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SARAJEVO, November 12 (FENA) - Police in Trebinje in the entity of Republika Srpska filed a criminal complaint against two wartime Bosniak military commanders, accusing them of persecuting Serbs and Croats during wartime.
The police department in Trebinje announced on Tuesday that it has sent a criminal complaint to the state prosecution accusing wartime commanders Zulfikar Ališpago and Nezim Halilović of crimes against Serb and Croat civilians in the Konjic area in 1992 and 1993.
The Trebinje police said that Ališpago and Halilović are suspected of having planned and attacked the village of Donje Selo in the Konjic area on April 19, 1993, persecuting the local population and destroying their property.
“All of that also resulted in the murder of four Serb civilians, namely Zoran Kuljanin, Neđo Golubović, Obren Ristić and Petar Vukosav,” the police said.
According to the police, Ališpago was the commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Special Purposes Squad, while Halilović was the commander of the Fourth Light Muslim Brigade of the Bosnian Army.
The police also accused the two men of having abetted and ordered the persecution and detention of Serbs and Croats in the wartime Ćelebići, Musala and Tarčin detention camps, where more than 2,000 people were held at various points in time.
The state prosecution will now review the complaint and decide whether to open an investigation inti Ališpago and Halilović.
Alsipago is already on trial in Sarajevo for allegedly failing to take measures to punish subordinates who participated in murder of 18 civilians and four Croat Defense Council fighters during an attack on the village of Trusina on April 16, 1993.
Ališpago was originally accused along with five other Bosnian Army troops, Mensur Memić, Dževad Salčin, Senad Hakalović, Nedžad Hodžić and Nihad Bojadžić. But the proceedings against him were separated from the others in March 2014 after he fell ill, and his trial only restarted in May last year.
Memić, Hodžić and Bojadžić were sentenced to a total of 37 years for the Trusina killings, while Salčin and Hakalović were acquitted, BIRN reports.
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