3 Bosnian Serbs to Go on Trial in War Crimes Case
Three Bosnian Serbs accused of killing, torturing, raping and beating hundreds of Muslims and Croats at a detention unit in 1992 are to go on trial today at the U.N. war crimes court in the Netherlands.
Dusko Sikirica, alleged commander of the Keraterm camp in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina, faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.
Shift commanders Damir Dosen and Dragan Kolundzija, who supervised guards that operated the detention unit, are charged with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. All three have pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs were held in abject conditions at Keraterm and sister camps Omarska and Trnopolje from May through August 1992. Most prisoners at Keraterm were military-age males.
“At Keraterm, severe beatings, torture and killing of prisoners were commonplace,” the indictment says.
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