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SARAJEVO, July 26 (FENA) - The BiH Court's Appeals Chamber upheld a verdict convicting four former Bosnian Army military policemen of physically and sexually abusing Croat civilians at a detention facility in the village of Kruščica near Vitez in 1993.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday upheld the verdict sentencing ex-soldiers Minet Akeljić, Šaban Haskić, Senad Bilal and Hazim Patković to a total of 27 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the village of Kruščica in 1993.
The first-instance verdict on October 2018 sentenced Akeljić and Haskić to seven years each, Bilal to eight years and Petković to five years in prison for the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Croat civilians at a detention facility in the village of Kruščica known as Crna Kuca, (the Black House).
Akeljić was found guilty in his capacity as former commander of the military police of the Bosnian Army’s First Battalion with the 325th Mountain Brigade and the other defendants as Bosnian Army military policemen.
“This was not an isolated case of abuse, but a systematic one, as is confirmed by the number of criminal acts,” said presiding judge Davorin Jukić while delivering last year’s first-instance verdict, BIRN reports.
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