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Kondic et al: A Novel for Each Day

Kondic i ostali

14 December 2009  Prosecution witnesses speak about the participation of Vinko Kondic in certain events in Kljuc in 1992 and recall the torture they suffered in that town.

Fikreta Zukanovic lived in Luke in Kljuc until October 1, 1992, when she left the town together with her family, after several months of torture.

"Had I described what we lived through, I would have been able to write a novel for each day. (...) On one occasion I went to Biljani to visit my brothers. The village looked ghostly. I shall never forget it. On that day Muslims had to put white blankets on the windows, to mark their surrender," witness Zukanovic said.

Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic are charged with a number of crimes committed in the Kljuc area in 1991 and 1992. The three men are charged with having participated in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of taking over authority in the municipality and joining it with the Krajina Autonomous Region and the Republic of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment alleges that on May 27, 1992 soldiers and policemen unlawfully arrested civilians while taking over control of Kljuc town, and detained them in the Public Safety Station, where they physically and mentally abused them and then took them to Stara Gradiska and Manjaca detention camps.

Witness Zukanovic said that, as of that date, her male neighbours were taken away. She was afraid the same thing would happen to her family. Zukanovic told the Court that this was why she relocated three nephews, by convoy, from the Kljuc area, with the help of indictee Vinko Kondic at the beginning of September 1992.

"One of my nephews, Armin, did not have a movement pass. I called Vinko Kondic at the Public Safety Station in Kljuc. He told me to come there, promising he would give me the pass. This is how it happened. Then they joined the convoy, which transported them from Kljuc. Me and my family left the town on October 1, 1992, after having signed a statement giving up on our property," Zukanovic said.

The indictment alleges that Vinko Kondic was Chief of the Public Safety Station in Kljuc.

The second Prosecution witness, Mujo Sehic, recalled having been detained in the Public Safety Station in Kljuc, but he did not say when this happened. Five days later he was taken, together with other men, to Manjaca detention camp, where he stayed until November 30, 1992.

"First they detained me, my 15-year old son and other Sehici village residents in some Center. After having been held there for a few days, we were released. Later, reserve policemen took me and neighbour Cazim Hadzic to the Public Safety Station in Kljuc, where I was examined and beaten," Sehic said.

This witness told the Court that the other men were also examined and beaten up in the Public Safety Station premises in Kljuc and Manjaca detention camp, from which they were taken to other locations to perform forced labour.

"While I was in Manjaca, Sreto Anicic and Tode Gajic examined me. Before that, three policemen beat me up brutally. They did not ask many questions. Anicic told me that my family had left Kljuc. Later on, when I was released from the detention camp, my wife told me that Anicic's father had helped her leave the town, but she had first had to give up her property in favour of Serbs," Sehic said.

Indictee Kondic did not attend the hearing, because he "does not feel well". However, the medical service determined that he was capable of attending the trial. This is the seventh hearing in a row from which he has been absent for the same reason.

The trial is due to continue on December 16, 2009.