 1992. The women were with their children, walking towards a school building in Odzak, where their husbands were detained.

The date of the next hearing will be set at a later stage.