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SARAJEVO, February 21 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Milojko Kovačević was charged with crimes against humanity for abducting, torturing, beating and abusing Bosniak civilians in the Višegrad area in 1992.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment on Thursday charging Milojko Kovačević with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the village of Donje Veletovo in the Višegrad municipality in June 1992.
“The defendant has also been charged with having personally participated, while armed with an automatic rifle, in the forced resettlement of the Bosniak civilian population from the village of Donje Veletovo in June 1992, when the entire population was forcibly transported towards the Sokolac municipality, where women, children and the elderly were expelled to territory controlled by the Bosnian Army, while around 50 Bosniak men were escorted by armed members of the Bosnian Serb Army and police to the Paklenik pit locality, where they were killed,” the prosecution said in a statement, BIRN reports.
“Only one person survived the shooting,” the statement added.
Kovačević was charged as a member of the Višegrad Public Security Station’s reservist police forces.
According to the prosecution, he currently lives in Serbia.
The indictment has been forwarded to the BiH Court for confirmation.
(FENA) S. R.
