Mistaken Identity Alleged at Bosnian Soldiers Trial
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The defence witnesses, Nehru Manjusak and Branislav Manigoda, told the court on Tuesday that Dzeko never participated in war crimes during the early 1990s conflict.
Dzeko is charged with the beatings and torture of Croat prisoners in the town of Jablanica in the second half of 1993, as well as well as ordering three soldiers to beat up a detainee in the Rogica Kuce detention centre. He is also on trial for murders in the village of Trusina near Konjic in April 1993.
But Manjusak, a fellow member of the Bosnian Armys Zulfikar unit, said there could have been a case of mistaken identity because there was also a commander known as Dzeki at Rogica Kuce.
He looked like our Dzeko, only he wore a hat. Without the hat, someone could have mistaken them. People often mixed up Dzeki and Dzeko, said the witness.
The other witness, former Bosnian Army military police officer Manigoda, said that Dzeko, who was the best man at his wedding, was always nice, kind, ready to help, and that he never heard about him harassing anyone.
The trial will resume on October 8.
