Witness Heard that Indictee Committed Murders

A State Prosecution witness says that he heard after the war that indictee Predrag Prosic, known as Pedo, killed civilians in Hilmo Hegic’s house in Muhici village, Sanski Most municipality.

Ermin Salic recalled the shelling of Muhici village on May 25 or 26, 1992, as well as the events that happened during the following days. The witness said that he was at home with his family during the shelling.
 
“We were sitting in the bathroom. The house was on fire, the walls were hot. There was water beneath our feet. We heard somebody crying in the street,” Salic said, adding that he still found it difficult to explain the horrible situation he was in.
 
The witness said that, one or two days later they went to neighbour Fikret Muhic’s. As he explained, at that moment he saw Vezira Vojnikovic’s mother, who was killed, in her house courtyard. The house was across the street from Hejdic’s houses.
 
“We found something and covered her with it,” the witness said.
 
Vojnikovic testified at this trial in June last year, when she said that the indictee had killed nine civilians in the Sanski Most area.
 
According to the State Prosecution’s charges, Prosic, former member of the Sixth Sana Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, is charged with having participated in a widespread and systematic attack on villages in the Sanski Most area, as well as the persecution, detention, setting houses on fire and murder of non-Serb civilians.
 
Besides that, Prosic is charged with having participated in the persecution of civilians and detention of those civilians in detention facilities in Sanski Most. Some of the male detainees were later transferred to Manjaca detention camp.
 
Witness Salic said that he left Sanski Most in 1992, but he returned to the town after the end of the war. As he said, upon his return, he “heard local residents saying that Prosic committed murders in Hegic’s house.”
 
He said that he had known the indictee from before the war, adding that they “grew up together in Muhica Street”.
 
During this hearing the Prosecution informed the Trial Chamber that it had revised the indictment against Prosic. The Defence of the indictee did not object to the revision, because it considered the changes insignificant in relation to the crime charged upon Prosic.
 
The trial is due to continue on May 10.