Slavko Lalovic Pleads Not Guilty
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His trial at the State Court is due to begin within the next 30 to 60 days.
The indictment alleges that Lalovic, who worked as a prison guard while a member of the reserve police forces with the Public Safety Station in Kalinovik, allowed soldiers to come inside the prison and torture civilians who were unlawfully detained in the Miladin Radojevic school building.
“In this way, indictee Lalovic acted contrary to his duty to protect the detained civilians and assisted in the commission of violence against them,” the indictment alleges.
The Prosecution alleges that Lalovic allowed two members of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Army to come to a room in late August 1992 and rape a female detainee. He is further charged with having intimidated and terrorised the detained civilians.
On October 7, 2010, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed three counts against Lalovic and rejected four counts contained in the Prosecution’s indictment.
The State Court previously rendered a first instance verdict pronouncing Ratko Bundalo and Nedjo Zeljaja guilty of crimes committed in Kalinovik and sentencing them to 19 and 15 years’ imprisonment, respectively.
Among other things, they were pronounced guilty of the unlawful detention of about 300 civilians in the Miladin Radojevic school building, where individuals were held in inhumane conditions, raped, physically and mentally abused, and some murdered.
At that time Bundalo was Commander of the Tactical Group in Kalinovik and Zeljaja was Commander of the Police Station with the Public Safety Station in Kalinovik. Djordjislav Askraba, who was indicted under the same indictment, was acquitted of all charges by the first instance verdict.
