Visegrad Residents Departure Lists

Ljube Tesevic told the Court that he worked with the Red Cross during the war, adding that he performed accountant’s tasks and helped distribute aid. He said that it was known to him that Fahra Hoso was the Red Cross Secretary and that she made lists of people, who would leave the town.

“The convoys were organised via the Red Cross. All of the organisational activities were undertaken by Fahra. People applied for departure. The Red Cross was located in the downtown area, which was always crowded with people…” Tesevic said.

He said that it was not known to him whether anybody else, except Fahra, was dealing with applications for departure.

“She said that she made those lists and handed them over to the Internal Affairs Secretariat, SUP,” Tesic said, adding that he did not know how many convoys had left the town and that he did not attend their departures.

Tasic is charged, along with Predrag Milisavljevic and Milos Pantelic, with having participated together with other armed members of the Serb Army and police in the forced resettlement of Bosniaks on June 14, 1992.

The indictment alleges that Tasic was member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, while Milisavljevic and Milos Pantelic were reserve policemen with the Public Safety Station in Visegrad.

Testifying in defence of Tasic, second witness Dobrivoje Stanovjevic, former Local Community Secretary in Visegrad, told the Court that some of the local residents approached him because they wanted to leave the town, but he referred them to the Red Cross Secretary.

“I was not involved in those convoys. She was the one who wrote down citizens’ names and made lists. I do not know if anybody else was involved in it,” Stanovjevic said.

The trial is due to continue on April 1.