Former Prison Guard Accused Of War Crimes

S.P. has been charged with abusing captured Croatian soldiers and policemen in a prison in Knin, from June 1991 to February 1992.

The County State Attorney in Sibenik accused 36 year old S.P, a citizen of Croatia and Serbia, for war crimes against prisoners of war and civilian population, reported the official website of the State Attorney.

The accused S.P. worked in Knin from June 1991 to February 1992 as a guard in a prison of the self-declared “Republic of Serbian Krajina”, which was located in an old hospital.

He has been accused of physically and psychologically abusing the captured Croatian soldiers and police officers, and that he treated them inhumanely, inflicting great suffering and bodily injury. Those procedures, it says in the indictment, violated the Geneva Convention for his treatment of the prisoners of war.

Besides that, he is accused of torturing and inhumanely treating civilians and members of the so called “Marticeva Milicija” held in the old hospital, and the consequences of that torture was that one civilian died.

The accused S.P. was arrested earlier and put in prison, and after the indictment was filed, the County Court in Sibenik prolonged his detention.