Finding out about Crime from the Media
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Witness Bozo Tesevic, former member of the Public Safety Station in Visegrad, said that he had never heard that Predrag Milisavljevic participated in the execution of Bosniaks.
“I found out about this proceeding from the media. I learned about his arrest from evening news,” Tesevic said.
The witness said that he had never seen Milisavljevic arresting people, adding that reserve policemen could not have examined the arrested persons.
“I did not see Milisavljevic arresting anybody, be it Serbs or Muslims,” Tesevic said, adding that Milisavljevic could not have had contacts with the arrested people and that those people were examined by crime inspectors.
Milisavljevic is charged, along with Milos Pantelic and Ljubomir Tasic, with having participated in murders, forced resettlement of the population, detention, torture, forced disappearances and other inhumane acts.
According to the charges, Milisavljevic and Pantelic participated in the murder of several tens of Bosniak civilians near the Paklenik pit. The indictment alleges that Milisavljevic and Pantelic, former members of reserve police forces in Visegrad, and Tasic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, committed those crimes from April to June 1992.
Witness Tesevic recalled having participated in escorting a convoy of Bosniak civilians from Visegrad, but he was not able to say whether he had heard about the convoy, whose passengers had been killed, before that. He said that there were several convoys and that the Red Cross made lists of people, who wanted to leave Visegrad.
Tesevic told the Court that Milisavljevic was first member of reserve police forces and then member of a Special Squad of VRS.
Responding to a question by Trial Chamber Chairwoman Vesna Jasenkovic, the witness said that both active and reserve policemen participated in escorting the convoys.
The trial is due to continue on February 4.
