Trial Judgment to be pronounced in Miroslav Marković case

06.10.2023, 11:31

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will pronounce a Trial Judgment in the Miroslav Marković case on Monday, 9 October 2023, at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 6.

A confirmed Indictment issued by the BiH Prosecutor's Office charges the accused Miroslav Marković with the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

According to the Indictment, the accused and other members of the Lokanjska Company of the Zvornik Brigade, MP 7469, of the Army of Republika Srpska, together with multiple members of the Ugljevik Public Security Station, from early April until at least late October 1992, in the framework of a widespread and systematic attack by the military and police of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently Republika Srpska, targeting the civilian population in a broader territory of the Lokanj village, Municipality of Zvornik, and the surrounding municipalities, as a member of the Lokanjska Company, knowing of the attack and that his actions formed a part of the attack targeting the Bosniak civilian population on national, ethnic and religious grounds, as an accomplice in the persecution of the Bosniak civilian population, together with other accomplices, committed murder, incarceration, torture and other acts of a similar nature with the intention to inflict great pain or serious physical or mental injury or deterioration of health.