Kondic et al: Smoke Going Up to the Sky
30 November 2009 A Prosecution witness says that "Serb soldiers" killed her brother and nine other men and then burned them in Donja Sanica village.
Hasiba Sljivar, testifying for the Prosecution, said she lost her brother Hasan Fazlic some time in 1992, adding that his body was burned in Donja Sanica. She found his remains a few days after the murder.
"On that day they forced us to leave our houses and they burned them. As me and other women and children were moving towards Crnalici, I saw Omer Basic's house, which was on fire. My brother and the other men stood in front of that house. The smoke was going up to the sky. (...) Later on we found Smajo Sljivar's body in that house. We believed our men were burned in it as well," witness Sljivar said.
The Prosecution charges Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic with the murder of men in this and other villages in the Kljuc area from the end of May 1992 to April 1994. The three men are charged with participation in crimes against humanity, as well as with having organized a group of people and abetted them to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Kljuc area.
The indictment alleges that soldiers and policemen came to undefended villages, including Donja Sanica, and "intimidated and beat up their residents" and killed at least 30 people.
"We found out that four other men were burned in another house. After the war I was told that bones were found in Omer's house," the witness said, adding that 10 men were killed and burned on that day.
This witness said that, prior to the murders, "Serb soldiers" took her brother Hasan Fazlic and other men from Donja Sanica village, to Manjaca detention camp at the end of May 1992. A few days later Hasan was released, together with three other men, because, as she said, they were "elderly men".
Witness Sljivar told the Court that she joined a convoy, consisting of "ten buses and two big trucks", in Crnalici and left the Kljuc area a month later.
After having examined the witness, the Prosecution included in the case file 18 pieces of material evidence pertaining to functions performed by indictee Kondic from 1991 to 1996, as well as his membership in the Serb Democratic Party, SDS. The Prosecution presented, as material evidence, several documents by which it sought to prove Lukic's membership in the SDS.
The trial of the three indictees began in December 2008. The Prosecution has presented more than 100 pieces of material evidence up to the present date.
Vinko Kondic refused to appear at this hearing on the grounds of poor health. However, the medical service at the Detention Unit of the State Court determined that he was capable of attending the trial.
The trial is due to continue on December 7.
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Poslao: 2010-07-01 23:13:09,
Very happy to see that somebody took care of those poor innocent people, this village today is really worth of seeing.