The Court of BiH confirmed today its indictment of Sakib Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, for involvement in war crimes against Serb civilians in 1995. Specifically, Mahmuljin is accused of allowing foreign fighters under his command–the so-called Mujahideen units–to torture and kill prisoners.
The indictment alleges that Mahmuljin failed to take any action in order to prevent the crimes, although he had been informed that members of the unit were getting ready to commit the crime, and failed to do anything in order to punish the crime perpetrators.
According to the charges, members of the Mujahideen unit abused and tortured the captives, cut their ears off, stabbed them all over their bodies, tied them up and beat them with various objects.
They kept the captives tied up in fetus-like positions for several hours with ropes around their necks, the prosecution alleges.
Leaders of the SDA, the largest Bosniak-majority political party, have publicly proclaimed Mahmuljin’s innocence ahead of his trial.
