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SARAJEVO, May 11 (FENA) - Proceedings against Marinko Šunjić, a former Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for the illegal detention, persecution and abuse of Bosniak civilian prisoners in Mostar in 1992 and 1993, were halted because of his death.
The Bosnian state court told BIRN that Marinko Šunjić, who was accused of detaining, persecuting and committing grave abuses against Bosniak civilian prisoners in Mostar in 1992-1993, has died and the proceedings against him have been discontinued.
Šunjić stood trial for crimes against humanity together with Jure Kordić, Dražen Lovrić, Dario Sušac, Nedžad Tinjak, Nuhan Šikalo, Dario Mihalj, Stanko Škobić, Tomislav Ančić and Slavko Golomac.
All the defendants were former members of the Second Brigade’s First Battalion and the Convicts’ Battalion of the Croat Defence Council.
They were accused of detaining civilians at the Heliodrom and Vojno detention facilities, and persecuting and severely abusing of Bosniaks in Mostar during 1992 and 1993.
Šunjić was also charged with raping a woman at the Croat Defence Council police building in September 1993, acting in collaboration with several others. The victim had previously been taken there from the Vojno detention facility.
Another defendant in the same case, Neđad Ćorić, died in July 2019.
Over the past five years, about 20 indicted suspects have died before the final verdicts in their trials at the Bosnian state court, BIRN BiH reports.
(FENA) S. R.
