Bosnia Arrests Ex-Soldier for Abducting, Killing Bosniaks

Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sabahudin Kajdic for seizing and killing Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992.

State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA police officers on Monday arrested ex-serviceman Sabahudin Kajdic, alias Sasa, for allegedly committing a crime against humanity in July 1992.

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Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija

2. december 2019. | 15:14

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Kajdic was charged as a former member of Prijedor Motorised Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army.

“He has been charged with having participated, in collaboration with other Bosnian Serb Army members, in the forced abduction of two Bosniak civilians, who have been missing without trace since, from the village of Gornja Puharska in the municipality of Prijedor in July 1992, as well as the abduction and murder of two civilians, who were killed at Jordan Njive locality after having been taken away from their homes,” the state prosecution said in a statement.

Kajdic will be handed over to a prosecutor for questioning.

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