Murder of a Boy from Srebrenica

The witness, who was assigned the pseudonym SM-106, told the Court that he heard a gunshot and then saw a man named Srecko, who, as said at the trial, was “a military school student”.
 
The boy, who told him that he was born in 1980 and that he was from Srebrenica, was dumped into a hole along with bodies of other killed people.
 
The witness said that he came to the dam, accompanied by a few other people, because he heard shooting on the previous night. The witness said that, upon his arrival to the dam, he saw corpses, some people and a dredger, which had dug the hole.
 
“They dumped the dead, killed people into it,” he said, adding that he saw tens of corpses around the hole and on a nearby meadow.
 
The witness said that he did not know who ordered the murders.
 
The protected witness testified at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, who are charged with having participated in the crime on the dam, near Petkovci, where about 1,000 captured Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica were executed.
 
The indictment alleges that Stanisic was Commander of the Sixth Battalion with the Zvornik Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, whose base was in Petkovci village, and Milosevic was his Deputy.
 
The witness said that he did not know the indictees. As he said, while he was on the dam, he saw a human hand, which he then dumped into the hole. According to his testimony, several men from Srebrenica helped others dump the killed persons into the hole.
 
The witness said that Jovo Lazic, who, as he heard, was some commander and was later killed, was present at that location as well. He said that Lazic did not order those men what to do. He said that, following the murder of the boy, Lazic was angry at a man named Srecko, so he slapped him. He said that he threatened him, telling him that he would be beaten up in the evening.
 
The witness told the Court that he heard from Drago Jovic that, prior to being brought to the dam, the captives had been detained in a new school building in Petkovci and that local residents of Petkovci, Kozluk and some other villages participated in the murders.
 
The witness said that he told him that the men from Srebrenica, who helped them dump the bodies into the hole, were killed as well. He said that this person was inclined to consuming alcohol and lying.
 
The second protected State Prosecution witness, who was assigned the pseudonym SM-104, said that his mother told him that she saw several killed people near the Centre in Petkovci in mid-July 1995. 
 
“She saw four or five killed men and left,” SM-104 said.
 
According to the witness, Jovo Lazic was member of the Battalion from Petkovci. Both witnesses testified in a separate cabin with their voices being altered.