Koricanske stijene: Jankovic commanded Prijedor police
16 July 2010
Prosecutors at the trial of five indictees charged with crimes committed at Koricanske stijene continued presenting material evidence that they claim proves that Dusan Jankovic had a managerial function with the Prijedor police.
Jankovic, Zoran Babic, Milorad Radakovic, Milorad Skrbic and Zeljko Stojnic, former members of the Police Interventions Squad in Prijedor, are charged with participating in the shooting of about 200 men at Koricanske stijene on Mount Vlasic on August 21, 1992.
Prosecutors allege that Jankovic was the commander of the Public Safety Station in Prijedor.
Among other documents presented by prosecutors, was an order issued by the Crisis Committee of Prijedor municipality on June 17, 1992, requesting that the Public Safety Station, PSS, form an interventions squad whose main task would be to prevent robberies and check vehicles.
"In the upper part of the document we can see that Dusan Jankovic is mentioned as one of the managers who received the order, just like chief Simo Drljaca,” said Slavica Terzic.
Drljaca was chief of the PSS in Prijedor. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, charged him with war crimes, but he died prior to the beginning of the trial.
The prosecution presented a list of employees with the police station in Prijedor dated May 29, 1992, indicating that Jankovic was the commander. However, there was no signature on the document.
"We are presenting an order issued by the First Krajina Corps to the Safety Services Center in Banja Luka on September 8, 1992, which was also copied to Dusan Jankovic. This proves that Jankovic continued performing his function even after the crime had been committed,” Terzic said.
Jankovic’s defence objected to the evidence, claiming the documents were not relevant and adding it was not possible to determine from the documents, “in which capacity the indictee was treated”.
The trial will continue on August 16.
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