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Bastah et al: Evidence Presentation Completed

Bastah i Viskovic

26 November 2009  

Following the completion of the Defence's material evidence presentation and the reading of the changed indictment against Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic, the Trial Chamber announces that the State Prosecution will present its closing arguments on December 7 while the Defence teams will do the same on December 14 and 17.

Bastah, a former member of reserve police forces with the Public Safety Station in Vlasenica, and Viskovic, a former member of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Army, are charged with having participated in a systematic attack against the non-Serb population of Vlasenica Municipality between April and September 1992.

The Prosecution considers that Bastah and Viskovic participated in capturing, beating, raping and killing Bosniak civilians, who were detained in "Susica" detention camp and other detention camps in the Vlasenica region.

The trial began in July 2008.

At this hearing the Defence of indictee Bastah presented a number of pieces of material evidence, including, among others, one document by which it seeks to provide an alibi for the indictee for June 2, 1992. It presented the birth certificate of Predrag Bastah's daughter, in a effort to prove that "the indictee attended a birthday party organized by his wife's relatives during the mentioned period of time in 1992".

Among other things, Bastah is charged with having taken Huso Kicic, a minor, "by pulling him by his hair", from his house in Vlasenica on June 2, 1992 and taking him to the Police Station, where he "strongly hit him on his chest with a rifle butt".

The last piece of evidence presented by the Defence of Goran Viskovic was a dossier obtained from the Association of Detainees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, pertaining to protected witness 8.

The indictment alleges that in June 1992 Viskovic took a person, who testified under the pseudonym of 8, from Susica detention camp and took her into a guard house, where he handcuffed her, "ordered her to spread her legs, ripped her clothes off, pushed a police stick into her genitals and raped her".

Following the completion of the evidence presentation, the State Prosecution read the revised indictment, saying this was just "an adapted and more precise" version of the original indictment.

"Nothing has been changed, except for a couple of words which have been added. The Defence will not ask for postponement for preparation," Defence attorney Potparic said.