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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN FOČA AREA
18.12.2025. 10:24He is charged with having participated, in the period from the beginning of May to mid-August 1992, within the widespread and systematic attack against Bosniaks in the Foča area, knowing of such an attack and that his actions constituted a part of that attack. He participated in the persecution of the Bosniak civilians on ethnic and religious grounds, by both issuing orders to police officers, as well as personally participating in certain deprivations of liberty, taking away and unlawfully imprisoning civilians in the police station in Miljevina as well as in other serious deprivations of physical liberty contrary to the fundamental rules of international law. He is charged with participation in inhumane acts intended to cause great suffering to civilians, killings and the enforced disappearance of more than thirty persons, who have since been listed as missing. He is accused of committing the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172, paragraph 1, item h), in conjunction with the same article, item e), and item i), and in conjunction with Article 180, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code of BiH.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).
The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina





