BOSNIAN STATE PROSECUTOR HAS FILED AN INDICTMENT AGAINST SERBIAN WAR CRIMINALS VELJKO BASIC,PREDRAG BASTAH AND GORAN VISKOVIC

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (April 21,2008) – The Bosnian State Prosecutor has filed an indictment against Serbian war criminals Veljko Basic, Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic, who are charged with crimes against humanity committed in the Vlasenica municipality in 1992,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

The indictment was submitted to the Bosnian State Court confirmation.

The indictment alleges that, from April to late September 1992 Serbian war criminals Basic, Bastah and Viskovic, knowing that a broad and systematic attack was conducted by the Serbian aggressor's forces, persecuted Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnia.

The Bosnian State Prosecutor considers that they participated in murders, unlawful detention, mental and sexual abuse, forcible disappearances and torture.

Serbian war criminal Predrag Bastah murdered three Bosnian civilians in the vicinity of Susica concentration camp in early June 1992.

Serbian war criminal Goran Viskovic participated, together with Bastah, in the murder of four Bosnian civilians on June 12, 1992 and he together with four other Serbian war criminals raped one Bosnian woman.

The indictment further alleges that Serbian war criminals Basic, Bastah and Viskovic were members of a joint criminal enterprise, with the aim of committing murder, detention, mental and sexual abuse, forcible disappearance and torture.

The indictees have been held under custody since January 28 this year, when the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested them in Bosnia.
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