Aggressive Brada

Cordic said that he and Ekrem Baltic were captured as members of the 505th Brigade with the Fifth Corps of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“A man, who was known as Brada, shot at Ekrem. Brada was the most aggressive among them. They asked who our commander was. We did not answer the question. The man called Brada shot at Ekrem, who was leaning on me because he was wounded. Ekrem fell down,” Cordic said.

He said that he begged for life while they were beating him.

“They ordered me to crawl towards a house, where their soldiers and Serb soldiers were situated, I guess. After that they shot at me. They wounded me on my leg and back,” Cordic said.

He said that a Serb soldier, whom they called Legija, saved him. As he said, Legija sent him off in order to have his wounds dressed and threatened the others by saying that they must not harm him in any way.

The Una-Sana Cantonal Prosecution charges Sujelman Mujagic with having killed a captured member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, and wounded another one in the Kumarica region, near Velika Kladusa, in March 1995.

Witness Cordic said that, after having spent two days at a hospital, he was transferred to Drmeljevo detention camp, where he found out that soldier Brada’s name was Sulejman Mujagic.

When asked by the Prosecutor whether any of the persons present in the courtroom reminded him of Brada, the witness pointed towards Mujagic.

Mujagic was arrested in the United States of America in November 2012. He was extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina in late May. He has been held in custody in Bihac since.

During this hearing court expert Miroslav Rakocevic presented his findings, in which he determined that Baltic died due to severe wounds caused by penetration of a bullet.

The trial is due to continue on October 9.