Indictment Filed Against Nenad Przulj

The prosecution has charged Przulj with having participated in detention, enforced disappearances and other inhumane acts on the premises of a school building in the village of Cavarine, which was used as a detention facility.

The prosecution alleges that Przulj participated in persecution of the Bosniak civilian population as a commander of guards and the commander of the detention facility in the Cavarine school building from May 1992 to mid-1993.

The indictment charges Przulj with the unlawful transfer of 39 Bosniak prisoners from a school building in Sokolac to two rooms in the school building in Cavarine, which were uninhabitable and had no source of light. The indictment alleges that the prisoners were held in inhumane conditions, without electricity or heating. They slept on the floor and urinated and defecated into buckets.

Przulj has also been charged with beating a detained civilian along with another guard and soldiers. They allegedly kicked and punched the prisoner all over his body until he fainted.

The prosecution has also charged Przulj with having information about the beatings of detained civilians, but failing to prevent them.

“In March 1993, Przulj and a few other guards participated in taking six detained civilians out [of the detention facility], under the pretense of releasing them. He then handed them over to members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s military police, who drove them in an unknown direction. The civilians have been missing without a trace since,” the unconfirmed state prosecution indictment alleges.

The indictment has been filed with the Bosnian state court.