Disarming the Muslim Population
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Witness Dragoslav Trisic, who was Chief of Headquarters of the Territorial Defence in Bratunac in 1992, said that “the situation was on the edge of conflict” in April that year and that the relations between Muslims and Serbs were tense.
According to the witness, paramilitary formations arrived in Bratunac on April 17. He said that they participated in the disarming of the Muslim population.
“Members of the Territorial Defence in Bratunac did not participate in that directly, but they were close and, by being present, they marked the villages, which should be disarmed,” Trisic said.
Mladjenovic is on trial, along with Savo Zivkovic with the unlawful arrest and abuse of civilians during an attack on Hranca and Glogova villages in May 1992. According to the charges, Mladjenovic was Commander of the Territorial Defence in Bratunac and Savo Zivkovic was a member of that Unit at the time.
Witness Trisic said that fire was opened from firearms in Hranca on May 3 and that people were sent to the village in order to check what was going on.
“We sent the Anti-reconnaissance Squad to check what was happening, but, by the time they arrived in Hranca, the whole thing had stopped,” the witness said.
Witness Marko Blagojevic dealt with logistical issues at the Territorial Defence Headquarters in Bratunac during 1992.
He said that weapons arrived in May 1992, but he was not able to remember whether it had arrived just before May 3.
“An officer distributed the weapons, but I cannot remember who gave him the list,” Blagojevic said.
The trial is due to continue on July 16.
