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Mrđa and Babić sentenced to 15 years in prison each for war crimes in Prijedor

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, November 30 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb policemen Darko Mrđa and Zoran Babić were sentenced to 15 years in prison each for murders and other crimes against Bosniaks in the Prijedor area in 1992.

The Bosnian state court on Friday found ex-policemen Darko Mrđa and Zoran Babić guilty of participating in the persecution of the Bosniak population of the Prijedor area as part of a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police force in July and August 1992.

Babić and Mrđa, both former members of intervention squads at the police Public Security Station in Prijedor, were each sentenced to 15 years in prison, BIRN reports.

A third ex-policeman, Radenko Marinović, was acquitted.

Mrđa was found guilty of killing two civilians in the village of Sredice on July 20, 1992. He was also charged with taking another man from his home, who was then killed two kilometers away.

The court found that Mrđa physically abused four prisoners on August 6, 1992 during their transport from the Omarska detention camp to the Manjača detention camp, hitting them with a wooden stick and with his fists.

According to the verdict, upon arrival at Manjača, Mrđa took a man from the bus and, with other members of intervention squad, beat him up. As a result of the beating, the man died.

Babić was convicted of killing two men with a knife.

“The chamber found no mitigating circumstances and as aggravating circumstances noted the defendants’ earlier convictions,” said presiding judge Mira Smajlović.

Babić has already been convicted of war crimes twice by the Bosnian court, while Mrđa has been convicted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal.

Neither man was present in court for the verdict.

The verdict can be appealed.

(FENA) S. R.

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