Speaking to Commander

Witness Ismet Dizdarevic, former member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, said that he was a courier for Serif Patkovic, Commander of the Second Battalion with the Seventh Muslim Brigade of ABiH, in January 1993.
 
He said that an order to undertake an operation in Dusina village came in January 1993, but he did not specify on which date.
 
“A company commanded by Camdzic and a reconnaissance unit with the Second Battalion were deployed to that location,” the witness said.
 
He said that he and Commander Patkovic went toward Dusina village and that they stayed for an hour.
 
“We arrived to Lasva by car. After that we headed towards Dusina accompanied by a guide. We met the Reconnaissance Unit. The Commander spoke to about ten members of that unit,” the witness said.
 
He said that the indictee, who belonged to the same Unit, was not present at that location. Also, he said that he did not know what the Commander and Reconnaissance Unit members spoke about.
 
Dizdarevic said that, on their way back, he “saw Vehid” in Lasva and that the Commander spoke to him as well.
 
“I did not hear their conversation, because my task was to stay away when the Commander spoke to somebody,” Dizdarevic said.
 
The witness said that he neither saw civilians nor corpses in the village.
 
The indictment charges Vehid Subotic, known as Geler, former member of the Second Battalion with the Seventh Muslim Brigade of ABiH, with having intruded Dusina village, accompanied by other members of his Battalion, on January 26, 1993, separated eight Croats, escorted them to a house and ordered other soldiers to kill them.
 
Subotic is on trial for murders of several other Croats in Dusina.
 
The trial is due to continue on June 13.