Muhamed Vojić’s family was killed in the Duljci massacre.
Former Bosnian Serb serviceman Djuro Tadic was jailed for 10 years for participating in the killings of 18 Bosniak civilians including a teenage girl near the Bosnian town of Bihac.
Belgrade’s special court found Tadic guilty on Thursday of involvement in the murders in the village of Duljci near the north-western Bosnian town of Bihac in September 1992.
Tadic, together with seven other Bosnian Serb fighters, attacked a group of Bosniak civilians who were working on a forced labour scheme, picking plums at a farm in Duljci, the verdict said.
“On the basis of the witnesses’ testimony, the court determined that armed and masked men left the car, started walking towards the farm and then started shooting randomly at civilians,” said presiding judge Mira Ilic.
She said that most of the victims were women and elderly people, as well as one 13-year-old girl, and added that there are still 11 victims missing.
“After people were shot, one of the men approached them and started stabbing the bodies with the knife,” judge Ilic said.
“Additionally, the bodies of the killed civlians were doused with gasoline and set on fire,” she said.
According to the judge, the trial determined beyond reasonable doubt that one of the attackers was Tadic.
The case against Tadic was transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2012. In February 2012, former Bosnian Serb fighters Zoran Tadic, Jovica Tadic and Zeljko Babic were also sentenced to 12 years in prison in Bosnia for the same crime.
Two other ex-fighters, Zoran Berga and Goran Mihajlovic, were sentenced to 11 and 10 years in jail respectively.
Two men who were also charged, Gojko Djuric and Slobodan Djuric, died before the verdict, while another alleged to have taken part in the killings, Cvetko Tadic, is on the run.
The verdict can be appealed within 30 days.
Filed under: Genocide Tagged: Bihac, Bihac massacre, Bosnian Genocide, Duljci Massacre, Forced Labor in the Bosnian Genocide, Genocide in Bosnia, Serbian war criminals
