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Indictment against nine persons for war crimes in Novoseoci

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, December 18 (FENA) - An indictment has been filed against nine people for crimes against humanity committed in Novoseoci in the Sokolac municipality, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH announced.

The accused are charged with the September 1992 attack on the village of Novoseoci and the killing of 45 Bosniak civilians.

The indictment charges them widespread and systematic attacks by the Territorial Defense, the Republika Srpska Army, and the police against the Bosniak civilian population in Sokolac and its surroundings. The indictment says that they acted as civilian officials, commanders and members of the 2nd Romanian Motorized Brigade ( 2.rmtbr.) of the RS Army, and as such participated in a joint criminal enterprise and attack on the village of Novoseoci, inhabited by Bosniaks, whose locals had previously surrendered their weapons and expressed loyalty to the local authorities in Sokolac.

The attack on the village of Novoseoci took place on September 21 and 22, 1992, when an old woman, D.K., was killed when the army entered the village, and then women and children were separated from men so that women and children could be taken to a bus to be transported to Sarajevo.

The accused, together with other soldiers, transported 44 captured Bosniak civilians in military trucks to a dump in Ivan Polje, Sokolac municipality, where they brought the prisoners in two groups to the edge of a sinkhole and killed a total of 44 civilians by shooting them with automatic weapons. The RS Army killed survivors with single gunshots.

Most of those killed were elderly. The youngest victim was 14 and the oldest 85 years old.

During the exhumation of the victims in 2000, the remains of 43 people and a large number of bullets and ammunition (178) were found in the bodies of those killed, which proves the cruelty of the murders.

(FENA) L. N.

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