Six Former Military Police Members Arrested for War Crimes in the Pakrac Area
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – Six former members of the National Guard military police 76 battalion have been charged for committing war crimes in the killing of 16 Serb civilians near Pakrac in 1991.
A month ago Damir Kufner and Davor Simic, both commanders of the military police platoon responsible for the killing had been arrested, but the investigation had continued resulting in the arrests prior to Easter of Zeljko Tutic, Tomislav Poletto and Ante Ivezic and finally Pavle Vancas, today.
The materials used to indict the six have been handed to the State Attorney’s Office by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY) in the case led against Tomislav Mercep who had never been indicted by the ICTY.
Members of the platoon have been indicted for breaking into homes of Serbs in the Pakrac area, taking them to the gathering centre in the village of Ribnjak, torturing them and then liquidating them.
The bodies were thrown into a fishpond and would appear on the surface this witness by fishpond keepers.
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