Bosnian Serb Indicted for Prijedor Detentions, Killings
Former Bosnian Serb military policeman Slobodan Knezevic is accused of involvement in the detentions and killings of 120 Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Tuesday confirmed the indictment against Slobodan Knezevic, which accuses him of participating in a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police on the Bosniak population of the Prijedor municipality from July 27 to 30, 1992.
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The indictment alleges that Knezevic, a member of the military police with the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sixth Ljubija Battalion, deliberately and significantly contributed to a joint criminal enterprise led by the civil and military authorities of the Prijedor municipality with the aim of persecuting the non-Serb population.
He is charged with participating in unlawfully detaining around 120 Bosniak civilians in Miska Glava near Prijedor.
The civilians were then shot and killed, and Knezevic is accused of personally killing one captured civilian prior to the mass shooting of the rest of the Bosniak victims.
He was extradited from Montenegro in March this year.
