Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Novica Tripkovic denied raping two Bosniak women who were captured and illegally detained in the Foca area in 1992.
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The town of Foca. Photo: BIRN.
“I am not guilty,” Novica Tripkovic told the Bosnian state court on Thursday, denying that he forced two female Bosniak captives to have sex with him between August 2 and 9, 1992 in the Foca municipality.
Tripkovic is charged with committing the crime while he was a Bosnian Serb Army soldier, as part of a widespread and systematic attack by Bosnian Serb military, paramilitary and police forces on the Bosniak civilian population in Foca.
The indictment alleges that on August 3, 1992, he raped one of the women in a house in Foca where she was being illegally imprisoned.
It further alleges that on an unspecified date between August 2 and 9, 1992, he took another woman out of a house in which she was being illegally detained, brought her to the barracks where he was living and raped her.
Tripkovic has previously been convicted of wartime crimes in two other cases.
In June 2011, the Bosnian state court sentenced him to eight years in prison for crimes against humanity in the Foca area in 1992.
He was then sentenced in February 2017 to eight years in prison for crimes in the Kalinovik area in 1992. The court ruled that the two sentences should run concurrently.
The start date for his new trial will be scheduled within 30 to 60 days.
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