Indictment for Bileca War Crimes Filed
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against four former members of the Bosnian Serb Army, charging them with war crimes committed in Bileca in 1992.
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Boris Bosnjak, Milos Mavrak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic have been charged with the torture, assault and mental abuse of detainees held in a detention camp in the former military barracks of Bileca from May to August 1992.
According to the state prosecution, the detainees were held in extremely inhumane conditions. The rooms, which were stuffy and unventilated, were overflowing with detainees. The indictment alleges that detainees were given very little food and water, and weren’t allowed to use the toilet as necessary. Injured and sick detainees were also allegedly denied medical assistance.
The defendants allegedly beat detainees every day, and enabled others to enter detention facilities and beat them.
The indictment alleges they forced certain detainees to rape one another, tortured them with electrical shocks and took some of them out for simulated executions.
“Four detainees died as a consequence of their inhumane treatment, the aforementioned living conditions and a lack of medical assistance,” the state prosecution announced.
Bosnjak, Mavrak, Grubacic and Djajic have been charged with committing crimes against humanity by participating in the persecution of Bosniak, Croat and other non-Serb civilian populations.
According to the charges, Bosnjak was a guard commander, while the three other defendants were guards in the former Mosa Pijade military barracks.
The indictment alleges that more than 100 detainees, who had been brought from the Mostar, Gacko, Nevesinje, Bileca and Stolac areas, were held in the barracks.
The indictment has been filed with the Bosnian state court for confirmation.
