Rogatica Crimes Indictment Confirmed

21. January 2016.00:00
The Bosnian state court of confirmed an indictment against Bozidar Perisic and Vinko Zoranovic for crimes committed in the Rogatica area.

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The indictment alleges that Perisic and Zoranovic carried out persecution of the Bosniak civilian population from the Rogatica area from May 1992 to the end of 1993 and participated in murders, rape and unlawful detention.

According to the charges, Perisic was a member of the First Podrinjska Light Infantry Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, while Zoranovic was worked at the public safety station in Rogatica.

“Perisic has been charged with having forced Bosniak civilians to come out of their homes on several occasions on June 19, 1992. After that he physically and mentally mistreated and arrested some of them. He killed 15 unarmed civilians by shooting them with firearms on that day. Their bodies have still not been found,” the state prosecution has said.

Zoranovic has been charged with raping two Bosniak women on church property.

Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija


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