Bosnian Serb Policeman Jailed for Killing Prisoners
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The cantonal court in Bihac on Friday sentenced Stricevic to ten years in prison for the crimes in the village of Bravsko in the Bosanski Petrovac are in western Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 28, 1992.
The court established that three Bosnian Army soldiers from Sanski Most, Mustafa Cikota, Emsud Smailovic and Satko Burnic, were taken to the post office in Bravsko, where a fighter called Obrad Ozegovic shot Burnic.
“The defendant ordered the other two prisoners to put the body of the killed [prisoner] onto a tractor trailer, while hitting them,” the verdict said. There is currently a warrant out for Ozegovic’s arrest.
Stricevic and a fighter called Milutin Babic then drove the prisoners to the nearby Ravnica pit.
The defendant ordered two prisoners to take Burnic’s dead body off the trailer and fired at them with an automatic rifle while they were holding the body.
Smailovic, who was lying on the ground and still showing signs of life, was then killed by Milutin Babic, who shot him in the head.
The time Stricevic spent in custody between May 23 and September 14, 2012 will be counted against his sentence.
He was also sentenced to ten years in prison in July 2013 for killing a prisoner, but the Bosnian supreme court quashed that verdict and ordered a retrial.
Friday’s verdict can be appealed.
