The Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) granted the appeals filed by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and the Defense Counsel for the Accused Nikola Andrun and revoked the first-instance Verdict by which the Accused Andrun was found guilty of the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians and sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment, and on 19 August 2008 delivered the second-instance Verdict by which the Accused Nikola Andrun was found guilty of the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians and sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment.

In the operative part of the Verdict, the Appellate Panel stated that Nikola Andrun, as the Deputy Camp Commander, during the period from June to September 1993, in the Gabela Camp, together with SIS investigators and Camp guards, participated in killings, tortured and participated in the torture of the detained civilians and subjected them to inhumane treatment.

The Court, inter alia, established that the Accused, together with another person, in late September or early October 1993, took out a detainee from the Gabela Camp and took him to the Police Station in Čapljina, where he himself participated in his mental and physical abuse. It was further established that the Accused Nikola Andrun, on an unspecified date in September 1993, in the afternoon hours, came to one of the hangars in the Gabela Camp, and took one of the detainees out of there, and he had been unaccounted for until his mortal remains were exhumed and identified in 1996. The Court established that the Accused Andrun on an unidentified date in October 1993, in the evening hours, in the Gabela Camp, after a detainee refused to comply with his order, he entered the hangar together with an HVO soldier known to him, took the detainee out of the hangar, whereupon several unknown members of the HVO, in the presence of Nikola Andrun, beat the detainee all over his body, whereupon the detainee died. 

Further on, on two occasions, in August and September 1993, together with the Camp Commander, Nikola Andrun removed a group of Bosniaks from the Gabela Camp to the Silos Camp near Čapljina, with the aim to prevent the employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross to make a list of the detainees.

The Accused Nikola Andrun is acquitted of the charge that in early July 1993 he took part in the inhumane treatment of a group of detainees whom he had taken out from one of the hangars and driven to the Police Station in Čitluk.

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