ZAGREB, Dec 15 (Hina) - The Zagreb County State Attorney's Office +pressed charges against Dinko Ljubomir Sakic for crimes against +humanity and the international law, i.e. war crimes against +civilians.+ The charges against Sakic,
former commander of a Croatian World War +Two concentration camp, were pressed on Monday, December 14. The +indictment was delivered to the County Court on Tuesday.+ The indictment charges Sakic with the death of 2,000 persons +between April and November 1944, during which time he commanded the +Jasenovac camp.+ The indictment states that between 1941 and 1945, several dozen +thousands civilians, mainly Jews, Romany, Serbs, and Croats were +abused, tortured, and executed in the name of Nazi and racist laws +in the Jasenovac concentration camp, on the territory of then +current Independent State of Croatia.+ During the time he commanded the camp, Sakic is
ZAGREB, Dec 15 (Hina) - The Zagreb County State Attorney's Office
pressed charges against Dinko Ljubomir Sakic for crimes against
humanity and the international law, i.e. war crimes against
civilians.
The charges against Sakic, former commander of a Croatian World War
Two concentration camp, were pressed on Monday, December 14. The
indictment was delivered to the County Court on Tuesday.
The indictment charges Sakic with the death of 2,000 persons
between April and November 1944, during which time he commanded the
Jasenovac camp.
The indictment states that between 1941 and 1945, several dozen
thousands civilians, mainly Jews, Romany, Serbs, and Croats were
abused, tortured, and executed in the name of Nazi and racist laws
in the Jasenovac concentration camp, on the territory of then
current Independent State of Croatia.
During the time he commanded the camp, Sakic is said to have
personally, or by allowing his subordinates to do so, abused,
tortured, and killed camp prisoners, causing the death of more than
2,000 persons.
The indictment further states that 4,900 persons are estimated to
have been executed in the Jasenovac camp in 1944, while the total
figure is estimated at some 49,000 during the entire time the camp
was active between 1941 and 1945.
The Zagreb County State Attorney's Office filed the charges against
Sakic following an extensive five-month pre-trial investigation
headed by Judge Zdenko Konjic. Forty-six witnesses were
questioned, and statements were also given by scientists and
experts who have dealt with the Jasenovac camp issue.
Prior to and during the pre-trial investigation, the County State
Attorney's Office perused documents from the Croatian State
Archives, the Croatian Historical Museum, the Zagreb Jewish
Municipality, the National and University Library in Zagreb, the
Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the United States government, and
Yugoslav judicial bodies.
The indictment suggests the defendant be retained in custody until
the end of the main trial. It was signed by Zagreb County State
Attorney Radovan Santek, who composed it in association with his
deputy Janko Grlic.
Dinko Sakic had lived in Argentina for the 50 years prior to his June
extradition to Croatia. He was arrested after he admitted to
commanding the Jasenovac camp in an interview to an Argentinean TV
station in April this year. He has been detained in a Zagreb prison
since the extradition.
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