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Serbian court convicts Bosnian Serb ex-soldier of war crimes in BiH

FENA Press release

BELGRADE/SARAJEVO, April 25 (FENA) - A Serbian court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb fighter Milan Dragišić to four years in prison for killing one Bosniak civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

The Belgrade High Court on Wednesday sentenced Milan Dragišić, a former soldier in the Bosnian Serb Army, to four years in prison for killing a Bosniak civilian and attempting to murder two others on September 20, 1992 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN reports.

According to the verdict, Dragišić killed a civilian named Asim Kavaz, and then tried to kill his son Muhamed and another man, Asmir Lemeš, in the western Bosnian village of Bosanski Petrovac.

He was acquitted of two more murders and one attempted murder.

The indictment had alleged that Dragišić shot Kavaz and two other Bosniak civilians dead and attempted to kill three others.

The prosecution claimed that he went on a rampage after seeing the dead body of his brother Dragan, who was killed in battle in Bihac in north-west Bosnia.

He pleaded not guilty in June 2015.

The first-instance verdict can be appealed.

(FENA) S. R.

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