Monday, November 26, 2007

BOSNIAN STATE PROSECUTOR RAISED INDICMENT AGAINST SERBIAN WAR CRIMINALS RATKO BUNDALO,NEDJO ZELJAJA AND DJORDJISLAV ASKRABA

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (November 26,2007) – The Bosnian State Prosecutor has filed an indictment against Serbian war criminals Ratko Bundalo, Nedjo Zeljaja and Djordjislav Askraba, who are suspected to have committed crimes against humanity in Kalinovik municipality during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

The indictment has been forwarded to the Bosnian State Court for confirmation.

The Bosnian State Prosecutor considers that, from April 1992 to March 1993,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia,Serbian war criminals Ratko Bundalo, Nedjo Zeljaja and Djordjislav Askraba took part "in a joint criminal enterprise and planned, initiated, abetted and assisted in the deportation" of Bosnian civilians from the Kalinovik area by "committing murders, torture, detention, rape, forcible disappearance and arbitrary mass destruction of property".

The indictment alleges that, at the time the crimes were committed,Serbian war criminals were members of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS) while Serbian war criminal Djordjislav Askraba supervised the "Barutni magacin" concentration camp, in which 85 Bosnian civilians were detained by the genocidal Serbian aggressor. Only two of them survived.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested Zeljaja on August 28 this year. Askraba was arrested on August 29, while Bundalo was arrested two days later.

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