The state court did not order the detention of Dragoljub Kunarac, accused of crimes in Foča, as requested by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina today due to the risk of escape and public disturbance, but rather injunctive measures were imposed on him, his lawyer Anja Loga confirmed for Detektor.
Loga also said that Kunarac was released.
At the hearing held today after Kunarac was transferred from Germany after serving the 28-year prison sentence to which he was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal, the Prosecution requested custody, which the defense assessed as unfounded, stating that the accused did not object to coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina to face the charges.
The Prosecution, if the Court would not comply with the proposal for ordering custody, proposed the ordering of prohibitory measures.
According to the indictment, Kunarac, in his capacity as commander of the special unit of the Army of the Republika Srpska called “Žaga”, with other uniformed and armed members of “Žaga’s” unit, on July 27 and 28, 1992, from the area of the villages and hamlets of Kobilja Ravan, Luka and Falovići – Podpeće, as part of the persecution, participated in the murders of at least six people, as well as the torture and infliction of severe physical and psychological suffering on captured civilians, as well as the deportation of civilians population of Bosniak nationality. During the attack on Bosniak civilians, Kunarac is accused of having participated in the burning of houses and property.
Kunarac was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal to 28 years in prison for multiple rapes, and for enslaving two women whom he completely deprived of control over their lives and treated as if they were his property.
