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At the status conference before the Trial Chamber presided over by Saban Maksumic, prosecutor Vesna Budimir said she intended to call 58 witnesses, 14 of them protected.
She said that the Prosecution planned to enter around 270 exhibits into evidence.
Dzeko’s lawyer Vasvija Vidovic could not declare anything about the defence’s evidence at this stage of the process.
Dzeko, a former soldier of the Zulfikar Special Purposes Detachment with the Headquarters of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH), was charged with taking part, together with other soldiers, in the execution of members of the Croatian Defence Council who had surrendered as well as civilians in the attack on the village of Trusina on April 16, 1993.
He is also charged with crimes committed in Jablanica in the second half of 1993, when he took part in the illegal arrest of nine Croat civilians from Jablanica and their imprisonment in the underground storage area of the Rogica kuca.
One count of the indictment specifies that, in the Rogica kuca complex, where the Zulfikar detachment was stationed, he ordered his fellow soldiers to beat a soldier with planks, cement blocks and submerge his head in the barrel full of water. The accused, it is said, was telling them: “Kill him, kill him!”
Dzeko was extradited from the United State in late 2011 and he has been remanded in custody ever since.
