The State Court has changed the ban on Dragoljub Kunarac, accused of crimes in Foča, to restrict his movement within the municipality instead of house arrest, it has been confirmed to Detektor.
He was transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina in February this year from Germany, where he was serving a 28-year prison sentence, to which he was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal for multiple rapes and for enslaving two women, whom he completely deprived of control over their lives and treated as his own property. He is currently on trial for crimes in Foča.
The Court explained that Kunarac is still prohibited from traveling, meeting with certain people, and that he is obliged to report to the competent police station three times a week.
Kunarac said at a recent hearing that he had spent 28 years in prison and that he had two hours to walk, and that “now he has nothing and he thinks that is not correct”.
According to the indictment, Kunarac, in his capacity as commander of a special unit of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) called “Žaga”, together with other uniformed and armed members of “Žaga’s” unit, on 27 and 28 July 1992, from the villages and hamlets of Kobilja Ravan, Luke and Falovići – Potpeće, as part of the persecution, participated in the murder of at least six people, as well as the torture and infliction of severe physical and mental suffering on captured civilians, as well as the deportation of the civilian population of Bosniak ethnicity. Kunarac is also charged with having participated in the burning of houses and property during the attacks on Bosniak civilians.
