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Indictment Against Ivica Perkovic Confirmed

Sud BiH
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18 March 2010  The State Court has confirmed an indictment against Ivica Perkovic, known as Mungos, for crimes against civilians committed in Derventa municipality.

The indictment, which contains six counts, charges Perkovic, a former member of the 103rd Derventa Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, with having intentionally caused severe physical and mental pain to Serbs who were detained in the Yugoslav National Army, JNA, Center, the so-called "Rabic" warehouse and the school building in Zelenika village, Derventa municipality, during April, May and June 1992.  

The Prosecution contends that the indictee detained more than 20 Serb residents of Cardak village in the JNA Center in the second half of April 1992. It further contends that he poured salt into their mouths, forcing them to swallow it and beat them, by slapping them and then hitting them with his fist, thus causing them physical and mental suffering.  

Perkovic is charged with having beaten people in the premises of the school in Zelenika, where, accompanied by other HVO members, he physically abused a prisoner for more than an hour by sliding a knife over his neck and pointing a revolver at his head, pulling the trigger and playing "Russian roulette".

Besides the brutal beating and causing of mental suffering, Perkovic is charged with having abetted other HVO members to join him in abusing prisoners.  

The data available to the State Prosecution suggest that Perkovic lives in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, and has citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina previously sentenced Ivica Vrdoljak, a former member of the 103rd HVO Brigade from Derventa, to five years in prison for crimes committed in Derventa.