Djukic: Defence Completes Presentation of Evidence

The Defence of Novak Djukic, charged with shelling Tuzla in May 1995, presented five pieces of material evidence and completed its evidence presentation at this trial.

The State Prosecution charges Djukic, former Commander of the Ozren Tactical Group with the Republika Srpska Army, with ordering the shelling of central Tuzla on May 25 and 28, 1995.

The Defence presented, as material evidence, a wartime record made by the Second Ozren Light Brigade covering the period from September 1994 to September 1995. It also introduced several other documents with the aim of proving “the continuity of the process”.

The Prosecution did not raise objections to any of the evidence that was presented.

After the Defence had completed its evidence presentation, Prosecutor Mirsad Strika proposed that a court medical expert, Vedo Tuco, be examined during the presentation of additional evidence. The Defence attorney did not object to this proposal.

“Following the court expert’s presentation of findings, the Defence again questioned the final number of victims, who were killed and wounded at Kapija in Tuzla,” Strika said.

The indictment states that the shell that hit the Kapija district on May 25, 1995, killed 71 and wounded more than 200 people. At the hearing held on March 3 ballistics expert Vlado Kostic, testifying for the Defence, claimed that there was no way the shell could have caused so many victims.

At the next hearing, due on March 24, Vedo Tuco will be examined.