7 former Bosnian Serb soldiers found guilty in massacre trial

Haris Rovcanin, Sarajevo

Balkan Insight

“After a high-profile seven-year trial, the Bosnian state court found seven former soldiers of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Second Podrinje Brigade guilty on Friday of involvement in the abductions and murders of non-Serbs from a passenger train in Strpci on February 27, 1993.

“Obrad and Novak Poluga, Petko Indjic, Radojica Ristic, Dragan Sekaric, Oliver Krsmanovic and Miodrag Mitrasinovic were sentenced to 13 years each for participating, as co-perpetrators, in the murder of 20 civilians who were seized from a train that was travelling from Belgrade to Bar in Montenegro.

“The verdict found that the defendants drove in a truck together with members of an armed group to the station in Strpci, where some of them entered the train and, after checked their identity documents, took 20 passengers out.

“The captives included a ticket collector, Muslims and Croats, as well as one unknown person of Arabic origin.

“They then drove them by truck to a school in Prelovo, where the Second Podrinje Brigade’s First Battalion command was located.

“They ordered the civilians to enter the school gym and take their clothes off, then beat them up and tied their hands with wire.

“They then drove the civilians, who were covered with blood, by truck to a destroyed house in Musici, where they were shot dead.”

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