A former Hartford woman who is accused of committing war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s has pleaded guilty to charges related to lying to obtain U.S. citizenship, according to federal officials.

Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, of West Virginia, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to federal officials, and she pleaded guilty on Nov. 10.

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She served with the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s during the armed conflict in the region and participated in the physical and psychological abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners, along with other soldiers, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

When she ap

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