Damir Ivankovic, known as Dado, Zoran ‘Bakin’ Babic, Gordan Djuric, Milorad Radakovic, known as Srbo, Milorad Skrbic, Ljubisa Cetic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic are charged with participation in crime against humanity.

The Prosecution charges the eight men, as former members of “the Public Safety Station in Prijedor and Emergency Intervention Police Squad from Prijedor”, with having participated, on August 21, 1992, in escorting a convoy of Bosniak and Croat civilians moving towards Travnik and shooting a group of 200 men at Koricanske stijene on Mount Vlasic.

The indictment alleges that Jankovic “ordered and organized” while the other indictees “participated and helped the escorting of the convoy”, consisting of more than 1,200 civilians in at least 16 buses, tractors, trucks and trailers.

“Acting on an earlier determined plan”, the indictees took valuables and money from these civilians.

After the convoy had stopped by the Ugar River on Mount Vlasic, Ivankovic, Babic, Cetic, Djuric, Radakovic, Skrbic and Stojnic, as well as other members of the Police Emergency Intervention Squad and police forces from Prijedor, “deliberately selected more than 200 adult men, knowing that they
would be killed”, and took them to a place called Koricanske stijene, where they killed them.

The indictment specifies that Jankovic was not present when the men were selected and shot. It also specifies that, at some point, Djuric was ordered to go towards Travnik “in order to stand guard”, which he did.

“They escorted the men to the roadside, by an abyss, and ordered them to kneel. Then they started shooting with automatic weapons at the men. The bodies of the dead began falling into the abyss. Some of them jumped down in order to try to save themselves from being killed,” the indictment alleges.

It further alleges that they selected smaller groups of men afterwards and shot them using revolvers and automatic rifles. Then they stood by the edge of the abyss, throwing hand-grenades and shooting at the dead and wounded, whose screams could be heard from the abyss.

Acting on a warrant issued by the State Prosecution, the State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested the eight indictees in the course of 2008.

Jankovic, Stojnic, Djuric, Radakovic, Cetic are in custody, while Ivankovic, Babic and Skrbic were released following their arrest.