Kuvelja: Disappearance of Srebrenica Residents

He said that those people were then detained in the Co-operative warehouse and shot a short time later.

As Markovic told investigators, the shooting of prisoners began in the evening hours on July 13 and continued on the following day. As he said, after that they began loading the corpses onto trucks.

Besides that, Prosecutor Bulic read a summary of a statement given by the late Camila Omanovic, who testified before The Hague Tribunal.

During her testimony she said that she saw the separation of men in Potocari and that the men were then taken to a white house, where they left their personal belongings. She said that they “disappeared” afterwards.

The Prosecution also presented a statement given by late Miroslav Deronjic, who testified, before The Hague Tribunal, at the trial against seven officers with the Republika Srpska Army and police, including Ljubisa Beara, former Chief of Security with the VRS Main Headquarters.

In his statement Deronjic said that Beara told him to “take” the Srebrenica residents, who were detained in Bratunac, to a warehouse he had seen “on the outskirts of Bratunac”.

In July 2005, after having admitted guilt, Deronjic, former President of the Crisis Committee in Bratunac, was sentenced to ten years in prison for crimes against humanity in Glogova village, near Bratunac in May 1992.
The Trial Chamber admitted these pieces of evidence, as well as transcripts of other witnesses’ statements.

Kerim Celik, Defence attorney of Kuvelja, requested the Court to let him cross-examine three witnesses. The Trial Chamber will render a decision concerning the request at a later stage.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Kuvelja, former member of the Jahorina Training Centre with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, MUP of RS, with having participated in the shooting of more than 1,000 men in the Agricultural Co-operative in Kravica in July 1995.

The trial is due to continue on August 21.