Indictment Confirmed in the Case of Muhamed Ibrahimović

10.01.2025, 09:43

On 8 January 2025, the Court confirmed an indictment in the case of Muhamed Ibrahimović (S1 1 K 050694 24 Kro) charging the accused Muhamed Ibrahimović that, by the acts comprehensively described in the indictment, he committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 173(1) c) of the CC BiH, as  read with Article 180(1) of the CC BiH and Article 29 of the CC BiH, and in relation to certain counts of the indictment, also as read with Article 180(2) of the CC BiH.

The accused is, inter alia, charged that, during an armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Croat Defense Council (HVO) and the Army of the Serb Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), in the territory of Livno municipality, on the premises of the u „Ivan Goran Kovačić” Primary School that was used as a camp for unlawfully detained Serb civilians, in which the HVO Livno Military Police was also seated, as a chief of the VP HVO Livno Crime Service, the chief of crime service, the chief of the Livno Police Military operations, and the commander of the security service of the 11th Military Police Battalion of the HVO Livno, during August 1992, along with other members of the Crime Service of the HVO Livno Military Police subordinated to him, he acted in contravention of the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War of 12 August 1949 and Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 relative to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, in as much as he repeatedly participated in the unlawful detention of the Serb civilian population, inhuman treatment, intentional causing bodily pain (beating,) mental anguish or suffering (torture), injury to bodily integrity and health by way of ordering, committing, instigating and aiding and abetting as a result of which detained civilians suffered severe physical and mental pain and suffering.

 

The indictment further alleged that the accused, in his capacity of a superior officer, omitted to take any necessary and reasonable measures to prevent or punish his subordinates for the referenced acts committed against detained Serb civilians, despite the fact that he knew or had reason to know about those acts.