Bosnia Arrests Serb Ex-Soldiers for Crimes Against Civilians
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“They have been charged, in their capacity as former Bosnian Serb Army members, who were armed and acted in collaboration with other soldiers, with having surrounded a house in which women and children were staying in the village of Glumina, near Zvornik, in the spring of 1992,” the state prosecution said in a statement.
“They allegedly used threats to force the women to call men who were hiding in the woods to come out, after which they personally and directly participated in torturing and abusing the Bosniak and Albanian men,” the statement added.
The prosecution alleges that Tomanic and Kandic participated in a widespread and systematic attack on the Bosniak civilian population in the Zvornik area.
Tomanic is suspected of killing an ethnic Albanian civilian with a handgun and ordering other people, including minors, to bury his body.
Both men are further charged with taking two Bosniak civilians away to an unknown location, after which they went were not seen alive again.
Their remains were later exhumed from the Crni Vrh mass grave near Zvornik.
