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Savic on Trial for Visegrad Crimes

Momir Savic
Momir Savic

12 August 2008  The indictment was read today and the Prosecution and Defence presented introductory arguments in the trial of Momir Savic for crimes committed in the Visegrad area in 1992.

 

Savic is accused of persecution, murder and rape. He is alleged to have been a commander of the Republika Srpska Army’s Visegrad Brigade and also a member of a paramilitary group.


Prosecutor Adnan Gulamovic said he would examine 33 witnesses and present 82 pieces of material evidence. He said the evidence would confirm the allegations contained in the indictment.


The Defence will seek to prove that Savic never participated in persecution, forcible resettlement, murder or rape of Bosniak women in the Visegrad area. It says that Savic was never a commander with the Visegrad Brigade.


The indictment alleges that Savic participated on several occasions in abuse of captured Bosniak civilians in Visegrad. He is also accused of false arrest, pillage and murder, and he is charged with having raped a woman several times between June and September 1992.


The Prosecution alleges that the indictee and "other VRS members" took 10 Bosniak civilians from their homes in the Drinsko settlement, maltreated them and then shot them in Pusin do forest in May 1992.


The Prosecution said it had documents to prove the indictee's wartime status, and other evidence to support witnesses’ statements.


The Defence denied all the allegations in the indictment and questioned the credibility of Prosecution witnesses.


"Twenty-two, out of 33, Prosecution witnesses, know the indictee by sight or do not know him at all. Those who do know him have not confirmed that he committed the crimes described in the indictment," attorney Dragan Medjovic, said, arguing that it is absurd to have witnesses who have never seen the indictee accuse him of grave crimes.


Medjovic said that during the trial he would show that his client "kept numerous civilians from being killed and helped them safely leave Drinsko village" during the war, and that he had to leave Visegrad in early 1993 because of that.


The first prosecution witnesses will be examined on August 14.

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