3 hours agoBelgrade: Serbian prison sentenced to 15 years, which killed nine Albanian civilians in Croatia
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(6 years ago)The Supreme Court in Belgrade approved a verdict on Bosko Soldavovic's sentence to 15 years in prison for the murder of nine Albanian civilians, on 11 November 1991, in the Croatian town of Bogdanovci, not far from Vukovar. The nongovernmental organization Fund for Humanitarian Law, which deals with war crimes, estimated the penalty was [...]
The Supreme Court in Belgrade approved a verdict on Bosko Soldavovic's sentence to 15 years in prison for the murder of nine Albanian civilians, on 11 November 1991, in the Croatian town of Bogdanovci, not far from Vukovar.
The nongovernmental organization Fund for Humanitarian Law, which deals with war crimes, estimated that punishment was just and appropriate for the weight of the work done.
The trial began on January 16, 2020, and ended on December 8, 2020, with the adoption of the first degree decision, which makes this procedure very efficient and at the same time an example of judgment in a reasonable time. So far, this is the fastest-speed procedure in Serbia, and this practice should continue even in the future”, the Fund for Humanitarian Law said in a statement.
On December 12th 2018, the War Crimes Prosecutor filed an indictment against Soldatovic, a member of the Second Brigade Military Police of the former Yugoslav Army (JNA).
He was charged that on November 11th 1991, in Bogdanovc, which was under JNA control, near the local community building, killed nine Albanians.
Based on the testimony of Soldavovic's fellow fighters, the court confirmed that he had committed those murders, while witnesses who were not direct eyewitnesses claimed that among JNA members were said to have been killed by Soldatovic.
The Fund for Humanitarian Law recalled in a statement that the War Crimes Prosecutor in July 2019 filed criminal charges against JNA commander Dusan Loncar for crimes in Bogdanovc, because as commander of the brigade, whose member was Soldatovic, he did nothing to determine who killed civilians, although he was physically present in Bogdanovic.
In 2016, the Fund filed another criminal complaint against Loncar at the War Crimes Prosecution for a crime committed in the Croatian town of Lovas in 1991, when Loncar ordered an attack on a non-x0> hostile civil population”.
To date, the prosecution has not launched an investigation against Loncar for either of these two crimes, the Fund said of Humanitarian Law.
