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SARAJEVO, July 26 (FENA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina’s State Court has acquitted three former Bosnian Serb soldier, charged with the murder of Bosniaks in Kozarac in June 1992 – for lack of evidence.
Bosnia's State Court has acquitted Rade Vlasenko, Drago Končar and Milan Krupljanin of charges of having killed Rajifa Memić and her mother, Radifa Kurtović, in June 1992 in the Barakovac neighborhood of Kozarac in northern Bosnia. They were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
The indictment said, together with a group of other Bosnian Serb soldiers, during the same month, they also killed Hasan and Hima Ahmetćehajić, Himza Velić, Ebil Mandžukić and Safet Muratćehajić in the Barakovac neighborhood, shooting from firearms. The accused were acquitted on all counts.
Vlasenko also faced charges that, in the summer 1992, he took on as forced labor three Bosniak civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp, one of whom, Adem Filović was killed.
However, the Trial Chamber rejected these charges against Vlasenko because he had already been tried on these grounds and could not be tried twice for the same crime.
In the earlier case, in 2017, the State Court acquitted Vlasenko and Drago Končar in a final verdict of charges of having committed a crime against humanity in the Prijedor area in 1992.
This is a first-instance verdict on which there is a possibility of appeal, BIRN reports.
(FENA) S. R.
