Kondic et al: Trial due to start
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Following a delay of several months, the trial of Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic, who are charged with crimes in Kljuc municipality starts before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The trial has been postponed due to the illness of indictee Kondic.
Despite the fact that the indictee said that he “has high blood pressure and stomach ache”, the trial started but participants could take breaks, as recommended by a medical court expert.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina read the indictment against Kondic, as well as the indictment against Adamovic and Lukic. The three indictees are charged with having participated in organising a group of people and abetting them to commit genocide, crime against humanity and war crimes in Kljuc municipality in 1992.
The indictment alleges that Kondic, as member of the Executive Committee of the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, in Kljuc municipality, chief of the Public Safety Station in Kljuc and member of the Crisis Committee and Town Defence, participated in the crimes against Croatian and Bosniak residents as of June 1991.
It is alleged that, on November 18, 1991 Kondic “undertook some activities with an aim of stopping a convoy of refugees from Slunj,” the Republic of Croatia. Police forces, which were commanded by the indictee, singled out about 30 adult Croatian men from the rest of the convoy and took them to the Public Safety Station in Kljuc. After having tortured them they drove them to “Stara Gradiska” detention camp.
The indictment alleges that, from May 27 to late August, 1992 police forces and the army undertook the search of villages and settlements in Kljuc municipality, capturing and taking civilians to detention camps forced into the school building in Sanica, “Nikola Mackic” school building in Kljuc, the former railway station in Sanica and the Public Safety Station in Kljuc.
“I do not understand the indictment. I cannot believe that these crimes are charged upon someone. It does not correspond to my identity. It does not specify the timespan,” Kondic said. Prior to his arrest in December 2007, he was Defence attorney with the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Marko Adamovic and Bosko Lukic are charged with having committed crimes against humanity, organised a group of people and abetted them to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The indictment alleges that, from April to December 1992 the two men, “in coordination with other members of the Crisis Committee of Kljuc municipality”, planned, prepared, initiated, supported and participated in the campaign, consisting of persecution of the non-Serbian population.
