On 7 January 2026, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the Indictment in the case of Zoran Simanić et al., which charges the accused Zoran Simanić and Dragan Jović with the criminal offense of Genocide under Article 171, Subparagraphs a) and b), of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CCBiH) as read with Article 180(1) and with Article 31 of the Code.

The accused are charged that, in the period from 6 July 1995 to 1 November 1995, during a widespread and systematic attack launched by members of the VRS and the RS MUP, directed against members of the Bosniak people in the UN safe area of Srebrenica, during which an operation was carried out to permanently and forcibly relocate the entire Bosniak civilian population, and to unlawfully arrest, detain, and execute able-bodied Bosniak men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave, and to execute, bury, exhume, and rebury them in other locations in order to conceal evidence, in which way a group of Bosniak people was partially exterminated, with more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys killed, buried, exhumed, and moved to other locations and reburied, the accused Zoran Simić and Dragan Jović knowingly and intentionally provided assistance to members of a joint criminal enterprise (JCE), whose plan and goal was to imprison and summarily execute, and then bury, able-bodied Bosniak men from the Srebrenica enclave, and to forcibly transfer women, children and the elderly from the enclave.

It is further alleged that the accused participated in the implementation of the said plan in such a way that, after, on 14 July 1995, at least 829 detained Bosniak men and boys from the United Nations Safe Area “Srebrenica” were forcibly brought from the territory of the Bratunac municipality to the primary school in the Roćević settlement, Zvornik municipality, and then to the gravel pit on the banks of the Drina River, Kozluk settlement, Zvornik municipality, together with other persons known to them, they participated in the killing (murder) of the said detainees throughout the day, at which location, by the end of the day on 15 July 1995, no less than 829 persons were killed, whose mortal remains were subsequently buried in mass graves at the said location, after which their mortal remains were transferred to several secondary mass graves.