Dragoljub Kunarac pleaded not guilty to the indictment accusing him of crimes committed in the area of Foča in 1992.
Kunarac said that he received and understood the indictment, and pleaded not guilty. “The file will be sent to the Council in order to schedule the main trial,” said the judge for the preliminary hearing Enida Hadžiomerović, reports BIRN BiH.
In 2018, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment accusing Kunarc of participating in the persecution of civilians of Bosniak nationality as the commander of a special unit of the Army of Republika Srpska called “Žaga”.
He was charged with three counts of participation in the murder of six people, torture and causing severe physical and mental suffering to captured civilians, as well as deportation and burning of property.
Last month, he was transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina from Germany, where he was serving a 28-year prison sentence, to which he was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal also for the crimes in Foča.
