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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A United States District Court in Chattanooga has filed an opposition to a motion that would dismiss charges against an East Ridge man who allegedly tortured criminals during the Bosnia War.
Sead Milijkovic, who was naturalized in the U.S. in 2007 under the false identity “Sead Dukic,” is charged in a federal indictment with torturing prisoners during the conflict between Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.
Milijkovic was arrested in June 2023 after federal agents alleged that he falsified his passport application with a fake name.
Authorities said he applied twice under his real name and then finally used the last name “Dukic” in 1999 to enter the U.S., living at his Taramack Trail residence since purchasing it in 2001.
Later that year, Milijkovic was charged with three counts of torturing prisoners between December 1994 and August 1995 when he and other Bosnian police severely beat prisoners, forced hard labor, withheld water, and even made them fight each other.
Milijkovic’s attorneys argued that the federal charges be dropped because they claim there is a five-year statute of limitations on charges of torture and because they say the conflict in Bosnia “did not involve the United States.”
However, the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga has countered that “the United States was in fact deeply involved both militarily and diplomatically in the way.”
They also cite Milijkovic’s fraudulent entry into the United States as an additional reason why the charges should stand.
