The County Court of Herzegovina-Neretva with headquarters in Mostar ordered a one-month detention for a former member of the BiH Army who had been hiding in the United States for years on suspicion of having killed two captured Croats near Mostar during the war.
Eso Razic (57) was arrested upon entering Bosnia and Herzegovina because a warrant had been issued for him for conducting criminal proceedings.
He immigrated to the United States in 1998, where he reported that he was a prisoner of war during the war. In 2018, the American authorities initiated the procedure to revoke his citizenship because he lied about his past and his role in the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The County Court in Mostar, ordering Razić’s one-month custody, assessed that the detention of the suspect was completely justified because there is a risk of escape.
He is accused of killing two prisoners of war members of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in early October 1993 as a member of the Bosniak Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Kvanj Hill near Mostar.
Razić himself, originally from Čapljina, was a member of the HVO in the period from 1992 to mid-1993 until the outbreak of the Croat-Bosniak conflict. The County, Herzegovina-Neretva Prosecutor’s Office stated that in cooperation with the MUP of these counties, they are intensively continuing the investigation into this war crime case.