Klickovic et al: Live targets

The Prosecution witnesses claim that, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 1992, Bosanska Krupa and the surrounding villages, including Zalug, were attacked.

Prosecution witnesses Mirsad Sabic and Enver Ezic, Zalug village residents, said that, “in late April or early May”, they were taken, just like four other village residents, to “Petar Kocic” school building, where they were detained and guarded by military policemen.

“We stayed in the school for a few days. We were guarded by some uniformed men, who introduced themselves as military policemen. Later on we were transferred to a school building in Jasenica, where Mladen Drljaca examined us before the Serbian court of honour,” Sabic said.

The Prosecution charges Drljaca, Gojko Klickovic and Jovan Ostojic with crimes in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1991 and 1992.

“The Court was located in the museum building. Drljaca and Rajko Klickovic, Gojko’s brother, were there. They did not introduce themselves, as we were neighbours, so we knew each other. Following an examination about weapons, Drljaca told me that I was guilty,” Sabic said.

The two witnesses said that they were transferred from the school building in Jasenica back to “Petar Kocic” school, in which some prisoners were “severely mistreated”.

“There were 65 men and two women – Semsa Sepic and witness 03. I remember that Zeljo Smoljanac used to take witness 03 out and raped her very often. From that school building we were taken to other locations to perform forced labour. On one occasion I was wounded, while I was used as human shield in Hum,” Sabic said. Following the wounding, he was transferred to a hospital in Bosanski Petrovac.

Zeljko Smoljanac is mentioned in the Prosecution’s indictment as one of the accomplices in the crimes committed in Bosanska Krupa.

Sabic said that, “six or seven days later” he was returned to Krupa, adding that Slavko Ilic, “civil police commander”, helped him go to Zalug. He left Zalug, in an organised manner, together with other residents, “in late June or early July” 1992.

Witness Enver Ezic said that, in the course of his detention in the school building in Krupa town, he was beaten up several times. He said he was forced to perform hard labour, such as “digging trenches or cleaning the town”, adding that, while doing that, he was “a live target”.

“A man, who had a scar on his right cheek, mistreated me in the course of the examination. Other guards told me that he was from Grahovo. On one occasion some unknown guards beat me up so heavily, that I was half dead,” Ezic recalled.

Ezic said he was exchanged on May 22, 1992, as were some other detainees from “Petar Kocic” school building.

The trial is due to continue on Wednesday, September 24.