Bosnian Serb Military Policeman Indicted for Aiding Srebrenica Genocide

The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Friday charging Zoran Malinic, the former commander of the Military Police Battalion with the 65th Motorised Protection Regiment of the Main Headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, charging him with assisting the commission of Srebrenica genocide.

Malinic is accused of having deliberately offered assistance to participants in a joint criminal enterprise who intended to commit genocide during a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police on the Bosniak civilian population in the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.

“The indictment alleges that the defendant planned, supervised and coordinated the activities of military police members in [the town of] Nova Kasaba and its surroundings. After the fall of the protected zone of Srebrenica, they set up ambushes, intercepted, captured and killed Bosniak civilians,” the Prosecution announced.

According to the charges, military police officers, acting on an order from Malinic, killed a group of 12 captured civilians, including women and wounded people.

The indictment also accuses Malinic of involvement in the capture and abuse of a group of at least 20 people in a school building in Nova Kasaba, and the capture of several hundred civilians who were held in inhumane conditions at a stadium in the town.

It is alleged that they were then transported towards Kravica and Bratunac, held in detention facilities and then shot dead at various locations.

Commanders of many Bosnian Serb military police units that participated in the genocide have so far not been prosecuted.

The Bosnian prosecution believes that Malinic, who has previously testified about Srebrenica as a prosecution witness at trials at the Hague Tribunal, is currently in Serbia.

The indictment has been filed to the Bosnian state court for confirmation.