BOSNIAN STATE COURT ORDERS CUSTODY FOR SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL VASO TODOROVIC CHARGED WITH GENOCIDE

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (April 9,2008) – The Bosnian State Court issued a decision yesterday ordering Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović into one-month custody. Pursuant to the Decision, custody may last until 7 May 2008. Vaso Todorović is suspected of the criminal offense of Genocide.

In its motion for custody, the Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office submits that there is grounded suspicion that Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović, as a member of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia, during the period from 10 July 1995 to 19 July 1995,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia, together with other Serbian aggressor's soldiers, participated in criminal act of genocide against Bosnian civilians within the UN protected zone of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Further, the Bosnian State Prosecutor’s motion alleges that Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović together with other participants of joint criminal action, on 12 July and 13 July 1995 secured the road by closing and opening the same one for traffic, according to the plan of forced relocation of around 25 thousand of Bosnian women, children and elderly persons.

On 13 July 1995 Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović as alleged in the Prosecution Motion,together with other Serbian aggressor's soldiers, detained thousands of Bosnian civilians, whereby they separated 20 and 30 of them and put them on trucks and took them away wherefrom they disappeared without trace.

The Prosecutor’s motion further submits that Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović together with other members of the genocidal Serbian aggressor's formations escorted and detained more than a thousand Bosnian civilians.They were detained in the Farming Cooperative Kravica and mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor on July 13,1995, in early evening hours.

Having inspected the evidence submitted, the Bosnian State Court concluded that there was grounded suspicion that Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović had committed the criminal offence of Genocide.

Considering the criminal offense Serbian war criminal Vaso Todorović is suspected of, the Bosnian State Court ordered custody for the reason of public and property security.
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