A Montenegrin police officer suspected of having committed war crimes in 1992 in Hadzici, near the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was arrested in Niksic. His identity has not been disclosed, only the initials Z. G.
“The search of the apartments and other premises of the person deprived of liberty is underway in several locations, in order to collect other evidence of the criminal act,” said the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro, on whose order he was arrested.
As added in the announcement, he will be brought in as a suspect for questioning by a prosecutor specializing in crimes against humanity protected by international law.
Hadzici is one of Sarajevo’s municipalities that was under the control of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) during the war.
Many of its inhabitants were expelled, killed, or disappeared. Two mass graves were also found, which are assumed to hide the bodies of the citizens of this settlement.
In December of last year, the Prosecutor’s Office of Canton Sarajevo (CS) filed an indictment against Goran Fific and Mirjana Milidrag, who are accused of a war crime committed in the middle of June 1992 in the area of Hadzici.
In that indictment, it was stated that the crimes were committed by soldiers of the VRS “armed with different types of firearms and close combat weapons”.
“They tortured in various humiliating ways, used severe forms of psychological and sexual abuse and beatings, as well as inflicting permanent physical and psychological injuries on illegally imprisoned Bosniak civilians from the area of several settlements of the Municipality of Hadzici,” the CS Prosecutor’s Office stated last year, N1 writes.
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