Djelilovic et al: Changing of Statement
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State Prosecution witness Djordje Andric said that he saw indictee Becir Hujic in Silos detention camp three times, although, when he began testifying at a hearing held on May 17, he said he saw him once.
I saw him for the first time as soon as I arrived in Silos and then again, when I asked him to give me medications for detainees. I saw him the third time when I met him and some other men in front of the detention camp. He invited me to his office, while another man gave me a cigarette, the witness said.
When asked by Dusko Tomic, Defence attorney of indictee Nermin Kalember, why he said that Kalember beat professor Vasvo Plakalovic in Silos, because he gave him an F in school some time back, Andric said that he knew that the indictee took him out of the cell, but he did not know if he beat him.
Andric said that it was not true that he said, in 2002, that Kalember hit him with his rifle and cursed him, explaining that it was written down wrongly and added that the indictee did this to a man named Milorad.
The indictment alleges that Mustafa Djelilovic, Fadil Covic, Mirsad Sabic, Nezir Kazic, Becir Hujic, Halid Covic, Serif Mesanovic and Nermin Kalember are charged with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the Silos detention camp and other facilities in Hadzici municipality.
According to the charges, in the period from 1992 to 1996 they participated in a systematic joint criminal enterprise. It is alleged that Kalember was a guard in Silos, while the other indictees were members of civil, military and police authorities in Hadzici.
When asked by Kadrija Kolic, Defence attorney of indictee Nezir Kazic, whether the indictee came, along with other policemen in 1992 in order to confiscate weapons from local residents in Tarcin, as per a decision issued by the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andric said that he knew about the decision and that he handed his weapons over to them.
They treated us in a correct and professional manner, but six men came after they had left and broke everything in our house. They took my brother for an informative interview, witness Djordjic said.
According to the official schedule of trials held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this trial is due to continue on May 31, 2012.
M.B.
