INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR WAR CRIMES IN THE AREA OF ŽEPČE

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued an indictment against Mirsad Šestić*, born in 1954 in Zenica, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The accused is accused charged with having acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions relative to the Protection of the Civilian Population and the Wounded and Sick during the war and the armed conflict between the Army of RBiH and the HVO, in the area of ​​Žepče.

He is accused of having ordered, while acting in his capacity of the commander of the 2^nd Battalion of the 303^rd Mountain Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 16 August 1993, the members of his brigade to carry out an attack on Kiseljak a place in Žepče municipality, during which members of the RBiH Army killed six mostly elderly civilians, including two women and a 13-year-old girl, and wounded three ethnic Croat women.

After that, the accused ordered the capture of civilians and the formation of a "human shield" in which there were civilians, about twenty of them, including minors as well as children under the age of 5 and babies a few months old. They used the civilians as shields and shot at the members of the HVO, as a result of which one civilian died and two civilians were injured. Furthermore, the accused is charged with capturing, abusing and inflicting physical injuries on a civilian who was performing the duties of a journalist.

The accused is charged with having committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against the Civilians under Article 173 and War Crimes against the Wounded and Sick under Article 174 of the CC BiH.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.