The prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Nermin Porić (1969) from Bosanska Krupa for the criminal offense of war crimes against prisoners of war.
The accused is accused of acting contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Prisoners of War during the war and armed conflict in BiH, as commander of the Military Police of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Prosecutor’s Office announced.
The indictment states that in the summer of 1995, during the attack and capture of at least 25 members of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), in the localities of Kobiljnjak, Osmača and Ćolujka in the municipality of Bosanska Krupa, as a commander in the Military Police, he personally participated in taking and the shooting of some of the prisoners. Also, as stated, he knew that members of the Military Police under him were carrying out illegal abductions and murders of prisoners, and he did nothing to prevent the commission of crimes and punish the perpetrators.
Four prisoners were immediately killed, and the rest were taken to detention facilities controlled by the Military Police of the 511th famous mountain brigade of the ARBiH, after which they were killed in three locations, some by gunshots, and some by severe beatings to death.
Given that the accused is located in the territory of Austria, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina will in the following period undertake the activities provided for by law for his extradition and trial in Bosnia and Herzegovina, announced the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
