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BELGRADE/SARAJEVO, November 13 (FENA) - A court in Belgrade sentenced a former Bosnian Serb soldier to seven years in prison for the murder of a Bosniak civilian in the Ključ area during the Bosnian war in 1992.
Belgrade Higher Court handed down a first-instance verdict on Tuesday sentencing Milanko Dević, a former Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) soldier, to seven years in prison for killing a Bosniak civilian in 1992.
Dević was found guilty of killing civilian Ismet Šljivar in the second half of July 1992 in the village of Šljivari in the Bosnian municipality of Ključ, together with two other fighters, BIRN reports.
According to the prosecution, the three men arrived at Šljivar’s house armed, in Bosnian Serb Army uniforms. Using threats, they took Šljivar to a site near the river Sanica, where they shot him dead and threw his body in the river.
Tuesday’s verdict can be appealed.
Dević was initially charged before the Bosnian state court, but the case was turned over to the Serbian judiciary since, according to the Bosnian prosecution, Dević holds Serbian citizenship and almost never visits Bosnia.
Charges against Dević were filed in Serbia in April 2016, according to the Serbian war crimes prosecution.
The cantonal court in the Bosnian town of Bihac in February 2017 identified Bogdan Sobot as another of the three fighters who killed Šljivar, and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
The Bosnian Supreme Court upheld Sobot’s guilty verdict in February 2018, but reduced his sentence to six years.
(FENA) S. R.
