Kornjaca et al: Husband murdered

Fadila Dzambegovic recalled during her testimony before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina that in 1992 she travelled with her children to Sarajevo, while her husband remained in Cajnice, after which he was captured and murdered. She said that she learnt about the fate of her husband from his mother who was in Cajnice at the time.

“All the prisoners were taken to Mostina. There was a Hunting Lodge there and all of them were executed in there. My mother-in-law told me all this in July 1992. She said that neighbours had taken away the Dzambegovic family,” the witness said.

Dzambegovic added that a grave was discovered at Mostina where her husband was exhumed.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charged Milun Kornjaca, Milorad Zivkovic and Dusko Tadic with the expulsion of Bosniaks from Cajnice, as well as the murder of 11 civilians on May 19, 1992, at Mostina.

The indictment specifies that Kornjaca was a former commander of the Blue Eagles paramilitaries, Tadic was a former member of the unit, and Zivkovic, the former head of the police station in Cajnice and member of the crisis headquarters of the municipality of Cajnice.

Mithat Gabela, the second witness for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that his shoe repair shop in downtown Cajnice was blown up in late February 1992.

Gabela, who at the time lived in Gorazde, said that after the explosion he came over to Cajnice, gave a statement to the police, but that he did not learn who set up the explosives in his shop.

“I did not dare go back any more, because I was afraid someone was going to kill me,” said Gabela.

Dzevad Muratbegovic, the prosecutor for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the hearing read the statement from deceased Salko Causevic, given to the Cantonal Court in Gorazde in 2004 in the case against Dusko Tadic.

The statement, which was read, among others, specifies that Tadic took part in his capture and taking to Mostina. Causevic, it was said in his statement, heard about the massacre in Mostina at the time.

The trial was scheduled to resume on January 13, 2012.