Reconnaissance Team Taking a Child with Them
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“We heard shooting, which lasted between five and ten minutes. Then it stopped. An hour later those men were bringing the child with them,” witness Dragan Cacic, indictee Dragisa Cacic’s nephew, said. The witness said that he did not notice blood on the boy’s body.
According to the Eastern Sarajevo District Prosecution’s charges, Dragisa Cacic, Milenko Cacic and Vojo Motika, former members of the Military Post in Rogatica, killed one person and wounded a child in the vicinity of Starcici village on August 8, 1992.
Witness Goran Kozic said that he was present when the boy was shown in which direction he had to go in order to reach the territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the indictees were not present when the boy was released.
Witness Risto Planincic said that Milenko Cacic did not participate in escorting the boy.
“The Commander said that a group of soldiers would come in order to survey the area in front of the division line. The group returned two or three hours later. At that moment I personally saw them bringing the child with them,” said Risto Planincic, first witness of Milenko Cacic’s Defence.
He said that the child was then released.
“This goes to show that we are a pacific group of people. None of us even touched the little boy,” Planincic said, adding that he found out after the war that the boy’s father “was killed”.
Momir Obradovic and Radomir Janjic told the Court that they were in the same trench with indictee Milenko Cacic on Palez Hill, when the event happened in Starcici.
They said that the Cacics were in the trenches to the right and left from them.
Testifying at this hearing, witness Mustafa Frljak, officer with the State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, confirmed that he took statements from Hasan, Meho and Muharem Dzananovic in 2009 and that they did not have any objections to what was written in those statements.
The trial is due to continue on February 10.
