Kornjaca et al: Milun’s Reservists
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Imsirovic said that her neighbours informed her that “a catastrophe happened at Mostina”, adding that, while she was in a drug store, she heard that Milun Kornjaca wanted to kill drivers, who worked at the Dispensary.
“After the windows had been broken, Milun crashed into the building in order to slaughter them, but they ran away by jumping through the window,” Imsirovic said, adding that her neighbours told her that some Muslims had been taken to Mostina, but she did not see who had taken them.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Milun Kornjaca, Milorad Zivkovic, known as Zika, and Dusko Tadic, known as Rus, with the persecution of Bosniaks from the Cajnice area and the murder of 11 civilians at Mostina on May 19, 1992.
The indictment alleges that Kornjaca was Commander of the “Plavi orlovi” (“Blue Eagles”) paramilitary unit, Zivkovic was Chief of the Public Safety Station in Cajnice and Tadic was a member of the “Plavi orlovi”.
During her testimony Imsirovic said that, after having left Cajnice in May 1992, she had never seen her husband and son again. She said that, while she was in Pljevlja, a neighbour told her that her son had been killed in Jelah village, Cajnice municipality.
“My husband went missing at the beginning of the war. We have never found him,” Imsirovic said, adding that her son’s body was exhumed in 2002. The witness said that she did not know who killed her son or who was responsible for her husband’s disappearance.
Imsirovic told the Court that it was known to her that indictee Milun Kornjaca, whom she recognised in the courtroom, trained reservists in late 1991. “I heard shooting in October 1991. A neighbour told me that Kornjaca was training his reservists,” she said.
The witness said that she watched members of the Serbian Army being lined in front of the Cultural Centre in Cajnice in March or April 1992. “Milun Kornjaca was the first in the line. He was in front of everybody else. I saw Zivkovic among them too. I knew him as a decent gentleman,” Imsirovic said.
The witness pointed out that she had never been back to Cajnice after May 19, 1992.
The trial is due to continue on November 21 this year.
