The trial of war crime suspect, Radomir Susnjar, charged with murders of Bosniak civilians in the eastern town of Visegrad in 1992, has resumed on Friday with the main hearing before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the indictment, Susnjar took part in a war crime in Visegrad, when 57 Bosniak civilians were forcibly locked and burned in a house.
Earlier this year Susnjar was extradited from France, following the indictment that the Bosnia's state court issued in 2017, accusing the suspect of breaching the Geneva Convention on Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War during the 1992-95 armed conflict in Bosnia.
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The indictment charges him along with other members of the Bosnian Serbs army and paramilitary units with illegal capturing, robbing and closing of Bosniak civilians from Koritnik village in a house in Visegrad's Pionirska Street, after which the house was burnt down while the open fire on the house prevented the civilians from leaving it.
“Under the excuse that their safety was jeopardised, and with intention to take their (civilian's) lives, they ordered them (civilians) to leave their private homes and go to another private home where they were forced to enter a room on the ground floor, when Radomir Susnjar pushed the last civilian from the line inside and locked the door, preventing the civilians from escaping the house, after which Milan Lukic threw in an explosive device and Radomir Susnjar threw a hand grenade in it…,” the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina said.
During the plea hearing held in July this year, Radomir Susnjar pleaded not guilty.
