Srebrenica Genocide Trial Witness Threatened
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The protected prosecution witness, a former soldier at the Bosnian Serb Armys main headquarters who was testifying under the code name SM-102, said that he gave incriminating testimony about a 1995 massacre of prisoners from Srebrenica because he was threatened by an investigator from Bosnias State Investigation and Protection Agency.
He accused investigator Bajro Kulovac of threatening him and telling him what to say. “I got scared,” the witness said. “I have been waiting to come to court and complain,” he added.
SM-102 had originally told investigators that he heard gunshots during a massacre at a dam near the village of Petkovci, where around 1,000 prisoners from Srebrenica were murdered in July 1995.
But when asked about the incident at the trial on Wednesday, the witness said he saw “nothing”.
He was testifying at the trial of former Serb fighters Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, accused of involvement in the killings at Petkovci.
The witness also said that he did not know which Bosnian Serb unit was operating in Petkovci, and that he did not see Stanisic or Milosevic there.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency has so far not commented on the witness’s allegations.
The trial continues on April 9.
