Kill the Civilians

Witness Tahira Muminovic said, at the trial of Najdan Mladjenovic and Savo Zivkovic, that she lived in Adzici hamlet with her husband and two small children. When police forces came to the village and confiscated her father-in-law’s hunting rifle, she went to her neighbour Aziz with her children in the evening of May 8, 1992.
“In the morning hours on May 9 our neighbour woke us up and said that Glogova was burning. After that four or five soldiers came by and told us to come out, because they would set the houses on fire,” Muminovic said, adding that her house was set on fire on that day as well. According to the witness’ testimony, women and children were forced to go to a neighbour’s field, where they were guarded by “a man dressed in civilian suit”.

“A couple of soldiers came from the direction of Bratunac. I heard that others called one of them Najdan. He had a stocking over his face. He stepped out of the group, approached us and said: ‘All these should be killed’. He then left with the other soldiers,” the witness said.
Muminovic told the Court that buses from Bratunac came by at that moment. The bus driver said that whoever wanted to go to the free territory could get on the bus, so the women and children then left Glogova. Najdan Mladjenovic and Savo Zivkovic are charged with having unlawfully arrested and abused Bosniak civilians during an attack on Hranca and Glogova villages, Bratunac municipality, on May 3 and 9, 1992. At that time Mladjenovic was Commander of the Territorial Defence in Bratunac, while Zivkovic was member of that unit.
The trial is due to continue on April 23.