BIH PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE: INDICTMENT FILED FOR WAR CRIMES IN TESLIĆ IN 1992

SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 11 (ONASA) – The prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment against Dragan Babić, known as “Brćo” or “Vodnik”, born in 1967 in Teslić, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Milivoje Maletić, known as “Šnjegotinac “, born in 1966 in Čelinac, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The crimes refer to the murder of six victims, as well as the severe abuse of dozens of people illegally detained in a facility in Pribinić near Teslić.
The accused are accused of having, during the war and the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in their capacity as members of the VRS, the accused Babić in his capacity as facility manager, as well as a member of the Military Police and the accused Maletić in his capacity as a guard in the detention facility in Pribinić, during 1992, acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Civilians and Prisoners of War during Conflicts,
They are accused of having personally, as well as with other persons, participated in the murders, tortures, abuses, beatings, inflicting severe physical and mental injuries, tortures in extremely humiliating ways and holding in inhumane conditions, at least 110 persons of Bosniak and Croat nationality, more partly civilians, as well as prisoners of war, who were detained in the mentioned facility near Teslić.
The committed crimes resulted in the death of 6 people, three Bosniak victims and three Croat victims, of which not a single murder was committed with a firearm, but death occurred as a result of severe abuse and physical injuries. The abuse of detainees, in a large number of cases, resulted in serious physical injuries, multiple bone fractures and severe physical damage, the consequences of which are still visible in the victims today.
The prosecution will prove the allegations of the indictment by calling 57 witnesses, of which two witnesses with protective measures, as well as by submitting around 90 pieces of evidence.
The indictment was forwarded to the Court of BiH for confirmation.