Bosnian Serb ‘Jailer’ Spotted at Bratunac School Prison

A protected witness codenamed ‘S-1’ told Babic’s trial on Monday that he had seen the defendant at the Vuk Karadzic primary school in Bratunac in May 1992, where over 400 civilian prisoners are said to have been held – several dozen of whom were murdered or died due to bad conditions.“The first time Savo came with [local Bosnian Serb political leader] Goran Zekic, who threatened us, and the second time he came to inform us that we were going to be exchanged [as part of a prisoner exchange],” said S-1.Babic is charged, as commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s military police in Bratunac, with ordering, committing and failing to prevent the imprisonment of non-Serb civilians in the school in May 1992.Another witness who testified on Monday, Milenko Prodanovic, said that he saw Babic in Bratunac when people from nearby villages were being brought to the town’s stadium as prisoners.“Everything happening in Bratunac was under the control of the military police of the Yugoslav People’s Army. I did not hear that Babic was deciding the fate of people [detained] in the school, but the [Bosnian Serb Army’s] crisis headquarters headed by Miroslav Deronjic,” said Prodanovic.The Hague Tribunal sentenced Deronjic to ten years in prison in 2003, after he admitted being responsible for the deaths of over 60 Muslims from the village of Glogova in May 1992.Babic’s trial will resume on September 2.