After 28 years in Germany, Serbian war criminal will be tried in Bosnia

He has served a 28-year prison sentence in Germany for several cases of rape in 1992, which he had condemned The Hague Tribunal.

Kunarac will face trial before BiH justice bodies on new charges concerning war crimes committed in the eastern part of the country. The BiH prosecution charges Kunarac with war crimes committed in 1992 in the Foca region, including the killing of at least six Bosnian national civilians, for which he has not responded to The Hague Tribunal.

He is also accused of torture, deportation of Bosnian civilians and destruction of property, including burning houses, writes Ix.hr.

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The crimes were committed as part of the persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak population, and Kunarac was commander of the special unit “Zhaga” of the Republika Srpska Army.

Kunarac, in fact, was sentenced in 2002 before The Hague Tribunal to 28 years in prison for crimes committed in Foca in 1992, when he was commander of the Republika Srpska Army special unit involved in many crimes against the Bosnian civilian population. Kunarac became the first indictee convicted by The Hague Tribunal for raping and torturing Bosnian women.

In addition to rape, Kunarac was responsible for other crimes in Foca, including the burning of homes and property, as well as the deportation of the Bosniak population.

According to the indictment, his unit was key to committing criminal acts in this region, and many victims were civilians who were tortured, raped and murdered brutally./Periscopi/