SARAJEVO, December 19 (FENA) - International ‘red notices’ have been issued for the arrests of ex-fighters Darko Mrđa and Dragan Marjanović, who have both fled Bosnia and Herzegovina after being convicted of wartime crimes.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is seeking the arrests of Bosnian Serb ex-policeman Darko Mrđa and ex-military policeman Dragan Marjanović, who both absconded after second-instance verdicts, convicted them of wartime crimes.
‘Red notices’ calling on countries worldwide to assist in detaining them have been posted on Interpol’s website, BIRN reports.
Mrđa and Marjanović did not appear for sentencing hearings and their lawyers said that they had not been in contact with them for several months.
Mrđa, a former member of an intervention squad at the police Public Security Station in Prijedor, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in November 2018.
He was convicted of killing two civilians and abusing Bosniak prisoners in the Prijedor area in 1992.
Marjanović, a former commander of a platoon of the Bosnian Serb Army Teslić Brigade’s military police, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in July 2018, although the sentence was later reduced to 14 years on appeal.
He was convicted of involvement in the killings of 28 Bosniak civilians on Mount Borje near Teslić in 1992.
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