Yesterday, after nearly nine years, the Hague tribunal unsealed the indictment against Bralo, who is accused of violations of the laws and customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions committed during the Croat-Muslim conflict in central Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. The tribunal also unsealed a warrant for his arrest that was sent to both Zagreb and Sarajevo.
Mehun told Hina the warrant changed nothing for the Croatian Interior Ministry as Croatian police have been looking for Brale since 2003, based on orders of Zagreb's County Court, which led an investigation into the massacre committed in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici.
The indictment the Hague tribunal issued against Bralo in 1995 charges him with 21 counts on personal responsibility. He is accused of participating between April 21 and May 10, 1993 in the arrest and imprisonment of Muslim civilians, of forcing them to dig trenches, torturing and killing three captives and repeatedly raping a female one.
His name has been mentioned in a number of Hague cases, such as the trials of Zlatko Aleksovski, Tihomir Blaskic and Anto Furundzija, the former Dzokeri commander who served a 10-year jail term for, among other things, failing to prevent Bralo from raping the Muslim woman.