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SARAJEVO, October 16 (FENA) - Zdenko Grbavac, who is charged with persecuting Serbs in the Konjic area in 1992-93, left Bosnia and Herzegovina for Croatia after his release from custody, the prosecution said.
A war crimes hearing in Sarajevo was postponed on Tuesday after ex-fighter Zdenko Grbavac fled to Croatia following his release from three months in custody, the state prosecution said, BIRN reports.
Grbavac and 12 other suspects are charged with persecuting the Serb population in the Konjic area of Bosnia in 1992 and 1993 by murdering several dozen civilians, committing rape, torturing people and carrying out other inhumane acts.
The indictment alleges that they are also responsible for the unlawful detention of a large group of Serbs from the town of Konjic and surrounding villages.
Grbavac was arrested in December, as were the other indictees, Esad and Agan Ramić, Sefik Nikšić, Adnan Alikadić, Mitko Pirkić, Redžo Balić, Hamed Lukomirko, Safaudin Ćosić, Muhamed Cakić, Ismet Hebibović, Almir Padalović, Enes Jahić, Senadin Cibo, Željko Šimunović and Omer Borić.
According to the indictment, the men committed the crimes while they were commanders or serving members of the Bosnian Army, Territorial Defense forces, the Croat Defense Council, the police and paramilitary groups.
(FENA) S. R.
