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Two persons indicted for crimes against humanity in Foča

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, December 30 (FENA) - The Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes has filed an indictment against Spomenko Novović, born in 1966 in Foča, and Borislav Pjano, born in 1968 in Foča, employed as a police officer in the Republika Srpska Interior Ministry in Foča.

The Accused are charged that, during the war and the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of a widespread and systematic attack by the VRS, police and paramilitary units, on the Bosniak civilian population in the Foča area, they persecuted civilians on national and religious grounds and acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

The Accused Novović is charged with personally killing five elderly Bosniak civilians born around 1932 and older, using a cold weapon, after which he set fire to the house with the bodies of the killed civilians, and that he subsequently participated in the murder of one elderly civilian, and the inhumane treatment of two elderly Bosniaks. The crimes were committed in the towns of Dragočava, Pošajatovići and Šube, in the municipality of Foča, in the summer of 1992.

The Accused Pjano is charged with participating in the capture and illegal detention of a group of 17 Bosniaks in Potpeće in the summer of 1992, after which 11 persons were taken out of the house, and the Accused Pjano, together with other persons, personally and directly, firing from a firearm, participated in the killing of six Bosniaks who remained in the house, after which the perpetrators threw a bomb into the house and then set the house on fire, along with the bodies of the killed civilians.

The group of 11 civilians, together with two other civilians, were transported by truck by perpetrators and taken into custody in the Foča area, after which they were expelled to the Trnovo area.

Also, the Accused Pjano is charged with robbing a Bosniak woman in August 1992 with the threat of a weapon. He stole from her a large amount of family gold jewelry, and he is accused with inhumanely treating a captured Bosniak civilian.

The accused are charged with the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity.

According to the indictment, the Prosecution will prove by calling 54 witnesses and enclosing more than 300 pieces of material evidence.

The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH announced.

(FENA) L. N.

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