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INDICTMENT FILED FOR WAR CRIMES IN VLASENICA IN 1992
19.10.2018. 15:18A prosecutor from the Special Department for War Crimes filed an indictment against:
- Slađan Pajić, born in 1970 in Vlasenica.
The accused is charged that he, as a member of the VRS (BSA), acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War during the war and armed conflict in BiH.
He is charged that he, armed and dressed in uniform, came to the house of a female Bosniak woman on three occasions during 1992 and raped the victim under the threat of his weapon and threatening her he would kill her closest relatives who were detained in the Sušica camp.
The accused is also charged with having committed the rape of a minor Bosniak victim, who was 13 at the time the crime was committed.
Also, the accused Pajić is charged with having tortured, beaten and abused in humiliating ways four Bosniak men who were unlawfully detained in the premises of SUP (Police Station) in Vlasenica, one of which was a minor.
The accused is charged with having committed a criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians.
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH will prove the allegations of the indictment by calling 24 witnesses and submitting dozens of material evidence.
As the accused is on the run and, according to information, in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, an international arrest warrant for the accused was requested earlier.
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