Bosnia Charges Serb Woman with Vlasenica Massacre

Visnja Acimovic was charged with involvement in the shooting of 37 Bosniak prisoners in the Vlasenica municipality in 1992.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Monday charged Visnja Acimovic, also known as Beba, with having participated in the shooting of 37 Bosniak men at Mracni Dol in the Vlasenica municipality, near the Susica detention camp, which was run by Bosnian Serb forces.

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Albina Sorguč

30. january 2017. | 14:47

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According to the charges, Acimovic and another soldier participated in the murder of the men who had been brought by bus from a prison located behind the court building in Vlasenica.

“The defendant is charged with having shot the victims with firearms while they were standing just a few metres away from the bus,” the prosecution said in a statement.

“The victims’ bodies were found and exhumed in 2000, at the same location at which they were shot,” it added.

The indictment did not say whether Acimovic was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army or not.

She has citizenship of both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, where she currently lives.

City: Vlasenica

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