All Soldiers Put on Alert

Witness Zlatimir Nikolic, former member of the Sixth Battalion with the Zvornik Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, said that he went to military positions above Petkovci village on July 9 or 10 and that he stayed there for ten days.
“While I was on the front line, I heard that Srebrenica had fallen,” the witness said.
Nikolic said that, following the fall of Srebrenica on July 11,they received an order, saying that all soldiers should be “put on alert in full capacity”, because an attack from the direction of Tuzla and Srebrenica was expected.
The witness said that company commanders informed him that some prisoners had been brought and accommodated in the new school building in Petkovci, adding that they said, later on, that they were transported out of the village.
As he said, a month later some men told him that some prisoners had been killed on the dam.
Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic are charged with having participated in crimes committed on the Petkovci dam, where about 1,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica, who had been captured, were executed in July 1995.
The indictment alleges that Stanisic was Commander of the Sixth Battalion, while Milosevic was his Deputy. The witness confirmed this as well.
Nikolic said that an attack on the positions was conducted and that Deputy Commander Milosevic was wounded in that attack, but he was not able to confirm whether the attack happened on July 14.
A new Prosecution witness is due to be examined at the next hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 10.