Serbia, Scandinavians liaising over war crimes
The War Crimes Prosecution is working intensively with Norway and Sweden over crimes against Serbs in Bosnia.
Thursday, 28.08.2008.
15:25
The War Crimes Prosecution is working intensively with Norway and Sweden over crimes against Serbs in Bosnia. In question are investigations into crimes perpetrated against Serb civilians in Dretelj camp in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 1992, said Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric. Serbia, Scandinavians liaising over war crimes He says that cooperation with Norwegian organs began in March 2007 when an investigation was launched against Mirsad Repak, a Norwegian national suspected of committing war crimes against Serb prisoners in Dretelj, near Capljina, in 1992. Vekaric told Beta that the probe had been joined last May by the Public Prosecution in Stockholm that is leading pre-investigative proceedings against a suspect who lives in Sweden, suspected of committing crimes in the same camp. “As part of the cooperation in the investigation into crimes at Dretelj camp, the Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has supplied the Norwegian and Swedish police services with five notifications of witnesses who were injured parties, and copies of 62 statements by other injured parties from the archives of the Committee for Collecting Evidence on Crimes Against Humanity,“ the spokesman said. A large number of documents and information on the Dretelj camp have been submitted, as well a documentary film entitled “Zastava Filma“, and information on the situation at the time, at the request of Norwegian investigators. The Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has contacted 27 witnesses, while Norwegian and Swedish police inspectors have spoken to 11 witness over the course of two visits to Serbia. The trial of Repak (41), a former member of the Croat Defense Force (HOS) paramilitary formation, began yesterday in Oslo. He is accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and rape in Dretelj camp. According to Vekaric, as part of cooperation between Serbia and Norway in the case, the prosecution plans to question eight witnesses that live in Serbia—three in court, and the other five via video link. He said that in other cooperation with the Norwegians, one of the accused in the Ovcara war crimes trial, Damir Sireta, had been extradited to Serbia. Repak’s war crimes trial is the first of its kind since World War 2.
Serbia, Scandinavians liaising over war crimes
He says that cooperation with Norwegian organs began in March 2007 when an investigation was launched against Mirsad Repak, a Norwegian national suspected of committing war crimes against Serb prisoners in Dretelj, near Čapljina, in 1992.Vekarić told Beta that the probe had been joined last May by the Public Prosecution in Stockholm that is leading pre-investigative proceedings against a suspect who lives in Sweden, suspected of committing crimes in the same camp.
“As part of the cooperation in the investigation into crimes at Dretelj camp, the Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has supplied the Norwegian and Swedish police services with five notifications of witnesses who were injured parties, and copies of 62 statements by other injured parties from the archives of the Committee for Collecting Evidence on Crimes Against Humanity,“ the spokesman said.
A large number of documents and information on the Dretelj camp have been submitted, as well a documentary film entitled “Zastava Filma“, and information on the situation at the time, at the request of Norwegian investigators.
The Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has contacted 27 witnesses, while Norwegian and Swedish police inspectors have spoken to 11 witness over the course of two visits to Serbia.
The trial of Repak (41), a former member of the Croat Defense Force (HOS) paramilitary formation, began yesterday in Oslo. He is accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and rape in Dretelj camp.
According to Vekarić, as part of cooperation between Serbia and Norway in the case, the prosecution plans to question eight witnesses that live in Serbia—three in court, and the other five via video link.
He said that in other cooperation with the Norwegians, one of the accused in the Ovčara war crimes trial, Damir Sireta, had been extradited to Serbia.
Repak’s war crimes trial is the first of its kind since World War 2.
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