Overtaken by Revised Indictment

“Mladjenovic spent a year and 16 days in detention. All of the counts pertaining to the murder of 65 persons in Glogova have been removed from the indictment, because not even one piece of evidence was presented about them. Two new counts related to Glogova have now appeared and charged upon Mladjenovic,” said Dejan Bogdanovic, Mladjenovic’s Defence attorney.
 
He said that this represented an expansion of the indictment, which now mentioned new events, adding that it was not allowed to do it.
 
Also, Bogdanovic requested the Court to terminate the prohibiting measures against indictee Mladjenovic following such a revision of the indictment.
 
“That is the most humane thing we can do after this,” Bogdanovic said.
 
Mladjenovic and Savo Zivkovic are charged with having participated in attacks on Hranca and Glogova villages in May 1992, when several tens of civilians were killed and their property was pillaged and set on fire. The indictment alleges that Mladjenovic was Commander of the Territorial Defence and Zivkovic was member of that unit.
 
Nenad Rubez, Defence attorney of indictee Zivkovic, said that the indictment was now “complicated and incomprehensible”.
 
At this hearing the State Prosecution included several pieces of material evidence in the case file. Those documents refer to the death of three men in Bratunac. It was said that court expert Vedo Tuco used the evidence when preparing his findings and opinion.
 
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is due to present its closing statement on January 28.