Indictee not Ready to Testify
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The witness, who was due to testify in defence of indictee Buljubasic, failed to appear before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH. The Trial Chamber said that it would issue a warrant to apprehend him to the next hearing.
Although Trial Chamber Chairwoman Enida Hadziomerovic told the indictee, at the last hearing, to prepare for his testimony, Buljubasic did not want to testify today.
“I have prepared for that witness. I am not able to testify now,” indictee Buljubasic said.
The former member of the Croatian Defence Forces, HOS, is on trial, along with Ivan Zelenika, Srecko Herceg, Ivan Medic and Marina Grubisic-Fejzic, for having committed crimes in Dretelj, Capljina municipality, in 1992.
The Prosecution of BiH alleges that all of the indictees participated in forcing detainees to perform hard labour and torturing them. Several people died due to consequences of the abuse.
The Prosecution alleges that Zelenika was a HOS officer, Herceg was Commander of Dretelj, Buljubasic was Deputy Commander of the military barracks in Dretelj, while Medic and Grubisic-Fejzic were former guards.
The trial is due to continue on July 8.
