Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Marinko Marić
Court |
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Section I for War Crimes, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Case number |
KT-RZ 90/05 |
Decision title |
Indictment |
Decision date |
22 December 2006 |
Parties |
- Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Marinko Marić
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Categories |
War crimes |
Keywords |
War crimes; civilians; former Yugoslavia; illegal detention; murder |
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back to topProcedural history
Marić was indicted on 22 December 2006, and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) confirmed the indictment four days later, on 26December 2006. Marić is yet at large; hence, no proceedings against him could have taken place.
back to topLegally relevant facts
The indictment against Marić alleged that he, in the second half of 1993, in the Gabela detention camp in the Čapljina municipality (BiH), both as member of the “Knez Domagoj” Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) and as interrogator for the Brigade’s Security and Intelligence Service (SIS), gravely violated the laws of war as enshrined in the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva Convention IV). The indictment claimed that Marić, inter alia, following the interrogation of two prisoners on 10 August 1993 in the Gabela detention camp, ordered that one of the prisoners, who was lying in a pool of blood, unconscious and with a cracked skull, had to be taken out in front of the building and that water from plastic jugs had to be poured down his throat, after which the prisoner died. The indictment furthermore alleged that he, on 30 September 1993, together with Nikola Andrun and another person, took part in the beating and torturing of a prisoner. For these crimes, he was charged with war crimes against civilians under Article 173(1) of the BiH Criminal Code (CC BiH) in conjunction with subparagraphs c (killings, intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon a person (torture), inhuman treatment) and e (unlawful bringing in concentration camps and other illegal arrests and detention).
back to topCore legal questions
Can Marić be found criminally responsible for individually and jointly committed war crimes against civilians, as alleged by the indictment?
back to topSpecific legal rules and provisions
Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003:
Article 29 - Accomplices
Article 173(1)(c) and (e) - War Crimes against Civilians
Article 180 - Individual Criminal Responsibility.
back to topInstruments cited
Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003.
back to topRelated cases
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Nikola Andrun, Case No. X-KRŽ-05/42, Verdict, 19 August 2008.
back to topAdditional materials
‘Marić Marinko - Case Information’, Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
‘Indictment confirmed in the Marinko Marić case ’, Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 28 December 2006.