Jevic et al: One Hundred Pieces of Material Evidence
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Among them were documents about the indictees’ involvement in the police force, decorations they received in 1993 and numerous combat reports made by military and police bodies in July 1995, including a report made by Ljubomir Borovcanin about the entrance into Potocari.
“He said that the UN Base was blocked on July 12, between 25 and 30 thousand people were there, out of which five per cent were able-bodied men, and the evacuation was underway,” Prosecutor Ibro Bulic said.
“‘I urgently instructed our forces to block the road between Kravica and Konjevic polje. The enemy had more than 200 casualties. About 1,500 Muslims soldiers have surrendered to us. According to the estimates, there are between five and six thousand more,” Prosecutor Bulic said, quoting Borovcanin’s report.
The Hague Tribunal sentenced Borovcanin to 17 years in prison for crimes committed in Srebrenica. He commanded the joint forces of the Republika Srpska police during the operation conducted in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Dusko Jevic, Mendeljev Djuric, known as Mane, Goran Markovic and Nedjo Ikonic are charged with having participated in the forcible resettlement of the population from Srebrenica area, and the shooting of more than 1,000 Bosniak captives in Kravica.
The indictment alleges that Jevic was Commander of the Police Training Centre on Mount Jahorina, Djuric and Ikonic were company commanders and Markovic was a squad commander with that unit.
The Prosecutor introduced 15 witness statements given before the Hague Tribunal, including a statement given by Lee Van Duijn, former Company Commander with the Dutch Battalion stationed in Potocari.
“I noticed that they were separating men from the others. Mane told me that it should be checked whether any war criminals were among them… Mane returned on July 13 and conducted the same procedure of transport and separation. I asked him why they were taking their passports away. Mane said that they would no longer need them,” the Prosecutor said, quoting Van Duijn.
Other members of the Dutch Battalion and Momir Nikolic and Dragan Obrenovic, who testified after pleading guilty, were among the witnesses whose statements given before the Hague Tribunal were included in the case file.
Nikolic, former Assistant Commander for Security with the Bratunac Brigade, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, while Obrenovic, former Chief of Headquarters with the Zvornik Brigade, was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
At the next hearing, scheduled for Thursday, March 31, the Prosecutor will introduce the remaining statements. The Defence will then present any objections to the material evidence.
