Jevic et al: “Bus conductor Game” in Potocari

Tomislav Krstovic, former Commander of a squad with the Training Center on Mount Jahorina, continued his testimony on Monday, explaining that he heard members of “the special police unit from Zvornik” say that valuables had been taken away from male Bosniaks in Potocari.

“I do not know if they were members of the first or second company, but they said they had played a bus conductor game, which means they searched the prisoners again and took their money. They said that they told the prisoners: ‘Come on, empty your pockets again’,” the witness recalled.

Krstovic began his testimony at the trial of Dusko Jevic, Mendeljev Djuric, Goran Markovic and Nedjo Ikonic on December 6.

The Prosecution charges the four former members of the Jahorina Training Center with the Special Police Brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, MUP RS, with having participated in the forcible resettlement of people from the Srebrenica area and the murder of more than 1,000 Bosniak men at the Kravica Agricultural Cooperative.

The indictment alleges that Jevic was Commander of the Center, Djuric and Ikonic were company commanders and Markovic was a squad commander.

Krstovic said that, upon their return from the field to Jahorina, some members of the Training Center “had rather large quantities of money”. He said that Nedjo Milidragovic, a former squad commander, was one of them.

“I heard rumours that some of them, and particularly him, had taken money away from those people,” the witness said.

This witness recalled again the search of terrain they conducted in July 1995, when two Bosniaks were captured, and Milidragovic’s participation in it.

“Milidragovic and the two men stopped briefly, while we moved on. About 10 or 15 minutes later we heard gunshots… I cannot confirm that he killed them, because I did not personally see that. I heard rumours that he had done it,” Krstovic said.

Responding to questions posed by Djuric’s Defence, the witness confirmed having seen the second indictee standing next to a bus in Potocari, adding he also saw him in Kravica, when he had deployed them to points alongside the road.

“We were ordered to guard the road. The order was not changed,” the witness said.

Krstovic’s testimony was interrupted at the request by Markovic’s Defence attorney, because the Defence had not received a copy of a statement the witness gave to State Prosecution investigators in May 2009. The Prosecutor was also not aware of the statement.

During the course of a short break, he confirmed the statement existed. The examination of this witness was therefore postponed until December 16.