Srebrenica Prisoners Taken From School to Execution
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The witness, Jovan Milosevic, a former soldier of the Sixth Battalion of the Zvornik Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska, heard that Srebrenica prisoners were taken by buses and trucks to the school, where they were guarded by military policeman and locals.
“How do I know who drove them?” said the witness.
Milosevic said that several days after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, he went to an assignment in the field several dozen kilometres from Petkovci and nearby Djulici, where he lived.
He said that after being in the field for two weeks, he returned and heard stories about the prisoners brought to Petkovci.
“I heard everything, I saw nothing… The stories were told by children, men, women,” said Milosevic.
The witness heard that military policemen who guarded the prisoners were from the Zvornik Brigade, but the Sixth Battalion had no such company in its ranks. He heard that some prisoners from the school were shot at the dam, three kilometres from the house in which he lived at the time, while others were exchanged.
“Who killed them, drove them there, drove them off, I don’t know,” he said, adding that later he heard that “volunteers from other places were doing the killing”.
Stanisic and Milosevic were charged with taking part in crimes committed at the dam in Petkovci, where in July 1995 around 1,000 imprisoned Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica were executed.
According to the indictment, Stanisic was commander of the Sixth Battalion, and Milosevic his deputy.
The prosecutor, Predrag Tomic, showed the witness a document about the engagement of the First Company of the Sixth Battalion in July 1995. According to the document, he was unengaged on July 13, and the prosecutor asked him what he saw in Djulici at his home, to which the witness replied he did not see anything, he did not hear any shooting.
In response to the defence’s questions, the witness said that he did not hear anyone mention Stanisic and Milosevic.
The trial will resume on October 3.
