Bosnia Charges Serb with Bosniaks’ Murders in Miska Glava

5. July 2018.10:50
Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Milorad Obradovic was indicted for alleged participation in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Miska Glava near Prijedor in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Milorad Obradovic, alias Stiven, with participating in a widespread and systematic attack on the Bosniak civilian population in the Prijedor area in July 1992, as well as the capture of around 120 Bosniak civilians in the village of Miska Glava, in collaboration with others.

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According to the charges, the civilians were unlawfully detained, tortured and abused and later shot.

“The available evidence suggests that only three people managed to survive the shooting and run away from the location of the execution. At least 15 minors were among the people who were killed,” the indictment alleges.

Obradovic has also been charged with personally killing three Bosniak civilians at the Rudar football stadium in Prijedor.

He was recently extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina from Germany.

The Bosnian state court is currently trying ten people for war crimes in Miska Glava.

Slobodan Taranjac, Slobodan Knezevic, Milodrag Glusac, Ranko Babic, Ranko Dosenovic and Rade Zekanovic are charged with with ordering or failing to stop or punish the detention of civilians who were held in inhumane conditions in the culture house in Miska Glava and tortured.

Zdravko Panic, Trivo Vukic, Milan Vukic and Marinko Prastalo are also charged with killing 11 men. Taranjac, Glusac, Babic and Dosenovic are accused of concealing the crime.

Taranjac was charged as president of the Crisis Committee in Ljubija and head of the local civil authorities, Glusac as deputy commander of the Sixth Ljubija Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s 43rd Brigade, Babic as first operative officer of the Sixth Ljubija Battalion, and Dosenovic as the battalion’s assistant commander for security.

The others were charged as members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Misko Glava Company and the military and civil police.

The state prosecution has requested that Obradovic’s case be joined to that of the others.

His indictment has been filed to the state court for confirmation.

Denis Džidić


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