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BiH Court convicts Milisav Ikonić for war time rape in Rogatica

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, September 14 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry employee Milisav Ikonić has been sentenced to nine years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in the Rogatica area in July 1992.

The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Former Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry employee Milisav Ikonić guilty of having forcibly taken a woman from the secondary school building in Rogatica in July 1992 to an apartment, where he raped her.

The court found that he repeated the same crime over the next six days, which caused the victim mental and physical injuries.

“The injured party [codenamed] S-1 convincingly and consistently described the traumatic situation in which she found herself, as well as the things that happened to her,” said presiding judge Halil Lagumdžija.

Lagumdžija said the court took into account as mitigating circumstances the fact that Ikonić has a family, but the fact that he committed several rapes was taken into account as aggravating circumstances.

“The chamber looked at the fact that the sexual assault was totally unwarranted and against the will of the victim, and that Ikonić was aware of its consequences,” said the judge.

Meanwhile the state court acquitted former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Zoran Ilić of the same crime.

Ilić was cleared of raping another woman who unidentified persons had brought to an apartment in Rogatica in June 1992.

The court said the identity of the perpetrator has remained the subject of dispute and the prosecution failed to prove that Ilić committed the crime.

The verdict can be appealed, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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