Miodrag Mitrasinovic, a former member of the Republika Srpska Army, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, escaped from the hospital where he was treated in the city of Foca.
AMONG THE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING OF 20 PEOPLE BY TORTURE
In the statement made by the Research and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SIPA), Mitrasinovic, one of the 7 defendants sentenced to 13 years in prison on October 21, for the torture and murder of 20 people who were kidnapped from the train station in the town of Štrpci on February 27, 1993, during the war in the country, received medical treatment. It is stated that he escaped from the hospital in Foca, where he was to see.
SIPA spokesperson Jelena Miovcic told N1 Channel, “Mitrasinovic disappeared in a hospital where he was being treated in Foca. All security teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been informed about Mitrasinovic’s escape. He will be arrested on sight.” he said.
13 YEARS IN PRISON FOR 7 FORMER SERBIC SOLDIERS WHO KILLED CIVILIZERS BY TORTURE IN THE BOSNIA WAR
7 defendants, including Miodrag Mitrasinovic, former members of the Republika Srpska Army, on the grounds that they “committed war crimes” on the grounds of “committed war crimes”, were sentenced to death on October 21, 13. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.
The trial of the suspects, who were held responsible for the deaths of 20 victims, 18 of whom were Bosnian, who were tortured after being taken off the train numbered “671” on the Belgrade-Bar line, and were shot in the village of Musici and their corpses were thrown into the Drina River, was decided by the local court.
“STRPCI MASSACRE”
Members of the Republika Srpska Army “Avengers” (Osvetnici) military formation operating as part of Visegrad at that time, from the train number “671” on the Belgrade-Bar line, on February 27, 1993, at the Štrpci Station in Rudo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Lukic Under his command, he took 20 passengers, mostly Bosnian, to the village of Prelovo (Visegrad) and tortured them to death.
Milan Lukic, the commander of the “Avengers” unit, who was tried in 2009 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for committing crimes against humanity against the Bosniak people in Visegrad city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992-1994, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Nebojsa Ranisavljevic, known as “Resavac” and “The Grasshopper”, the commander of the volunteer detachment of the Visegrad Brigade Response Squadron, was sentenced to 15 years and Mico Jovicic, a member of the Visegrad Brigade, to 5 years.
Ranisavljevic, who was tried in Montenegro for the crime committed in Štrpci on February 27, 1993 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, said at the hearing that the massacre was planned a month in advance, Serbia’s state institutions were also aware of the incident, yet no Serbian institution took responsibility. (AA)