Slobodan Davidovic, 52, was arrested in mid-June this year in Sidski Banovci near Vinkovci, eastern Croatia, after he was recognised on an amateur video recording of the execution of six Bosnian Muslim prisoners in Srebrenica in 1995, which was shown at the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. The crime was committed by the special purposes unit "Skorpioni" (Scorpions), of which he was a member.
The first count of the indictment charges that Davidovic, along with other unidentified members of the Scorpions, killed six young Bosnian men, including two teenagers, by shooting them in the back. The murders took place in the village of Trnovo near Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, in July 1995.
The second count of the indictment charges him with the mental and physical torture of Croatian soldiers in the village of Bobota near Vinkovci in October 1991.
The trial is set to start on 12 December with a hearing of witnesses.