Prosecution Proposes Postponing Stanarevic Trial, Waiting for Extradition of Suspect
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Prosecutor Emir Neradin said that the extradition of the suspect from Serbia was underway, although more than twenty had days had passed without a response from the competent court in Serbia.
Neradin said that an indictment would be filed as soon as the extradition was complete.
The trial chamber decided to schedule the main trial on April 8, in case the extradition did not take place within one month.
Bosnia’s state prosecution has charged Stanarevic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, with participating in the murder of civilians in a widespread and systematic attack by the army and police on Ripac, Cukovi, Orasac, Klisa, and Kulen-Vakuf in the municipality of Bihac.
The indictment alleges that Stanarevic arrived at the police station in Ripac with other Bosnian Serb Army members in the summer of 1992. More than 70 Bosniak civilians from that area were detained in the police station.
“With the intent to kill the detained civilians because of their ethnicity, the defendant and his accomplices took out and tied eleven detainees, whom they transported by truck to the Bezdan Pit in Hrgar, where they participated in the murder of those detainees,” the indictment alleges.
The remains of 83 persons were exhumed from the Bezdan Pit in 1997.
