Kondic et al: Almighty people
08 October 2008 A Prosecution witness, who testified for three days, repeated several times that he considered Vinko Kondic responsible for the crimes in Kljuc in 1992.
On the third day of his testimony, Prosecution witness
Muhamed Filipovic said again that indictee Vinko Kondic did not cause physical or mental injuries to him during the course of his detention, but he
said that he considered him and other members of the Crisis Committee
responsible for the crimes committed in Kljuc.
"While I was detained, I was not beaten up by any Kljuc
residents, but I was beaten by other people, who came from Sanski Most and
Bosanska Krupa. Kondic, Jovo Banjac and other members of the Crisis Committee
could do anything at that time. I consider them responsible for the murder of
800 Kljuc residents in 1992," Filipovic said, answering the Defence's
questions.
Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic are charged with having
participated in organising a group of people and abetting them to commit
genocide, as well as crimes against humanity in Kljuc municipality in the course
of 1992.
At the hearings held on September 26 and October 6 Filipovic said that,
after having been captured in May 1992, he was taken to the police station in
Kljuc and then to detention camps in Stara Gradiska and Manjaca.
Kondic's Defence attorney Predrag Radulovic said that the Defence "does
not doubt or deny" the fact that Filipovic was physically and mentally abused in
the course of 1992.
Filipovic said that Bosniaks "started organising themselves in 1991, out
of fear from war", but, "unlike Bosnian Serbs, they did not have weapons
delivered to them by the Yugoslav National Army helicopters".
This witness said that Bosniaks formed the Bosanski Kljuc
municipality, as well as a Crisis Committee, which never actually functioned in
practice, unlike the Crisis Committee, former by Bosnian Serbs.
The testimony of Muhamed Filipovic has now been
completed.
The
trial is due to continue on Monday, October 13.
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