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SARAJEVO, October 11 (FENA) - In the criminal case against the accused Ostoja Stanišić, the Appellate Division Panel of Section I for War Crimes at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered a judgment finding the accused Ostoja Stanišić guilty of the criminal offense of Genocide under Article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY), as read with Article 24 of the Code, announced the BiH Court.
The accused Ostoja Stanišić was found guilty that, as Commander of Zvornik Brigade’s 6th Battalion, in a broader territory of the Petkovci and Đulići villages, including the Desanka Maksimović elementary school (the Nova škola in Petkovci) and the Culture Center building, which were used for the needs of the 6th Battalion, as well as the Red Dam, all located in the Zvornik municipality, in July 1995, he knowingly rendered assistance to members of the RS army and police, including Radovan Karadžić, Republika Srpska President and VRS chief-in-command; Ratko Mladić, VRS Main Staff Commander; Ljubiša Beara, Head of the Security and Intelligence Service at the VRS Main Staff; Vujadin Popović, Head of Security at the VRS Drina Corps; and Drago Nikolić, Assistant Commander for Security at the Zvornik Brigade, who had a plan to permanently remove the Bosniak population from Srebrenica, and capture, incarcerate, forcibly remove, summarily execute and bury the able-bodied Bosniak men from the UN safe area of Srebrenica, and thus exterminate a group of Bosniak people, during which the entire Bosniak civilian population, up to 40,000 Bosniak civilians, was removed from the enclave of Srebrenica, while more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys were summarily executed, buried and re-buried into secondary mass graves.
The Appellate Panel sentenced the accused Ostoja Stanišić to 5 (five) years of imprisonment.
Pursuant to Article 50 of the CC SFRY, the time the accused spent in pre-trial custody, from 21 June 2012 to 12 April 2013 shall be credited towards the sentence of imprisonment.
Pursuant to Article 188(4), the accused is relieved of the obligation to reimburse the costs of criminal proceeding, while the aggrieved parties are advised to file a civil lawsuit to pursue their compensation claims under Article 198(2) of the CPC BiH.
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