Milan Jevtic, Rajko Calmic, Ostoja Perisic and Dejan Milanovic were charged with committing crimes against humanity for their alleged involvement in capturing and killing 31 men and boys from Srebrenica in 1995.
Hana Vranac, January 13, 2025
Srebrenica. Photo: BIRN.
The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Monday that it has filed an indictment charging Milan Jevtic, Rajko Calmic, Ostoja Perisic and Dejan Milanovic with the capture and execution of a group of 31 Bosniak men and boys who were shot at Jasikovaca after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.
The four indictees allegedly committed the crime while serving as battalion commanders and members of the Milic Light Infantry Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army.
Perisic is also charged with the individual executions of survivors, and Jevtic and Milanovic with individually executing one prisoner each.
In July 1995, more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica were killed in a series of massacres by Bosnian Serb forces, and over 40,000 women, children and elderly people were expelled – a crime that was classified as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.
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