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Indictment for Konjic Crimes Confirmed

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Konjic

18 March 2010  The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has confirmed an indictment against Sead Hakalovic, who is charged with war crimes against civilians committed in Konjic municipality.

Hakalovic is charged, as a member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, with having killed one person and wounded another in Gostovici village, Konjic municipality.

The indictment states that, "in the early morning hours" Hakalovic entered J.R.'s house and fired a magazine of bullets from an automatic rifle into Z.DJ.'s chest, "killing him immediately".  

The indictment states that when J.R. tried to run away together with her two sons, Hakalovic fired another magazine at her legs, causing her "severe injury in both lower legs".  

The State Prosecution contends that Hakalovic "unlawfully detained her adolescent son in the basement of her house", while J.R. was on her way to a hospital in Konjic.

The Prosecution argues that these crimes were committed during the course of the armed conflict between the ABiH and the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, and Hakalovic "acted contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on Protection of Civilians in Time of War".  

In addition to the indictment, the Prosecutor has filed a request for referral of this case to a local competent court on the basis that this was "an isolated act of violence which did not come as a result of the perpetrator's planned actions".  

In addition to this, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina considers the indictee did not have a command function at the time and, on the basis of criteria for assessment of complexity of cases, this case could not be considered as very complex and should therefore not be processed by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

"Referral of the case to a local competent court would not endanger the interests of victims, considering the fact that no protected witnesses are involved," the State Prosecution's motion says.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will render a decision concerning this motion at a later stage.

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