Trial against Zdravko Pejić, charged with a war crime against civilians referred to in Article 120, paragraph 1 of the OKZRH. 

INDICTMENT (SUMMARY)

The defendant is charged that in his capacity as member of the so-called Plaški Territorial Defence, after the attack on Saborsko and surrounding hamlets and their occupation by Serb formations, during the search house to house in the hamlet of Šolaje on 12 November 1991, on the occasion when four civilians were forced out of the basement from one of the searched houses, he separated husband and wife Nikola and Kata Dumančić, both of Croatian ethnicity, and shot them dead by automatic rifle in the yard of that house.

The Karlovac ŽDO Indicment No. K-DO-4/03 of 22 December 2011 is available in Croatian here.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Rijeka County Court

Case file no.:

War Crimes Council (judges' panel):  judge Ika Šarić, Council President, judges Zoran Sršen and Srebrenka Šantić, Council Members

Indictment: no. K-DO-4/02 of 22 December 2011 issued by the Karlovac ŽDO

Criminal offence: war crime against civilians referred to in Article 120, paragraph 1 of the OKZRH

Prosecution: Nenad Bogosavljev, Rijeka County Deputy State’s Attorney

Defendant: Zdravko Pejić, unavailable

Defence Counsel: Ružica Spasojević, court appointed attorney 

Victims-killed: Nikola and Kata Dumančić

Zločin u Saborskom - Izvještaji s glavne rasprave

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