News in English     | 02.04.2018. 15:52 |

Edin Sakoč sentenced to five years in prison for war crimes

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, April 2 (FENA) - Upon a hearing held today, on 2 April 2018, the Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, handed down a judgment against the accused Edin Sakoč finding him guilty of the criminal offense of War Crimes against the Civilian Population in violation of Article 142(1) of the adopted Criminal Code of the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY), as read with Article 24 of the same Code.

In July 1992, in the Čapljina municipality, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the armed conflict between the Croatian Defense Council and the Army of RS, which existed during 1992 in the wider area of the Čapljina municipality, the accused Edin Sakoč, as a member of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO), along with a member of the HVO that he knew, known as Boban, acted in breach of the rules of international humanitarian law, violating the provisions of Article 3(1)(a) and (c) of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War of 12 August 1949, knowingly and willingly aided the person known as Boban to kill two Serb civilians who were not members of any military formations, and did not take any active part in combat operations.

In this regard, by applying Articles 33, 38 and 41 of the CC SFRY, the Court of BiH sentenced the accused to imprisonment for a term of 5 (five) years, to which the time he spent in custody, running from 19 February 2016 to 17 March 2016, will be credited pursuant to Article 50 of the CC SFRY.

Contrary to the foregoing, and pursuant to Article 284(1)(c) of the CPC BiH, the accused Edin Sakoč was acquitted of the charges that, in breach of the rules of international humanitarian law during the war and armed conflict in BiH, he knowingly and willingly raped a Serb individual, whereby he would have committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 173(1)(e) of the CC BiH, as charged under the Indictment.

Pursuant to Article 188(1) of the CPC BiH , the accused shall reimburse the costs of the criminal proceedings, the amount of which will be determined in a separate Court’s decision once the Court has obtained all necessary information, while in relation to the acquitting part of the Judgment, pursuant to Article 189(1) of the CPC BiH, the accused was relieved of the obligation to reimburse the costs of the criminal proceedings, which will be paid from within the budget appropriations of the Court.

Pursuant to Article 198(2) and (3) of the CPC BiH, the injured party was instructed to pursue his claim under property law in a civil action, stated the BiH Court.

(FENA) S. R.

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