SISAK, April 4 (Hina) - Sisak-Moslavina police brought Nebojsa Jelic alias Neso (aged 40) in the county court in Sisak (some 60 kilometres south-east of Zagreb) at about 11.00 am Tuesday, because he is suspected of having committed
war crimes against prisoners of war in the end of June 1991 in the Knin and Glina areas, local police reported on Tuesday. A few days ago this Croatian Serb returned from Yugoslavia to Croatia. He offered no resistance during the arrest and said it was better for him to be in a Croatian prison than in Serbia, the police said. Anti-terrororist units of the police carried out an investigation against Jelic. They established that Jelic, who was a member of the so-called "milicija" of Croatian Serb rebel authorities, physically and mentally abused and harassed 16 Croatian policemen and one civilian, whom Serb paramilitaries caught during the 26 June 1991 attack ag
SISAK, April 4 (Hina) - Sisak-Moslavina police brought Nebojsa
Jelic alias Neso (aged 40) in the county court in Sisak (some 60
kilometres south-east of Zagreb) at about 11.00 am Tuesday, because
he is suspected of having committed war crimes against prisoners of
war in the end of June 1991 in the Knin and Glina areas, local police
reported on Tuesday.
A few days ago this Croatian Serb returned from Yugoslavia to
Croatia. He offered no resistance during the arrest and said it was
better for him to be in a Croatian prison than in Serbia, the police
said.
Anti-terrororist units of the police carried out an investigation
against Jelic. They established that Jelic, who was a member of the
so-called "milicija" of Croatian Serb rebel authorities,
physically and mentally abused and harassed 16 Croatian policemen
and one civilian, whom Serb paramilitaries caught during the 26
June 1991 attack against the police station in the town of Glina.
According to findings of the investigation, Jelic committed these
crimes on several spots in the end of June 1991.
He confessed to the committed crimes, the police added.
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