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Jevic et al: Former Indictees Take the Stand

Jević i ostali

30 August 2010  

Two witnesses previously on trial for the same crime testified at the trial of four men charged with genocide at Srebrenica.

Petar Mitrovic and Miladin Stevanovic said they secured the road in Sandici as members of the Second Special Police Squad from Sekovici in July 1995.
 
They also said they were in the agricultural cooperative in Kravica where about 1,000 Bosniak detainees were killed.
 
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina previously sentenced Mitrovic to 28 years in prison for participating in the capture and murder of Bosniaks in Kravica Cooperative. Stevanovic was acquitted of all charges.
 
They were testifying at the trial of Dusko Jevic, Mendeljev Djuric, Goran Markovic and Nedjo Ikonic who are charged with participation in the murders and forcible resettlement of Bosniaks from Srebrenica.   
 
The indictment alleges that Jevic was commander of the Training Center on Mount Jahorina, Djuric and Ikonic were company commanders and Markovic was a squad commander.
 
At the beginning of the hearing, Mitrovic said he did not want to testify in the absence of his attorney. However, judges said he must as his trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had been completed and his appeal filed with the Constitutional Court was “a separate proceeding”.
 
Mitrovic said he went from Sandici to the Cooperative in Kravica, because he was told a Serbian policeman had been killed.
 
“I heard people talking to each other inside the building. They even cursed Chetnik’s mothers. I saw between five and 10 corpses in front of the hangar. While I was there, there was no shooting,” Mitrovic said.
 
The witness said a Serbian soldier dressed in green camouflage told him that he was a deserter. According to earlier witness statements, the Training Center on Mount Jahorina consisted of people who had escaped military service.   
 
Stevanovic said he saw seven or eight corpses in front of the Cooperative in Kravica where he had also come to collect the dead policeman’s body.
 
“I could hear people shouting and screaming in the hangar. I stayed there for a short time and then I left,” Stevanovic said.
 
He said there were about 50 soldiers surrounding the Cooperative building, some dressed in camouflage and black uniforms. He was not able to say to which units they belonged.   
 
The trial continues on September 6.

M.T.