Member of the Assembly NS BiH war crimes suspect in the notorious Heliodrom
Mile Puljic, delegate to the Assembly of Soccer / Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (S / FS BiH) and a member of the Presidency of Columbus Crew, the current champion of BiH, suspected of war crimes.
Charges against Puljic, otherwise, longtime director of the Waterworks in Mostar, BiH Prosecutor's Office yesterday and has already sent for confirmation in the Court of BiH.
"With the indictment, the court was forwarded to the voluminous evidence from hundreds of evidence, and it is proposed calling 85 witnesses for the prosecution and two technical expert," said the BiH Prosecutor's Office.
It is the case of Category 2, which is referred to the Prosecutor's Office at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague transferred to the prosecution of the Prosecutor's Office.
"Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes issued an indictment against Mile Puljic, born 20 June 1954 in Stolac, residing in Mostar, BiH citizen and the Croatian. The accused is charged that during the war in Bosnia and the conflict between the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and HVO, in his capacity as commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the HVO in the Mostar area, within a widespread and systematic attack directed against a civilian population of Bosniak ethnicity, acted in contravention of the provisions of international humanitarian law. he is charged with having participated in a joint criminal venture, in which war crimes were committed against Bosniaks ", emphasized the Prosecution, adding:
These crimes were committed enforced disappearances, unlawful detention of Bosniaks and closing in prisons and concentration camps, execution of civilians from the camp to the coercion works, on the front line and human shields, as well as the expulsion of women, children and the elderly, who were then illegally detained at various locations, and forcibly transferred to the territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina ".
In a statement from the Prosecutor's Office said that "in the context of these crimes, performing illegally detained Bosniaks from the Heliodrom and other detention facilities to perform forced labor on the front line, forcing them into human shields and abuse in other ways, killed 11 Bosniak victims nationalities, more than 70 of the victims were injured and two people were taken in an unknown direction, since when they have been unaccounted for, and after the war were found and exhumed their remains ".
The indictment says that from Heliodrom and other locations, on several occasions, to forced labor taken from tens to more than 100 illegally detained Bosniak civilians.
"The crimes described in the indictment about 15 Bosniak victims were physically abused and tortured in humiliating ways, by members of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd HVO Brigade, commanded by the accused. It is a very extensive indictment, which relates to a large number of war crimes committed during 1993 and 1994, over hundreds of Bosniak victims. the accused are charged with having committed a crime - a crime against humanity, under Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina ", explained the BiH Prosecutor's Office, according to Anadolu Agency.
Puljic, despite the indictment for war crimes at large, and after the indictment said "defend and almost".
- 18 Dec, 2014
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