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| |  | | Nedjo Samardzic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Bosnia Herzegovina | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 13 years imprisonment by the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 7 April 2006 for crimes against humanity; sentence increased to 24 years by the Appeals Panel on 13 December 2006 | | position : | Member of the army of the Republika Srpska |
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| | | | Nedjo Samardzic was born on 7 April 1968 in Bileca, municipality of the same name, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Married and father of two children, he was a tradesman.
According to the Indictment, Nedjo Samardzic participated in the widespread and systematic attacks launched by the Serbian forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Bosnian civilians in the municipality of Foca, between April 1992 and the end of March 1993. He committed and helped commit killings, forced relocations of persons, sex slavery, rape and other persecutions.
In June 1992, together with a group of soldiers in the place of Stovic (Foca municipality), the accused forced a woman out of her house and took her to a Miljevina hotel, where she was repeatedly raped and beaten over a period of 7 days.
In Foca, soldiers ran several detention facilities as brothels. The Indictment states that between June and August 1992, Nedjo Samardzic, together with Radovan Stankovic (see "related cases") and Brcic Nikola, detained and raped a number of women of Bosnian ethnicity, in a camp called ‘Karaman’s house’ in Miljevina. Apart from the sexual assaults and the degrading and insalubrious conditions, the women were used as forced labour.
It is further alleged that the accused is responsible for sex slavery and repeated rapes of numerous other Bosnian women and underage girls in various places. A 12 year-old girl was notably subjected to repeated rapes in a brothel in Miljevina. Between June and December 1992, several female patients were forcibly removed from Foca Hospital and raped by the accused and other soldiers, allegedly including Radovan Stankovic and Dragomir Kunarac (see `related cases`).
Nedjo Samardzic was also tried for the beating of a group of Bosnian civilians that had been captured in the region of Miljevina in August 1992, together with his brother Zoran and other soldiers. The civilians were then taken to Sljivovice, where they were shot.
The Indictment further alleges that, in Miljevina and Rataje, Bosnian civilians from Foca municipality were searched and mistreated. They were then taken to the police station in Miljevina wherefrom they disappeared without a trace.
In September 1992, it is alleged that Nedjo Samardzic, together with other members of the Serbian forces, transported a number of Miljevina inhabitants to the Partizan Sports Hall in Foca. The civilians, mainly women and children, were severely mistreated and robbed. Many women were then taken to apartments where they were raped, then forcibly transferred to Gorazde municipality.
Nedjo Samardzic was arrested on 19 October 2004. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 07.04.1968 | | | period of charges : | | | 04.1992 - 03.1993 | | | judgement period : | | | 06.03.2006 - 13.12.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity | | | profile last modified : | | | 08.09.2008 |
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