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Klickovic et al: Brief letter to the Serbian people

26 August 2008  The State Prosecution presents, as material evidence, some documents pertaining to the establishment of the so-called Serbian municipality of Bosanska Krupa, as well as Gojko Klickovic's letter addressed to "the Serbian people".

At the trial for crimes committed in the Bosanska Krupa area, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented a number of documents pertaining to the establishment of the so-called Serbian municipality of Bosanska Krupa in 1991, as well as taking over the police and military structures in that municipality.

Gojko Klickovic, Jovan Ostojic and Mladen Drljaca are charged with having participated in an attack, conducted by "the SDS paramilitary formations" and the Army of the former Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, against non-Serbian civilians in Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.

They are charged with participating in a joint criminal enterprise, with an aim of connecting the parts of the country inhabited by Serbs and "creating a territory from which all non-Serbian residents would be deported".

The Prosecution presented some documents dated October and December 1991. The mentioned documents refer to the establishment of "temporary assembly of the Serbian people" in Bosanska Krupa area and proclamation of the Serbian municipality, SM, of Bosanska Krupa.

As stated in those documents the SM of Bosanska Krupa became a part of the Autonomous Region, AR, of Krajina, while Gojko Klickovic and Mladen Drljaca were appointed as members of the AR Assembly.

The documents further indicate that the Executive Board and Assembly of the SM of Bosanska Krupa initiated the establishment of a Public Safety Station and Territorial Defence Staffs in order to "preserve order and peace".

"In this area soldiers perform all tasks in accordance with the rules of warfare. At the moment between 3,500 and 4,000 adult men, capable of serving the army, reside in the SM of Bosanska Krupa. Those people represent a significant potential that might be used to supplement the forces of the decaying Yugoslavia," the document made by the SM of Bosanska Krupa Assembly states.

"The brief letter to Serbian people", addressed by Gojko Klickovic, former president of the Executive Board of the SM of Bosanska Krupa Assembly, to all local communities in that area in January 1992, indicates that "the situation is complex and tense", adding that, in case a war broke out, they would respond by "due war".

As indicated in the document dated January 3, 1992, Klickovic said that "the intolerance between Muslims and Bosnian Serbs" had led to the division of the municipality, claiming that the Serbs did not want to live together with those who had "committed the horrible genocide" on that territory.

The Defence objected the inclusion of some of these documents as material evidence, because they were not signed or stamped, adding that the documents were "irrelevant", as they did not pertain to 1992, when the crimes, charged upon the three indictees, were committed. Besides this, the Defence teams questioned the authenticity of some document copies obtained from The Hague, because they were certified by municipal authorities in Sarajevo and not by the Tribunal.

The trial of Klickovic, Ostojic and Drljaca, before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, commenced in May 2008. Up to now, the State Prosecution has presented more than 90 pieces of material evidence.

The Prosecution is due to continue presenting its material evidence on Wednesday, August 27.