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Koricanske stijene: "Attending Religious Celebration" in Dubica

Korićanske stijene

01 June 2010  

Mirko Zlojutro, testifying for the Defence of the fourth indictee at the trial for the crime at Koricanske stijene, says that Dusan Jankovic attended a religious celebration at Zlojutro's home on August 21, 1992.

"I was on my way back from a battlefield. I stopped in a village, near Dubica, to see my friend Milan Kukic. He celebrated some religious holiday on August 21 each year. He did the same thing in 1992. Upon arrival, I saw Mico and his friends roasting a lamb. Dusan Jankovic and his son were there as well. I do not know when he had come to Kukic's place, but I saw him at about noon. He stayed until 4 or 5 p.m.," Zlojutro said.

The indictment alleges that Dusan Jankovic, former Commander of the Public Safety Station in Prijedor, Zoran Babic, Milorad Radakovic, Milorad Skrbic and Zeljko Stojnic, members of the Interventions Squad with the same Station, escorted a convoy, consisting of about 1,200 Bosniaks and Croats, who were being transported from Prijedor to Travnik on August 21, 1992.

The Prosecution contends that the indictees separated about 200 men from the rest of the convoy on Mount Vlasic, took them to Koricanske stijene and shot them.

Vaso Skondric testified as the second witness for Jankovic's Defence. The former Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, MUP RS, told the Court he had known Jankovic since 1971, adding that he was "a diligent, skillful and correct colleague".

"I know for sure that Jankovic was Commander of the Police Station in Prijedor, because I attended the handover ceremony in August 1991. Whenever an extraordinary situation is declared, reserve police stations become functional and filled with policemen and volunteers, while the police forces, active in normal conditions, stop working. In 1992 Jankovic was involved in logistics. My colleagues told me and I personally witnessed this," Skondric said.

The witness said that he found out about the crime committed at Koricanske stijene "two or three days" after it had happened, adding that people said Simo Drljaca, the then Chief of the Public Safety Station in Prijedor, would be dismissed.

Simo Drljaca was charged, before the Hague Tribunal, with crimes committed in Prijedor, but he was killed during the course of an arrest operation in 1997.

Following the examination of the last two witnesses, Jankovic's Defence attorney Ranko Dakic included 49 pieces of material evidence in the case file.

The trial of the five indictees charged with the crime at Koricanske stijene is due to continue on June 14, when indictee Zeljko Stojnic will testify in his own defence.