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SIPA arrests Duško Suvara, suspected of war crimes in Glamoč area

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, March 20 (FENA) - The State Investigation and Protection Agency of BiH (SIPA) today arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Duško Suvara, who is suspected of raping Bosniak women and torturing and intimidating civilians in the Glamoč municipality in 1992.

The state prosecution announced that the State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Duško Suvara, alias Hans, in the Banja Luka area on Wednesday, BIRN reports.

Suvara is charged with committing crimes against the civilian population in the municipality of Glamoč in 1992 as a member of the Bosnian Serb Army.

“The suspect has been charged with having forcibly taken victims from their houses and separated them from their families, while armed, threatening the victims by saying he would kill them and their family members and shooting with firearms, and committing the multiple rape and sexual abuse of Bosniak women, as well as the torture, intimidation and inhumane treatment of Bosniak civilians in the Glamoč area,” the prosecution said in a statement.

Following his arrest, Suvara will be handed over to a prosecutor, who will question him and make a decision about how to proceed with the case, stated the BiH Prosecutor’s Office.

(FENA) S. R.

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