The prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Nedžad Ćehić (1972) from Bosanska Krupa, who is in custody and charged with war crimes against prisoners of war.
The accused is accused of acting contrary to the rules of international humanitarian law, violating the provisions of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, during the war and armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a member of the Military Police Platoon 511. Glorious Mountain Brigade ARBiH.
As stated in the indictment, the accused is charged in connection with the attack of the RBiH Army on the VRS positions in the area of Kobiljnjak, Osmača and Ćojluk in the area of Bosanska Krupa, from the second half of May 1995 until the middle of July 1995, in which, after capturing at least 25 members of the VRS, four of whom were immediately killed, and the remaining 21 were taken prisoner and kept under the supervision of the Military Police of the 511th Brigade of the RBiH Army.
The accused is accused of participating with other persons in the taking of prisoners and their murders at three locations, when some of the prisoners were shot dead at the Perna-Padež and Perna-Vojna ekonomija locations, and, as further stated, other prisoners in front of the military prison beaten to death with wooden stakes and other objects.
In this way, at least 25 captured members of the VRS were killed, and the bodies of the killed prisoners were exchanged and found during 1995 and 1996, while the body of one victim was found in 2004, the BiH Prosecutor’s Office announced.
The Prosecution will prove the allegations of the indictment by calling 115 witnesses, three expert witnesses and submitting more than 137 pieces of evidence.
For the mentioned events, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina previously filed an indictment against seven persons in the case Bužimkić Senad and others, and the accused Ćehić was unavailable to the judicial institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In June of this year, the accused was extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina by the partner and judicial institutions of Austria, with whom they jointly worked to find and locate him, the statement states.
