The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an indictment against Mićo Orlović, who is charged with having participated in the persecution of Bosniak civilians on ethnic and religious grounds, as a member of the police forces in the Foča area, from the beginning of May to mid-August 1992.
According to the indictment, Orlović, in his capacity as a member and also commander of the police forces of Republika Srpska and as a superior to all active and reserve police officers of the Miljevina police station, acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Civilians in Time of War and Armed Conflict.
He is charged with having participated in the persecution of Bosniaks by issuing orders to police officers, as well as personally participating in individual arrests, taking and unlawful detention of civilians in the Miljevina police station and other serious deprivations of physical liberty, contrary to the basic rules of international law.
Orlović is charged with participating in inhumane acts aimed at causing great suffering to civilians, murders and the forced disappearance of more than thirty people, who have lost all trace and are listed as missing.
He is accused of committing the criminal offense of crimes against humanity, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH announced.
