Saric: Transporting Neighbours from Nahorevo
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Goran said that something was going on, so we went to the pavilion. When we got there, we saw between 20 and 30 people, who were lined up. They got onto a truck. (…) When we came, I think that Boban stayed with them, witness Petar Pavlovic Malesic, describing the taking of men to the Bunker detention camp in Vogosca.
As he said, the taking of civilians, who were detained in a pavilion within the Jagomir hospital complex, was organised by the military command, whose representatives were present at the time, as far as he can remember.
Although he did not know at the time that he was a member of the reserve police forces, the witness said that his superiors were Slavko Milinkovic, known as Boban, and Goran Saric, whom he had known from before the war as commander of police in Marijin Dvor.
Saric, former Chief of the Public Safety Station in the Serb municipality of Centar, is charged with having ordered all men from Nahorevo to come to the local community premises on June 19, 1992. About 100 Bosniaks were then taken away and detained in Jagomir hospital building.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Saric with having divided prisoners in Jagomir into three groups on June 21, 1992. He formed a group of 60 people, who were forcibly relocated to Sarajevo, another group of 26 Bosniaks, who were transferred to the Bunker detention camp in Vogosca and a third group of 11 persons, who were later killed in the Skakavac area.
Witness Pavlovic Malesic confirmed that he transported his Bosniak neighbours to barricades and that they went towards the city by foot from there.
There are few Serbs who did not transport at least one of their neighbours, Malesic said.
Miso Grujic, another former reserve policeman, participated in the transport of Bosniaks from Nahorevo to the division line too. He told the Court that Saric or Milinkovic instructed him to do that.
Speaking about the arrest of Djulaga Pandzic, the witness said that he went to his house, along with Dragan Colic, and that they found bombs and a military radio station.
As he said, they drove Djulaga to the Police Station, when a person called Kupres appeared. He took the man away, while the witness and Colic stayed there in order to unload about 50 bombs at the station.
In his previous statements the witness said that Colic and Kupres were members of the police forces, but, at the hearing today he said that Colic was a military policeman, while Kupres was not a member of the police, but he associated with men from Serbia.
Although he had never mentioned it before, Grujic said that he saw Pandzic in front of his house two days later and that he heard that he was taken away later on and eventually killed.
The trial is due to continue on Monday, September 17.
M.T.
