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Serif Patkovic. Photo: N1.

The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Friday that it has charged Serif Patkovic with contravening the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Prisoners of War by killing an injured prisoner – an officer of the Croatian Defence Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force – in 1993.

Patkovic is alleged to have committed the crime while he was commander of the Second Battalion of the Bosnian Army’s 7th Muslim Brigade during the war.

“The charges against him are that in 1993, in Dusina , he personally and directly, shooting from his own weapon, killed a wounded Croatian Defence Council commander,” the prosecution said in a statement.

The prosecution said that Patkovic had committed the criminal offence of “war crimes against prisoners of war”.

The indictment was sent to the state court for confirmation.

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