Bosnian Muslim now Virginia Resident arrested for war crimes on Serbian Christians

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Further proof that the narrative advanced by Muslims in Bosnia is more myth than truth.

US resident Almaz Nezirovic is a Muslim Bosnian prison camp guard. He is accused of torturing and beating civilian Serbian prisoners during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

But before he came to the Roanoke Valley in 1997, Nezirovic was a member of the Croatian Defense Council military force, federal prosecutors say. He worked at the Rabic prison camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where in 1992 he "willfully caused great suffering and serious injury" to Serb prisoners, according to an indictment in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville.

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"Roanoke Co. resident faces extradition on war crimes allegations" Roanoke.com, July 18, 2012, (thanks to LF)

A former Bosnian prison camp guard now living in Roanoke County was led in handcuffs to a federal courtroom Tuesday, where he was told he faces extradition to his native country on charges of committing war crimes.

Almaz Nezirovic was ordered held without bond during a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in Roanoke.

Court papers unsealed late in the day accuse Nezirovic of torturing Serbian civilians who were sent to a prison camp during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, now known as Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The prisoners were beaten with rifles and batons, starved, ordered to crawl naked on the ground and forced to eat grass soaked with urine, a seven-page complaint charges.

"In these and other ways, the Fugitive participated in torturing and inflicting cruel, inhumane and humiliating treatment on multiple prisoners at the Rabic camp," the complaint states.

Nezirovic — who had been living quietly as a welder and soccer coach in Roanoke County since immigrating to the United States about 15 years ago — appeared stunned and defiant during his hearing.

"I was very surprised," he told Magistrate Judge Robert Ballou in broken English.

Why was he surprised? Because they West bought the Muslim narrative hook, line and sinker? Or was he surprised because he thought infidels should be treated worse than animals?

Wearing a yellow T-shirt and shorts, his long, dark hair tied back in a ponytail, he turned several times to make eye contact with about a dozen family members and friends sitting in the courtroom.

"We love you," a woman called out as he was led away.

Although the charges against him were filed in 2003 by authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nezirovic had more recently been facing separate but related federal charges in Roanoke.

In June 2011, he was charged with lying on an application for U.S. citizenship and making a false statement during a naturalization interview.

Federal prosecutors said at the time that Nezirovic, 53, indicated on the applications that he had never committed acts for which he could be charged criminally — such as the alleged abuse of prisoners at the war camp.

After his indictment, Nezirovic was allowed to remain free on bond. He had been living in his Roanoke County home without incident until his arrest Tuesday morning on an extradition warrant.

Since the federal charges were filed last year in Roanoke, authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have decided to prosecute Nezirovic on charges that he committed war crimes in the early 1990s and asked that he be extradited.

That decision apparently takes precedence over the pending federal case in Roanoke, which was set for trial in September.

U.S. Attorney Timothy Heaphy said his office will present additional evidence supporting the charges to Ballou within 60 days. The judge will then decide whether Nezirovic should be extradited.

In 2004, one year after Nezirovic was charged by the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina with war crimes, U.S. officials refused to extradite him, according to his attorney, public defender Fay Spence.

The more recent extradition efforts apparently came after the Bosnia-Herzegovina government presented additional information to the U.S. State Department.

Nezirovic denies the charges, Spence has written in court documents.

The allegations against Nezirovic are politically motivated and stem from lingering tensions between ethnic and religious groups in the war-torn country, Spence maintains.

During his country's civil war in the 1990s, Nezirovic was a member of the Croatian Defense Council military force and worked in the Rabic prison camp that held Serb civilians.

As a Bozniak Muslim, Nezirovic wanted no part of the three-way fighting among Serbs, Croatians and Muslims, Spence has written in court documents. But when his homeland of Derventa was invaded by Serb nationalists, Nezirovic said he joined a Croatian paramilitary group as an act of self-defense.

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Matthew
Matthew
11 years ago

Sebrenica was not a myth you nutjob.

Jackson Pearson
Jackson Pearson
11 years ago

Clinton had no business whatsoever to involve NATO in the Balkans…NONE. He unilaterally did the bombing without Congressional approval, or the 1977 War Powers Act. The same with Kosovo. People are unfamiliar with history, the Ottoman Wars, and why there are Muslims in the Balkans. Plus the UN have no authority to partition a sovereign country like Serbia. If a precedent is set there, than why not the American Southwest back to Mexico, or Dearbornistan, Michigan etc, into an Islamic state!

Skanderbeg
Skanderbeg
11 years ago

Why are Bosnians still Muslim? Islam was forced on the Bosnians by the Ottoman Turks in the 16 century. The Turks were chased out over a hundred years ago, yet Bosnian Muslims retain the barbaric ideology of the Asiatic people that oppressed their ancestors! Why?

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
11 years ago

It’s about time. Whether or not our corrupt government will extradite one of their favored groups (muslo-nazis) to face justice will be interesting to see.

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