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Bosnia prosecutor indicts 8 Bosnian Serbs suspected of war crimes

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The office of the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Thursday indicted eight Bosnian Serbs on charges of taking part in war crimes early in the Bosnian war. Damir Ivankovic, Zoran Babic, Gordan Djuric, Milorad Radakovic, Milorad Skrbic, Ljubisa Cetic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic are suspected to have taken part in the August 21, 1992 massacre of over 200 Muslims and Croat civilians as part of an ethnic cleansing on Mount Vlasic. The prisoners, who were told they were being released, were taken to the woods, and forced to kneel at the edge of a ravine where they were then shot. Four of the suspects were arrested in October. In 2004, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced former Bosnian Serb "Intervention Squad" officer Darko Mrdja to 17 years in prison for "unloading, guarding, escorting, shooting and killing" the victims at Koricanske Stijene. The Bosnian Prosecutor's Office works in tandem with the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was established to alleviate the caseload of the ICTY. The War Crimes Chamber will continue to hear cases as the ICTY winds down in 2010.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).