BOSNIAN STATE COURT SENTENCED SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL ZELJKO LELEK TO SHAMEFULLY LOW SENTENCE OF 13 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (May 26,2008) – Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek was found guilty on Friday for the crimes against humanity and the Bosnian State Court sentenced him to the shamefully low sentence of 13 years of imprisonment with calculated time he spent in detention during the criminal proceeding since May 5 2006.

Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek,46, was found guilty under the indictment that,as a member of the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor's formations, committed the acts of murder, torture and rape against Bosnian civilian population of the Visegrad municipality in the period of May, April and June of 1992,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

At the beginning of June 1992, Serbian war criminals Zeljko Lelek and Milan Lukic, raped a Bosnian woman. The indictment further stated that this Bosnian woman was raped on daily basis and physically and mentally mistreated by Serbian war criminal Lelek and other Serbian fascists over a period of ten days during which she was held captive.

“I cannot believe the Bosnian State Court ruled like this”, stated the president of the Bosnian Association “Women-Victims of War” Bakira Hasecic commenting on the shamefully low sentence in Serbian war criminal Zeljko Lelek’s case.

“The real question is,what is actually happening with the Bosnian State Court”, she added.
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