UDIK Udruženje za društvena istraživanja i komunikacije
The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) presents the publication War Crimes in the Viktor Bubanj Barracks in Sarajevo as the sixteenth book from the edition War Crimes – Transcripts ofJudgments of Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2011, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against three persons: Besim Muderizović, Ramiz Avdović and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, for war crimes against Serbian civilians in the former Viktor Bubanjmilitary barracks in Sarajevo.In the indictment confirmed by the State Court in December 2011, it was stated that the accused Besim Muderizović, Ramiz Avdović and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, in the period between June and late November 1992, participated in the establishing and maintaining of an abuse system of Serb civilians in the Viktor Bubanj army barracks in Sarajevo. According to the charges, Muderizović was the deputy warden of the District Prison in Sarajevo and the commander of the military prison in the former Viktor Bubanj barracks; Avdović was the commander of guards of the District Prison in Sarajevo and former Viktor Bubanj military barracks, while Vintila was a cook and guard in the former barracks.
The trial began at the end of March 2012, but in December the State Court issued a decision suspending the criminal proceedings against the accused Besim Muderizović due to the death of the accused. Thus, the case of Besim Muderizović and others in the continuation of the trial was conducted under the designation Ramiz Avdović and others.In February 2016, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina found Avdović and Vintila guilty of war crimes against civilians, with Avdović being sentenced to three years in prison and Vintila to two years in prison.
The aim of this book is to document the court-established facts about war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 1992 to 1995. Because only through court facts and relevant information can we achieve a true confrontation with the past, build lasting peace and a better future in our country.
