The Bosnian state prosecution said on Thursday that it has charged Nedzad Cehic, alias Ceha, with seizing prisoners and killing them at three locations during attacks by the Bosnian Army on positions held by the Bosnian Serb Army from the second half of May 1995 to mid-July that year.
The crimes were allegedly committed in Kobiljnjak, Osmaca and Cojluk in the Bosanska Krupa area of north-west Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The prosecution alleged that after the capture of at least 25 Bosnian Serb soldiers, four of whom were killed immediately while the remaining 21 were taken into captivity and held by the military police of the 511th Glorious Mountain Brigade.
It alleged that some of these captives were shot dead and others beaten to death with wooden stakes and other objects in front of a military prison.
“At least 25 captured members of the Bosnian Serb Army were killed in the manner indicated,” the prosecution said.
Cehic, who is charged with committing a crime against prisoners of war, was extradited from Austria in June this year. He is currently in custody.
Former Bosnian Army soldiers Senad Buzimkic, Rizah Fajic, Almir Sefic, Ermin Kadic, Amir Patkovic, Irfo Velagic and Suad Nesimovic are already on trial at the state court for the same crimes.
Source : Balkan Insight
