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NGO files criminal complaint against Svetozar Andrić for war crimes in BiH

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, March 2 (FENA) - The Humanitarian Law Center on Friday filed a criminal complaint against Svetozar Andrić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Birač Brigade, alleging that he illegally ordered the removal of more than 10,000 Bosniaks from the town of Zvornik on May 28, 1992.

The criminal charges were filed, as they stated, for the number of crimes committed during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

According to HLC, Andrić, as commander of the VRS Birač brigade, in whose zone of responsibility were, among others, Vlasenica and Zvornik municipalities, on 28 May 1992 ordered the removal of the Bosniak population from Zvornik, resulting in the departure of more than 10,000 Bosniaks to the area of Mali Zvornik, Kalesija, the village of Snagovo and the town of Kula.

Several days later, on May 31, 1992, as stated by the HLC, Andrić issued an order to establish the Sušica prison camp in Vlasenica. The camp worked until September 30, 1992, and during that period the prisoners were subjected to inhumane conditions. They slept on a concrete floor, were given one meal a day and kept in unhygienic living conditions. Most of them were beaten daily, while women were raped and about 160 prisoners were killed.

According to the report, in May and June 1992, the brigade commanded by Svetozar Andrić banished the Bosniak population from more than 20 villages in the Vlasenica municipality. The members of the brigade commanded by Andrić, as stated by the HLC, torched the village of Gobelje in the municipality of Vlasenica in March 1993.

Andrić is currently the deputy mayor of the New Belgrade municipality.

He was also a member of the presidency of the Serbian People’s Party, part of the ruling coalition in Serbia, BIRN reports.

(FENA)
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