SARAJEVO – Bosnia’s state prosecutor on Saturday charged a former Bosnian Serb soldier with murder, rape and intimidation of non-Serbs in the capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The indictment of Veselin Vlahovic, 42, for crimes against humanity is one of the most extensive issued by the Bosnian war crimes court, said Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the prosecutor.
“The indictment has 56 counts and describes some of the most brutal war crimes committed against civilians in the Sarajevo neighbourhoods of Grbavica and Vraca in 1992 and 1993, including torture, abuse, rape and murders committed in the presence of the victims’ family members,” Grubesic said.
Vlahovic, also known as “Batko”, is charged with persecution, killings, arrests and imprisonment of Croats and Bosnian Muslims, many of whom remain unaccounted for, as well as with looting their property, he said.
