Bosnian Muslim in Vermont Accused of War Crimes against Serb Christians

More of the poison fruit of Clinton's misadventure in Bosnia. How many other jihadists did we import under the infamous Refugee Resettlement program? "Vermont has a sizable Bosnian community. Between 1993 and 2004, 1,705 Bosnians were resettled in the state, although it's unclear how many remain today."

"Bosnian in Vt. Accused of Lying About War Crimes" By Dave Gram, Associated Press, July 26, 2013 (thanks to Lookmann)

A Bosnian immigrant accused of lying to U.S. immigration authorities by denying involvement in war crimes during the conflict in Bosnia two decades ago pleaded not guilty on Friday.

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Prosecutors allege Edin Sakoc, who has been living in Burlington, the state's largest city, was involved in war crimes against a civilian Bosnian Serb family in 1992. An indictment says he raped a Serb woman and aided in the killing of the two elderly people she was caring for and the burning of the house they were staying in.

Sakoc, 54, appeared briefly Friday in U.S. District Court, where he was ordered to surrender his passport because he was deemed a flight risk.

Judge Christina Reiss asked Sakoc whether he had reviewed the case with his attorney. Through an interpreter, he said yes but "we did not talk about everything."

Sakoc was jailed for the weekend, but defense lawyer Robert Behrens said he expected he'd be released on Monday.

Authorities said Sakoc lied when he applied for refugee status and later for permanent residency and then citizenship in the United States by denying any past crimes of persecution.

Sakoc is a Bosnian Muslim. He moved to Vermont in 2001, became a legal resident of the United States in 2004 and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in June 2007. The Burlington Free Press reported Sakoc has a wife and a 6-year-old daughter.

The people Sakoc is accused of victimizing were Orthodox Christian Bosnian Serbs.

The Bosnian Serb family had moved from a home in the southern Bosnian municipality of Capljina to the home of a Bosnian Croat family nearby, the indictment said. Most Bosnian Serbs in the village had fled to safer areas, but a woman remained to care for two people who were too old to travel far, it said.

On or around July 9, 1992, Sakoc and an unnamed co-conspirator went to the home where the victims were staying, took the woman from the home, raped her and took her to the Dretelj prison camp, the indictment said.

Later that night or early the next day, Sakoc and the co-conspirator returned to the home, the indictment said. With help from Sakoc, the co-conspirator fatally shot the two elderly people, burned the home down and separately burned the victims' bodies, it said.

The two-count indictment did not include charges directly tied to those events but charged that Sakoc had lied to immigration authorities three times when asked if he had participated in crimes of persecution and moral turpitude: when he applied for refugee status in the U.S. in 2001, when he applied for permanent legal residency in 2004 and when he applied for citizenship in 2007.

Vermont has a sizable Bosnian community. Between 1993 and 2004, 1,705 Bosnians were resettled in the state, although it's unclear how many remain today.

Members of the community were unaware Friday of the charge against Sakoc.

The indictment was based on a probe by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, assisted by the federal Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center and the FBI.

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Mike_W

10 years ago

Why haven’t Bill and Hillory Clinton been tried for war crimes against the Serb Christians?

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Bezelel

10 years ago

Slick Willy? Tried for anything? Not even for trying to steal furniture from the White House.

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KLKL

10 years ago

“infamous” indeed. why do we let tens of thousands of Muslims come in a month, without examining weather or not they support Jihad, and yet Sweden sends Iranian and Iraqi Christians who risk persecution or death back to Iran. the LAMEstreamMedia will not discuss “jihad” leats it offend Muslim “civil rights” groups. what a shame.

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Sick of taqiyya

10 years ago

That whole NATO intervention was a farce. The Serbs were the real victims, not all are or were saints but they had to fight back and who blames them? But as usual the muslims with their deception were believed.
Milosevich was murdered and he warned he would be, just before he called up important witnesses. !!!
iI read a book in which his dutch lawyer shared how ridiculous the sham trial was. One example: A Bosnian Muslim came in with a t-shirt full of bullet holes claiming it was his after he was shot by Serbs and asked by the defence to then prove this with showing scars on his chest . he had none and claimed ” allah healed me” And no, he was not laughed at except by Milosevich and his defence because the prosecutor Carla Ponti was determined to get Milosevich by hook or by crook.
The fact his trial took over 5 years got me interested , why so long if cut and dried ? I researched after his ” suicide”
Enfin :
These are the sort of idiots we are faced with,

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Branko

10 years ago

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnia-islamic-community-condemns-critics-to-short-clothes

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