A naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina has pleaded guilty after allegedly lying about prior human rights violations to obtain U.S. citizenship, officials said .

Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, of West Virginia, formerly of Hartford, served with the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, during the armed conflict in the region, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut . Officials allege that Tomanic participated in the physical and psychological abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners.

“The defendant obtained the privileges of U.S. citizenship through lies and deceit, concealing the violent crimes she committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Cri

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