About the Investigation in Dretelj in 1993
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The witness told the Mostar Cantonal Court that he took a statement from Vulic after the shooting.
“A policeman informed me that shooting happened in the hangar and that Frano was shooting. A short time later, policemen brought Frano to my office in order to give a statement about those events,” Polunic said.
He said that he included Vulic’s words, exactly as he said them, in the statement, which he then forwarded to Commander Kresimir Bogdanovic for further processing.
When asked by the Defence attorney who gave him the order to take a statement from Vulic, Polunic said that he the Commander gave him an oral order.
The witness said that he did not remember what Vulic told him, but the statement was available in writing.
The indictment charges Vulic, former member of military police with the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, in Capljina, with having shot at three Bosniak detainees through a hangar window in Dretelj detention camp on July 14, 1993 and killed them.
Zlatko Dugandzic, court expert in criminal issues, presented his opinion about a criminal graphological analysis of the disputable indictee’s signature on the statement he gave on July 14, 1993. The expert determined that Vulic did sign the document.
Court medicine expert Hamza Zujo said that the bodies of Izet and Hasan Duvnjak were buried in three plastic bags and that they were in the phase of an extremely high decay, so it was not possible to determine the cause of death.
“It could be determined that Omer Duvnjak died a violent death, because the top skull bones and skull basis, lower and upper jaws and the first and second neck vertebras were destroyed by a bullet fired from fire arms,” Zujo explained.
Bosko Buntic, former member of an investigator team with HVO’s military police in Capljina and, as of May 1993, in Dretelj too, testified at this hearing as well.
He said that he was not present in the detention camp, when the three members of Duvnjak family were wounded, and that he had not received any reports about the mentioned event.
The trial is due to continue on October 7.
