Bosnian Serbs file charges against 49 wartime Muslim army members
SRNA - March 3, 2004

Banja Luka, 3 March: The [Bosnian] Serb Republic secretariat for relations with the Hague tribunal today submitted to the Hague tribunal prosecutor's office in Banja Luka the criminal charges against Naser Orlic, Zulfo Tursunovic, Abdurahman Malkic, Hakija Meholjic, Safet Omerovic and another 44 members of the so-called Bosnia -Hercegovina Army, the secretariat has said.

These people are suspected of issuing orders, or as soldiers, of committing genocide and war crimes against civilians, POWs, wounded and ill people, and using prohibited means of combat.

They are suspected of launching attacks on a number of the villages in the Srebrenica area inhabited by Serbs between May 1992 and the end of the summer in 1993, and killing, wounding, arresting and torturing a large number of civilians, and stealing and destroying their property.

The statement says that in these attacks at least 303 people were killed, a minimum of 114 persons wounded, at least 392 houses and auxiliary facilities burnt down, mobile property stolen, and that at least three [Serbian] Orthodox churches were destroyed and church objects and graves desecrated.

The attacks were launched on the villages of Medje and Greben, 13 villages in the Skelana area, including Voljevica, Ratkovici, Mlecva, Borovac, Zalazje and the helmet of Obadi, Radonjici, Azlica, the village of Krnjici, the village of Hrapca and its helmets, the village of Oparci in the local community of Kravice, the village of Ratkovici and its helmets, the villages of Vranesevici, Ruljevici, Grujicici, Seona, Stanatovici, Borovac, Zaviganj, Tuk, Fakovici, Divovici, Radijevici, Boljevici, Kutesje, Kostolomce and (?Djapakovac), the village of Brezani, Skirici, Loznica and Bjelovac.
 

Original Language: Serbo-Croat
BBC Monitoring Original Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina

SRNA news agency, Bijeljina March 3, 2004 1548 gmt /BBC Monitoring/(c) BBC Record Number: 1011C88BB23D586F
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