Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

A report was filed against Naser Oric, Zulfo Tursunovic, Nedzad Bektic, Mirsad Dudic, Smajo Mandzic, Ahmo Tihic, Hakija Meholjic, Emir Halilovic, Safet Omerovic, Huso Salihovic, Ibro Jakubovic, Fikret Secic, Vekaz Husic, Veiz Bjelic, Kemal Mehmedovic and Adam Kostjerevac.

Report by Ognjen Begovic.

ISTOCNO SARAJEVO, January 31 /SRNA/ - In 2006 the Bijeljina Public Safety Centre filed a report on crimes against Serbs in the municipalities of Srebrenica, Bratunac, Milici, Vlasenica, Sekovici and Zvornik, and Naser Oric is among the persons listed in the report.

On February 9, 2006, the report was submitted to the BiH Prosecution in Sarajevo and the Bijeljina District Prosecution against 16 Bosniaks on suspicion that they took part in the killing of 636 Serbs in these municipalities in the period 1992-1996.

The victims include 101 women, 15 children and 97 elderly and sick, SRNA was told at the Republika Srpska Ministry of Internal Affairs.

SRNA has unofficially learned that the report was filed against Naser Oric, Zulfo Tursunovic, Nedzad Bektic, Mirsad Dudic, Smajo Mandzic, Ahmo Tihic, Hakija Meholjic, Emir Halilovic, Safet Omerovic, Huso Salihovic, Ibro Jakubovic, Fikret Sescic, Vekaz Husic, Veiz Bjelic, Kemal Mehmedovic and Adem Kostjerevac.

They all are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against civilians, war crimes against prisoners of war, war crimes against the imprisoned and sick, as well as with the destruction of cultural, historical and religious monuments.

At the time, Oric was the commander of the Srebrenica Territorial Defence and the commander of the so-called armed forces of the Srebrenica sub-region.

Tursunovic, Bektic, Dudic, Mandzic and Tihic were commanders of brigades and members of the command staff of the Srebrenica armed forces, and Meholjic was the head of the Srebrenica Public Safety Centre. The other suspects were members of the so-called armed forces of the Srebrenica Territorial Defence.

The aim of all the suspects, together with the other commanders and units of the Srebrenica armed forces of the so-called BiH Army and the Srebrenica Public Safety Centre, as members and participants of a joint criminal enterprise, was to kill as many Serbs as possible – women, children and elderly – and to expel them from their ancestral land and homes, says the report.

This criminal enterprise in the period from April 1992 to July 1995 resulted in the killings /in very cruel ways – shooting in the back of the head, butchering, cutting off body parts, torching, raping, killing from ambush/ of over 3,000 men, women and children, Serbs from the Srebrenica enclave, and in the expulsion of some 15,000.

In violation of international humanitarian law during the armed conflicts in BiH, these persons – members of the so-called BiH Army – planned, organised, prepared, launched, ordered and took part in the commission of the said crimes against the Serbian population.

SRNA was told at the Republika Srpska Ministry of Internal Affairs that on October 25 last year, the BiH Prosecution informed it that the documentation submitted with the report is being analysed, and that the Prosecution will in the coming period take measures to collect evidence.

While investigating and documenting crimes against humanity and crimes against values protected by international law committed in the BiH civil war, the Republika Srpska Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Bijeljina Public Safety Centre and the Zvornik Public Safety Centre, in cooperation with police stations in Srebrenica, Bratunac, Milici, Sekovici and Vlasenica, took a number of measures and actions in cases of the said war crimes.

In the area of Srebrenica, crimes were committed in the town itself and the surrounding villages – Gniona, Gostilj, Viogor, the helmets of Vasiljevici, Bare, Rovici and Kovacica, the villages of Radosevici, Oparci, Bojna, Obadi, Zalazje, Crkvine, Ratkovici, the helmets of Ducici, Bradjevina, Magudovici, Krnjici, Brezani and Podravanje.

In the area of Skelani, members of the so-called BiH Army, commanded by Naser Oric, committed crimes against Serbs in the villages of Kostolomci, Cosici, Zabokvica, Kalimanici, the helmets of Kusici, Dvizovici, Savici, Popovici, Rosulje, Visocnik, Stajcici, Pribidol and Arapovici.

In the area of Milici, they committed war crimes against Serbs in the villages of Metaljka, Vandzici, Rupovo Brdo and at the Bracan bauxite open pit mine. Serbs in the Bratunac area were killed in the villages of Stanatovici, Magasici, Jezestica, Bjelovac, Sikiric, Loznica, Zagoni, Pajici, Hranca, Fakovici and Kravica.

Bosniak units committed crimes against Serbs in the area of Sekovici Municipality in the villages of Korijen and Kalabace, and in Vlasenica municipality in the villages of Rogosija, Sadici and Cikotska Rijeka, and in Zvornik Municipality in the villages of Gornja and Donja Kamenica, Novo Selo and Drinjaca.

Investigating war crimes against Serbs in the area of Srebrenica and Bratunac, police officers of the Bijeljina Public Safety Centre acted on 26 orders of the Bijeljina District Prosecution.

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution is conducting an investigation against the war-time commander of the so-called Army of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Naser Oric, Hakija Meholjic, and another three Bosniaks on suspicion that they killed nine Serbian civilians on St. Peter’s Day in 1992.

The BiH Police Body Coordination Directorate rejected the request of Interpol Belgrade to check into Naser Oric, Nurija Husic, Hakija Meholjic, Amir Mehmedovic and Smajo Mandzic for the purpose of the issuing of an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes against civilians.

http://www.srna.rs/novosti/175378/report-against-16-bosniaks-for-killing-636-serbs.htm