Kravica: “Muslims were killed for revenge”

Blagoje Stanisic, who in July 1995 was a bus driver within the special police Sekovici detachment, has testified at the trial of 11 indictees charged with genocide in Kravica.

He told the court that on July 12, 1995 he drove soldiers and policemen to Kravica, and returned one day later. During the afternoon of July 13, he heard shooting from the direction oft he farm’s storage shed.

According to his testimony, he found out”from some old man” that “Muslims are being killed there”. The same man told him that this was happening “out of revenge because some Serb man was killed”.

The indictment charges 11 former members of army and police forces of Bosnian Serbs with involvement in the massacre of around a thousand Bosniaks in a storage shed of a farm in the village Kravica, which took place after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.

Stanisic said that, as he was driving towards Konjevic polje after the shooting, in front of the storage shed he saw “big amounts of scattered hay”, but that he did not see dead bodies.

He remembered that while he was in the field in Bratunac, he saw Ratko Mladic, with whom he briefly spoke, but who did not tell him anything of the events that took place in Srebrenica,

Mirko Sekulic, another prosecution witness, recognized most of the indictees in the courtroom, and described them as “positive characters”.

In 1995 Sekulic was a member of special police Skelani, where he was first assigned to the position of warehouse operator, then became technical secretary of the detachment.

“Milenko Trifunovic was my commander,” Sekulic said, recognizing the indictee in the courtroom.

As far as the other indictees are concerned, he recognized them and said that they are “positive characters full of understanding” and “very nice people”.

Continuation of the main hearing is scheduled for September 13.