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SARAJEVO, June 5 (FENA) - Former Territorial Defense commander Omer Borić has been charged of being responsible for crimes against humanity against Serb civilians in the Konjic area during wartime, including killings, torture and unlawful detentions.
The Bosnian state prosecution on Tuesday filed an indictment accusing Omer Borić, the wartime commander of the municipal headquarters of the Territorial Defense forces in Konjic, of being responsible for crimes against humanity, BIRN reports.
The prosecution said that Borić knew that “subordinate members of the army, police and other formations were getting ready to commit and committed murders, abuse, beatings, unlawful detentions in detention camps, torture and other inhumane acts against Serb civilians”.
“In his capacity as a superior, he failed to undertake measures to prevent the commission of those crimes and punish the perpetrators,” a prosecution statement said.
The indictment includes the murders of at least 43 people during an attack on the village of Bradina. The remains of 36 of them have been found and exhumed.
It also includes the burning of the Serbian Orthodox church in Bradina, as well as houses and other buildings, and the pillaging of property owned by Serbs.
It says that several hundred Serb civilians were persecuted, unlawfully detained and held in a school building in Bradina, or taken to the Ćelebići and Musala detention camps.
According to the prosecution, Borić has Austrian citizenship.
The indictment has been filed to the state court for confirmation.
(FENA) S. R.
