Bosnian Court issues warrant for war crimes defendant

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Bosnia’s State Court said it has in July issued an arrest warrant for Dragomir Kezunovic, who was convicted on war crimes charges in a first instance ruling that month.

The warrant was issued on July 20, the court told the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).

Just eight days earlier, the court sentenced Kezunovic along with four other former Bosnian Serb military policemen to a total of 82 years in prison for killing 28 Bosniak civilians on Mount Borje near the northern town of Teslic in 1992. Kezunovic was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the first instance ruling.

‘Defendant Dragomir Kezunovic lives in Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia. The Prosecutors’ Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has during the criminal proceedings not requested restrictive measures or pre-trial detention for Kezunovic as he regularly came to the hearings,’ the Court said earlier this year.

Kezunovic, however, did not attend his sentencing.