Klickovic et al.: Summons to The Hague
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The Trial Chamber has ruled that the Defence of Gojko Klickovic is free to examine Radovan Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik “after the summer holidays”, if they agree to testify.
“The Chamber has accepted your proposal and it is not a problem if you want to examine Karadzic and Krajisnik,” said Zoran Bozic, the Chamber’s presiding judge.
Klickovic’s Defence proposed that, pending the approval of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, it should examine Karadzic and Krajisnik, “as the first witnesses after the summer holidays.”
Karadzic and Krajisnik will be questioned about the joint criminal enterprise that, among other things, Gojko Klickovic, Mladen Drljaca and Jovan Ostojic are charged with participating in.
The Prosecution also charges Klickovic, Drljaca and Ostojic with crimes against humanity committed in 1992 against Bosniaks in the territory of Bosanska Krupa.
Karadzic, former president of Republika Srpska, is awaiting trial before the Hague Tribunal for involvement in genocide and other crimes committed during the war in Bosnia. Krajisnik, former Speaker of the Parliament of Republika Srpska, has been sentenced by the Tribunal to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity and participation in a joint criminal enterprise.
At this hearing, Klickovic’s Defence examined Boza Pilipovic, a former member of the Krupa 11th Light Infantry Brigade, who said he was not acquainted with crimes committed against Bosniaks in Krupa, or with the participation of one Joja Plavanjac in the murder of prisoners in the Petar Kocic school in that town.
“I haven’t heard that Plavanjac killed anyone. There were new events which pushed away old ones, so they were never talked about again,” Pilipovic said.
The indictment specifies that in early August 1992, Plavanjac killed several men held captive in the Petar Kocic school.
Pilipovic said that several events from 1991 and 1992 contributed to the beginning of conflict in Krupa, emphasising that an incident with army files caused a “crisis of authority.”
“I remember that part of the files was returned from Buzim to Krupa before the conflict on April 21, 1992. In that period, the authorities could not work properly,” Pilipovic said.
The witness said that in October 1992 he left the Krupa 11th Light Infantry Brigade, resuming his work in the Ministry of Defence of the Serbian Municipality of Bosanska Krupa.
The trial is set to resume on Tuesday, July 7.
