Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Face Trial for Srebrenica Genocide
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The Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the indictment charging ex-soldiers Mile Kosoric, Borislav Stojisic, Momcilo Tesic and Rajko Drakulic with involvement in genocide in Srebrenica.
They are accused of providing assistance to participants in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at detaining and executing able-bodied Bosniak men from Srebrenica and forcibly transferring women, children and the elderly, in the period from July 6 to 19, 1995.
They committed the crimes as part of a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police force against the population of Srebrenica, it is alleged. A total of around 8,000 men and boys were killed.
Kosoric, Stojisic, Tesic and Drakulic are charged with killing 21 Bosniak men, as well as forcibly stopping and pillaging a convoy of fleeing civilians after the fall of Srebrenica and raping women and girls who they separated from the others.
“The defendants have been charged with providing assistance to perpetrators of a joint criminal enterprise in July 1995. Kosoric did that in his capacity as commander of the Vlasenic Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army and the other defendants in their capacity as commanders and members of the military police of the Vlasenic Brigade of Bosnian Serb Army,” the Bosnian prosecution said when it initially filed the indictment.
