Muslim militant who raped pregnant Serbian woman extradited from US to BiH
A fanatic from the so-called BiH Army, Adem Kostjerevec, who brutally mocked his captured neighbor, was sentenced by a court in the American St. Louis to extradition to his historical homeland.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
St. Louis Judge Patricia Cohen has ordered the extradition of Bosniak Adem Kostjerevec to Bosnian justice. The 58-year-old former rapist and militant has lived in the United States for the last seventeen years with his wife and five adult children. At one time, America granted Bosniaks citizenship under a simplified scheme, as “victims of genocide.”
The episode with Kostjerevec's crime surfaced after his victim, a Serbian woman, testified as a witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. After which the Bosnian prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against him in 2015, and in 2017 made a request for his extradition to the United States.
According to the case file, the crime occurred in 1992, when Muslim military forces took the village where his Serbian victim lived, who was Kostjerevec's neighbor and the wife of his classmate. Moreover, at that time she was pregnant. Militants of the so-called “military police” captured her, placed her in a basement, where they abused her and raped her repeatedly. As a result, the woman had a miscarriage, and when she was exchanged in 1993, she weighed only 36 kilograms.
Kostjerevets himself, during an FBI interrogation, claimed that he did not rape his neighbor, but on the contrary, when his associates demanded to deal with her, he brought the victim food. He was arrested by American law enforcement officers only on August 23 last year.
As the experience of past similar trials shows, an ordinary militant of the BiH Army can be convicted, but for a relatively short period of time - from three to five years. While commanders of Muslim paramilitary forces such as Naser Oric or Ahmet SejdicThose responsible for massacres, including Serb civilians, usually get away with it.
Militants of the BiH Army pose against the backdrop of a burned Orthodox church.
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