Skrobic: A good fighter

Slavko Bujdo, who testified as Marko Skrobic’s Defence witness, told the Court that the indictee participated in making a shelter for civilians and burying the dead from July 25 to August 15, 1992, adding that he was his “closest assistant” in those tasks.

The indictment alleges that Skrobic and four other armed persons forced the Glamocak family out of their house in Novo selo village, Kotor-Varos municipality, in July 31, 1992. After having separated the family members from each other, they took them in the direction of Ravne village. He then shot Stojko Glamocak in his chest and he died immediately.

“After the attack on Kotor on July 25, 1992, we started making shelters for the civilians and organising the burial of the dead and so on. The situation was the most critical up to August 15. In that period of time, the attacks were conducted at night and we were all together. Nobody could have been absent, absolutely nobody,” Bujdo said.

Bujdo told the Court that he knew Glamocak family members and he heard other people say that “a person named Dzem, Dzemo” or “Goran Tesic and his guys” killed Stojko Glamocak.

The witness said that it was not until last year that he found out, “from the media” that Skrobic was charged with that crime.

“I was shocked. I called his family to tell them that everything would be all right and he would be released. He was one of the best soldiers in our municipality. We could all rely on his help. He came there and strengthened our Kotor,” Bujdo said.

Witness Muhamed Sadikovic, who was Bujdo’s superior until June 1992, told the Court that the role of the Territorial Defence, which was composed of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats at that time, was “strictly defensive” and it did not “undertake any operations.”

Witness Dragoslav Perisic, a policeman who took a statement from Glamocak family members in 2005, as per an order made by the Prosecutor from Banja Luka, was examined at this hearing.

Perisic said that he extracted, from the Citizens Identification Protection System, CIPS, the personal data of four persons, named Marko Skrobic, which he presented to the witnesses for identification purposes.

“This was not necessary, as they had known him from before. Before I had presented the data to them, they described him and mentioned his father’s name, because they had known him from before. I think that Stana and Boro were in the same room when the identification took place. This was done at their house,” Perisic said.

Stana and Boro Glamocak, the family members of Stojko, testified as Prosecution witnesses, claiming that Stojko had been killed by the indictee.

The next hearing will take place on August 22, when the indictee is due to testify.