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Savic and Mucibabic: A humane act

16 July 2008  Former detainees, who were detained in the detention camps in Bileca and Nevesinje, speak about the participation of police in the capture of Bosniaks, as well as the role played by the two indictees.

Prosecution witnesses recalled how they were captured in June 1992, describing their detention in the Public Safety Station in Vesinje, where they saw "police chief Savic." They spoke about the help provided by "policeman Mileta" to the family of one of them.

"After having spent one day in the basement of the police station, a military vehicle transported me and other men to Bileca. We were told that we would be exchanged there. Kico, former Minister of the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina, was standing in front of the police station in Nevesinje, holding two guns and giving orders," Milarem Trebovic said, adding that he was arrested on June 18, 1992.

The State Prosecution charges Krsto Savic, also known as Kico, and Milko Mucibabic, known as Mileta, among other things, with having participated in the capture, detention and physical and mental abuse of Bosniaks in Nevesinje, Gacko, Bileca and Kalinovik in 1992. The indictment alleges that Mucibabic was member of the Public Safety Station in Nevesinje, which was commanded by Savic.

"I spent 14 days in 'Mose Pijade' military barracks in Bileca. With the help from my friends, I left the barracks and went to Podgorica. During that time Mileta Mucibabic helped my wife and children leave Nevesinje, by providing them with some documents issued by the Red Cross. What he did was a humane act," Trebovic said.

Second Prosecution witness Esad Sarancic was brought to the police building in Nevesinje, in which Bosniaks were detained, on June 16, 1992. His brother was with him and their wives and children were taken to the tools factory.

"They beat me and my brother in the Crisis Committee premises. Later on they took us to the police station, where I probably saw Mucibabic, who told Pero Laketa to take us to the basement. As per an order given by Krsto Savic, former Minister of Interior, we were transferred to Bileca the following day," Sarancic said.

This witness claims to have seen "bloodstains on the walls" in the basement of the police station in Nevesinje, adding that, after having been "detained for 62 days in Bileca," he was exchanged in Stolac on August 18, 1992.

Sarancic was not able to confirm whether he actually saw indictee Mucibabic in the Public Safety Station in Nevesinje, because, as he said, he was "beaten up and frightened."

The trial is due to continue on Thursday, July 17.