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Indictment filed against Dragoljub Kunarac for crimes against humanity in Foča

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, December 5 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb Army unit commander Dragoljub Kunarac, who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal for multiple rape, was charged by the Sarajevo prosecution with murder, torture and abuse in Foča in 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb Army unit commander Dragoljub Kunarac, who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal for multiple rape, was charged by the Sarajevo prosecution with murder, torture and abuse in Foča in 1992.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Wednesday charged Dragoljub Kunarac, alias Žaga, with crimes against humanity and the persecution of the Bosniak civilian population in the Foča area in 1992.

“Kunarac has been charged, in his capacity as commander of a Bosnian Serb Army special unit, with having participated, in collaboration with other uniformed and armed members of Žaga’s [Kunarac’s] Unit, in the murder of at least six people, torturing and causing severe physical pain and mental suffering to captured civilians, and deportations of the Bosniak civilian population from the villages and hamlets of Kobilja Ravan, Luke and Falovici-Podpeće on July 27 and 28, 1992, in connection with the persecution,” the prosecution alleged in the indictment.

Kunarac was also charged with participating in setting houses and other property on fire.

He is currently serving a 28-year sentence after being previously convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

He was jailed by the UN court for multiple rape and the enslavement of two women - the first-ever case in which an international war crimes court treated sexual violence as a crime against humanity.

The new indictment has been filed to the state court for confirmation.

(FENA) S. R.

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