The Appellate Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the first-instance verdict in which seven former members of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) were sentenced to a total of 91 years in prison for participating in the kidnapping of twenty civilians from a train in Štrpci on February 27, 1993, who were killed in the Višegrad area. .
Luka Dragičević was acquitted of the charge that, as the commander of the Second Podrinje Brigade from Višegrad, he gave the order to take civilians away.
Obrad and Novak Poluga, Petko Inđić, Radojica Ristić, Dragan Šekarić, Oliver Krsmanović and Miodrag Mitrašinović were each sentenced to 13 years in prison by the first-instance verdict, because they participated as co-perpetrators in the murders of twenty civilians taken from a train traveling on the Belgrade-Bar line. Sarajevo media reported.
The verdict states that the accused, together with other members of the armed formation, drove a truck to the station in Štrpci, where some of them got on the train and, after identification, took out twenty passengers, among whom was the conductor of the train, who were taken by truck to school in Prelov, where the command of the First Battalion of the Second Podrinj Brigade was located.
They ordered the civilians to enter the school hall and take off their clothes, after which they beat them, tied their hands with wire and took them, covered in blood, in a truck to the demolished Rasim Polje house in Mušići, where they were shot dead.
Their bodies were then thrown into the Drina. Later, the remains of only four victims were found and identified in Lake Perućac.
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