Posted on 03/27/2008 8:55:46 AM PDT by joan
They took civilian captives to an improvised prison in the Ribnjak village, where they were physically and mentally tortured, then killed.
An indictment has been filed against six military police officers for the murder of 16 Serbian civilians near the village Pakrac in 1991. The police were part of the former military police in the 76th independent battalion of the national guard. An investigation has been opened at the county court in Pozega.
Even though the commanders of the military police in Pakrac, Damir Kufner and Dario Simic, have been arrested a month ago for war crimes against civilians around the Pakrac area, the investigation into these crimes continues, writes Jutarnji List.
Besides those mentioned above, Zeljko Tutic, Tomislav Poletto and Ante Ivezic were arrested before Easter, and Pavle Vancas was arrested on Tuesday.
Via Mercep to new war criminals
These arrests occurred on the basis of materials that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sent the State Attorney, which were gathered during the investigation against Tomislav Mercep. Remember, Mercep’s actions were the subject of Hague investigations at one time, but there was never an indictment in his name.
Those materials cover crimes against the Serbian population in the Vukovar and Pakrac regions, that were committed by members of MUP’s (Ministry of Internal Affairs) reserve, who were commended by Mercep at the time.
During the investigation of the murders, the investigators found out that units outside of Mercep’s command committed the crimes, the military police unit of the 76th battalion was a part of ZNG (national guard), and later HV (Croatian Army).
As early as 1991, investigations were made for the murder of civilians
Evidence shows that the police went to the scene of the crimes in 1991, made reports and filed indictments, but they were never acted upon.
The current indictment states that members of Kufner’s and Simic’s units entered Serbian houses and took people by force.
The justification for doing so was a search for weapons. However, when weapons were not found, they took civilians captive anyway.
They took the prisoners to an improvised prison in Ribnjak, where they were physically and psychologically abused, and finally killed. Most often this was on the banks of fish ponds, where they would throw the bodies into the water.
In multiple cases, writes Jutarnji List, guards of the fish ponds would find bodies that the water would carry to the banks.
Mercep and his death squads killed thousands of Serbs in Slavonia (just one of his men Miro Bajramovic admitted that he personally killed scores of Serbs in the Gospic area, and Mercep had previously been operating in Vukovar before the "fall of Vukovar"), and then you had other death squads of the Croat army, paramilitary and police. The true number of Serb civilians murdered in Croatia '91-'95 might never be fully and truly researched but it is several thousands.
Bump!
Good. Now they need to find Mladic and Karadzic
You just can't stop lying.
Doesn't matter though....you're reduced to spreading lies on the internet while your Serbia gets smaller and smaller.
LOL
And, I might add, Ante Gotovina did nothing, Ivan Cermak did nothing, Mladen Markac did nothing...it's all innuendo and/or hyperbole (right?).
Good. Now they need to find Ceku and Thaci.
At least Serbia is free of Dhimmitude! LOL!
Ante Gotovina didn’t do anything wrong. Markac and Cermak personally didn’t do anything wrong, but they were responsible for what happened after Oluja finished. But both of them pale in comparison to Mladic, Gvero, Martic, etc who personally ordered massacres.
So is Croatia.
Dio: Is it really necessary that we juxtapose (i.e. compare and contrast) the aforementioned individuals mentioned above?
In other words, why can't we just 'take them one at a time' and look at what each individual (allegedly) did and subsequently base our judgments on that evidence?
Is that too difficult to do - or, perhaps, I'm asking too much?
Hey, I’m all for that....but when you have people like Joan spreading lies on FR, comparisons must then be introduced.
Sorry to break this to you, but civilized people think that murdering civilians, even when they are Serbian, is wrong.
So it comes as no surprise to us that you think the war criminals Gotovina, Korade, Markac, and Cermak did nothing wrong.
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