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Klickovic et al: Witness Saw Killings in School

Klickovic i ostali

24 August 2010  

A former prison guard at the Petar Kocic school building in Bosanska Krupa told the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina that he saw men being murdered in the building.

Testifying for the defence of Jovan Ostojic, Zdravko Narancic, a former military policeman from Krupa, accused Lazo Plavanjac of the killings.
 
Narancic said he was on duty at the school building when a group of male detainees were killed. The witness said that Plavanjac and his son Joja, who were armed, came to the building looking for a man called Predrag Prastalo.
 
“As I heard, Prastalo had killed Joja’s mother Savka Plavanjac a few days earlier. They came to the school building looking for him, because he was detained in the building for a short time. (...) After they had entered the building, Lazo went somewhere to look for a soldier. I stayed in my office with Joja. Then, we heard shooting. A short time later Lazo entered the cells in which a group of men had been held and shot those people,” said Narancic, adding the bodies of the victims “were driven away that night”.

Gojko Klickovic, Mladen Drljaca and Jovan Ostojic are charged with crimes committed in Bosanska Krupa during 1992. The indictment alleges that Joja Plavanjac came to the Petar Kocic building between August 1 and 12, 1992, when Narancic was on duty, and killed a group of people.

This witness said that he informed Mile Cazic, a military police squad commander, about the incident, but Cazic told him not to speak about it until they “figured out what to do next”.
 
Narancic said that people “did not talk much” about the crime and nobody conducted an investigation. He heard that detainees were mistreated in the school and that the Jasenica school building was used as “a reception centre”.
 
“Some people were mistreated when they were brought to the building. No big incidents happened in the prison during the course of my shift, but I heard that incidents did happen during other shifts. I never hit anyone, but I was rather strict in terms of discipline,” Narancic said. 
 
Prosecutors allege that the non-Serbian population was detained in a school building in Jasenica and the Petar Kocic school in Krupa where they were interrogated, mistreated, physically and mentally abused and killed.  
 
Mladen Skenderija, who also testified for Ostojic’s defence, was former Assistant Commander for Morale with the Second Krajina Corps of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS. He said Ostojic was “a professional”, adding he saw him in Drvar at the beginning of August.
 
“I remember having seen him in Drvar on August 2 when he told me after the meeting that he had still not handed over the Assistant Commander for Morale duty in Kupres. I then told him to go there on the following day and do it, also telling him to take a few days off and visit his family,” Skenderija said.
 
The witness said that Ostojic was “one of the most respected officers”, adding he “was loved and respected principles”.
 
Milovan Drljaca, who also testified in Ostojic’s defence, said the accused was “a very good professional”, adding he did not know there was a prison in Krupa.
 
“Later on I found out that Bosniaks were detained and Joja went there and did it. I heard about it after the war had ended,” said Drljaca, the former Communications Squad Commander in Krupa.
 
The trial will continue on August 25.

A.A.