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Rogatica, where the alleged crimes were committed. Photo courtesy of N1.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Tuesday accusing Zoran Neskovic, Panto Pantovic, Slavisa Djeric alias Djera, Nenad Ujic and Pero Despot of committing crimes against prisoners who were being held at the Rasadnik agricultural facility in Rogatica in July 1995.
“The defendants have been charged with multiple beatings, robbing, sexual abuse and humiliation and other forms of grave abuse of prisoners. The majority of the victims sustained severe physical and mental injuries and damage to their health, the consequences of which they still feel,” the prosecution said in a statement.
The suspects have also been charged with killing a detained cleric, who was taken out of the Rasadnik facility and shot.
Neskovic, Pantovic, Djeric, Ujic and Despot have been charged, as members of the Bosnian Serb Army military police, with breaching the Geneva Conventions on the protection of civilians in time of war.
The prosecution alleges that Neskovic was the commander of the detention centre at the Rasadnik agricultural facility in Rogatica and the other defendants were working there as guards.
Bosniak civilians from the Rogatica, Zepa and Srebrenica areas were held at Rasadnik in late July 1995, the indictment says.
There were more than 40 detainees, mostly elderly people, two minors and more than ten people in need of medical assistance. They had been kidnapped from a convoy escorted by international peacekeeping forces on the road between Zepa and Kladanj.
The indictment has been filed to the state court for confirmation.
