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SARAJEVO July 19 (FENA) - Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslić in today’s entity of Republika Srpska have been charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.
The BiH state prosecution on Thursday charged Dušan Kuzmanović, Predrag Markočević and Marinko Djukić, who were commanding officers at the Teslić police station during the war, with committing crimes against humanity in 1992.
“The three defendants are charged with overseeing and ordering the work of ordinary and reservist police officers in Teslić, who, along with members of the ‘Mice’ [police and military] unit and Bosnian Serb Army servicemen, took part in attacks and the persecution of civilians in predominantly Bosniak and Bosnian Croat settlements,” the prosecution said in a statement, BIRN reports.
The attacks and illegal detentions of non-Serb civilians resulted in torture, abuse, beatings and killings, according to the prosecutors.
The remains of some of the victims have been found but many have not, the prosecutors said.
According to the charges, Kuzmanovic was also a member of the Teslić Crisis Staff, the leading civilian governmental body in the town in 1992.
The indictment has been sent to the state court for confirmation.
(FENA) S. R.
