A court in Belgrade is to try Visnja Acimovic, a Bosnian Serb wartime fighter accused of involvement in the shooting of 37 Bosniak prisoners in Bosnia's Vlasenica municipality in 1992.
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Interpol ‘red notice’ appeal for the arrest of Visnja Acimovic. Source: Interpol.
Belgrade Higher Court will hold a preliminary hearing on November 16 in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Visnja Acimovic, who has been charged with committing war crimes against civilians in the Vlasenica area.
Acimovic was initially charged by the Bosnian authorities with having knowingly and willingly participated, in collaboration with several Bosnian Serb Army soldiers, in the killing of 37 Bosniak men at Mracni Dol near the Susica detention camp in the municipality of Vlasenica.
According to the Bosnian indictment, Acimovic participated in the murder of the men who had been brought by bus from a prison located behind the court building in Vlasenica.
“The defendant is charged with having shot the victims with firearms while they were standing just a few metres away from the bus,” the Bosnian state prosecution said when the charges were announced in 2017.
The victims’ bodies were only discovered at the Mracni Dol site in 2000.
Acimovic has citizenship of both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, where she currently lives.
The Bosnian authorities asked Interpol to issue a ‘red notice’ calling for her arrest, and then asked the Serbian Justice Ministry to take over the case on the basis of a protocol on cooperation in war crimes prosecutions agreed between the two neighbour states.
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