Local Justice – Markovic: Transporting Food

Defence witnesses Slobodan Kosoric, Milivoje Solaja, Milos Maric and Miroslav Paunic said that they had known the indictee before the war and that they used to see him in the Grbavica area, where they were deployed as soldiers, during the war.The District Prosecution of Eastern Sarajevo charges Markovic, former member of a VRS unit in Han Pijesak, with having beaten up and physically abused detained civilians in Sokolac municipality from June 1992 to March 1993.“Milan Markovic and I served in the same Brigade. I used to see him every day in 1992. I used to see 85 percent of unit members on a daily basis. Markovic was a driver. He could drive a military vehicle. We could take leave of absence for a couple of days,” witness Kosoric said.Witnesses Solaja, Maric and Paunic said that they belonged to the same Brigade as the indictee, who used to transport food.“I was in Sarajevo, just like Markovic, in 1992 and 1993. We were in Grbavica. I remember well that Markovic was in charge of transporting food. He was a driver,” Paunic said.The District Prosecution presented a few pieces of material evidence. Prosecutor Mirza Hukeljic said that he presented those pieces of evidence in order to prove the existence of an armed conflict.The trial is due to continue on November 1. A.S.