MOSTAR, Jan 5 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat suspected of war crimes was released on Friday from several months in custody because he was severely wounded at the time the indictment charged him with crimes over Bosniak prisoners. Zoran
Soldo is a member of the so-called Mostar Five group, military police officers of Bosnia's Croat Defence Council (HVO) the cantonal court in the southern Bosnian town is prosecuting for war crimes and the breach of international conventions, the death of 25 Bosniak civilians, and the beating and mistreatment of prisoners in 1993. A panel of judges confirmed the validity of medical documentation on a severe wounding Soldo suffered on 10 May 1993 and his treatment in the southern Adriatic port of Split. The indictment charged him with the torture and killing of Bosniak civilians in July 1993. Soldo was wounded during the Croat-Muslim conflict in an attack by Bosniak units. It left him a 100 percent i
MOSTAR, Jan 5 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat suspected of war crimes was
released on Friday from several months in custody because he was
severely wounded at the time the indictment charged him with crimes
over Bosniak prisoners.
Zoran Soldo is a member of the so-called Mostar Five group, military
police officers of Bosnia's Croat Defence Council (HVO) the
cantonal court in the southern Bosnian town is prosecuting for war
crimes and the breach of international conventions, the death of 25
Bosniak civilians, and the beating and mistreatment of prisoners in
1993.
A panel of judges confirmed the validity of medical documentation
on a severe wounding Soldo suffered on 10 May 1993 and his treatment
in the southern Adriatic port of Split. The indictment charged him
with the torture and killing of Bosniak civilians in July 1993.
Soldo was wounded during the Croat-Muslim conflict in an attack by
Bosniak units. It left him a 100 percent invalid.
The trial of Zeljko Dzidic and Erhard Poznic continued today. Ivan
Skutor and Mate Anicic are still in hiding. Thus far, the defence
has been unable to connect the suspects with the crimes imputed to
them.
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