The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Senad Dzananovic to 11 years in prison and Edin Gadzo to five years in prison for war crimes against Serb civilians in the Sarajevo settlement of Alipasino Polje in 1992.
The second-instance verdict rejected the appeals of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and the defense attorneys of the accused as unfounded, which confirmed the first-instance verdict handed down on June 11 last year, the Court of BiH announced.
Dzananovic and Gadzo are accused that, as members of the Territorial Defense Staff “Stela” and Special Units of the Army of RBiH, from mid-April to August 1992 on Alipasino Polje, together with their superiors Jusuf Prazin Juk and Samir Kahvedzic Krusko, consciously and willingly participated in illegal detention of Serb civilians.
Serb civilians were illegally deprived of their liberty in the Sarajevo area, taken to the Stela Territorial Defense Headquarters in Alipasino Polje (former Borsalino Cafe and Mladost Local Community) and detained in prisons in the basements of a residential building in Alipasino Polje. ” B “phase, and the butcher” Pester “and other premises of the same residential building.
According to the indictment, in these facilities, the accused and other persons subjected Serb civilians to murder, rape, torture, inhuman treatment, forced labor, during which they were exposed to mortal danger, and subjected to various forms of physical and psychological abuse.
Dzananovic and Gadzo were acquitted of charges of certain incriminations in the manner stated in the first instance verdict, according to which they would be charged with the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians of the Criminal Code of BiH.
In relation to certain incriminations, the Court rejected the accusation that Dzananovic committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under the Criminal Code of BiH.
