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Lazarevic et al: Prosecution completes evidence presentation

21 August 2008  The State Prosecution presents material evidence thus completing its evidence presentation at the trial of Sreten Lazarevic, Dragan Stanojevic, Mile Markovic and Slobodan Ostojic.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina completed the evidence presentation process at the trial for Zvornik crimes by presenting its material evidence.

Earlier on the Prosecution examined all witnesses and asked for permission to present its material evidence at a later stage, when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, provided it with endorsements and certificates related to the presented documents.

In the meantime the Defence started presenting evidence. The process is nearing an end.

The Prosecution charges Sreten Lazarevic, Dragan Stanojevic, Mile Markovic and Slobodan Ostojic, as members of reserve police forces with the Public Safety Station in Zvornik, with having participated in the detention and beating of civilians, who were detained in the prison, offence court and "Novi izvor" buildings in Zvornik.

The indictment alleges that Sreten Lazarevic was manager of the detention camp, in which civilians were held, while Stanojevic, Markovic and Ostojic were detention camp guards.

The documents, presented by the Prosecution, mainly contain evidence of the existence of an armed conflict in the Zvornik area in the period covered by the indictment.

The Prosecution presented a list of reserve police members from Zvornik, who were employed in the prison in August 1992. The mentioned list contains the names of the four indictees.

At the hearing held on August 21 the Defence examined its witness Milos Batic, who said that he worked with Sreten Lazarevic in the period from 1992 to 1993, adding that they were tasked with the maintenance and servicing of vehicles belonging to "the Internal Affairs Service in Zvornik".

"I was a car mechanic, while Sreten was a tinman. He used to perform minor repairs in the workshop and the major ones at his house," Batic said.

The witness said that he did not consider Lazarevic as his close friend, but he knew that Sreten was a reserve policeman. He said that he "did not know that he worked in the prison".

Batic identified Slobodan Ostojic in the courtroom. He said he had known him since 1992, adding that he had "a very good opinion about him".

"He is a good man and a hard worker. I have never heard anyone say any bad words about him. Not one returnee had ever complained about him," Batic said, concluding his testimony.

The trial is due to continue on August 26, 2008.