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SARAJEVO, October 11 (FENA) - Atif Dudaković, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s 5th Corps, was charged alongside 16 subordinates with crimes including over 300 murders and the destruction of Serb Orthodox churches.
The BiH state prosecution on Thursday charged Atif Dudaković and 16 lower-ranking members of the Bosnian Army’s 5th Corps with the murders of more than 300 people, the persecution and abuse of civilians and prisoners of war, as well as the destruction of 38 Serbian Orthodox churches and religious buildings, BIRN reports.
They are accused of committing crimes against humanity in the municipalities of Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ, Bosanska Krupa and Sanski Most, and war crimes against the civilian population in the municipalities of Bihac and Cazin.
“The defendants have been charged with committing the murders of more than 300 Serbs, most of whom were civilians, mainly elderly people, as well as soldiers who had either surrendered or had been captured, which means they were deprived of the ability to fight,” the prosecution said in a statement.
The prosecution said the bodies of some of the victims were found after the war and exhumed from several individual and mass graves, while the search for some of those who were killed is still ongoing.
Part of the indictment of Atif Dudaković concerns war crimes against Bosniaks who were members and supporters of the National Defense force of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a self-proclaimed Bosniak-led wartime breakaway statelet.
Dudaković, a popular Bosniak military commander, commanded the Bihac enclave in north-west Bosnia during the war. After the conflict, he became the general commander of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s army.
His arrest in April this year sparked anger among Bosniak politicians and war veterans, but was praised by some Bosnian Serb politicians.
Other Bosnian Army Fifth Corps ex-soldiers who were indicted are Ekrem Dedić, Sanel Šabić, Ibrahim Šiljedić, Safet Salihagić, Adis Zjakić, Hasan Ružnić, Redžep Zlojić, Samir Solaković, Fatmir Muratović, Muharem Alešević, Husein Balagić, Ale Hodžić, Edin Domazet, Ejub Konjezić, Ibrahim Nadarević and Said Mujić.
(FENA) S. R.
