A Boy Fled from Kravica

“While I was in the hangar, Serb soldiers took men out several times. They would line them against the wall and shoot them,” said protected witness SG-12, who was captured, while trying to reach the Tuzla area through the woods with his father on July 11, 1995.
 
He said that he was not the only boy held in the hangar.
 
“My friend Nermin Mukic was wounded on his leg, when a burst of fire was opened at him in front of the hangar. Another soldier then asked the one, who shot him, why he had wounded the child. They took him away in order to dress his wound. I have never seen him again,” the witness said.
 
Saric, former Commander of the Special Police Brigade, is charged with having issued an order to police members to guard the road between Bratunac and Konjevic Polje and capture Srebrenica residents, who were walking through the woods, trying to reach the territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH.
 
According to the charges, members of the Special Police Brigade then participated in escorting several hundreds of captives to the Agricultural Co-operative in Kravica, where they killed them.
 
Witness SG-12 said that, after having been ordered to go and bring a bottle of water, he used the opportunity and ran away.
 
“I took a bottle and went to the river. When I got there, I saw a 16-year old girl, who was slaughtered. Blood was splashing and her hand was shaking. I felt as if I lost my mind. I said to myself: ‘What are you doing here?’” the witness said.
 
He mentioned that he fled to Burnice village, where he saw about 500 other people from Srebrenica. Sometime later Serb soldiers captured all of them, tied them with wire and escorted them to Konjevic Polje. 
 
“We arrived at a meadow. They forced us to lie down. Other corpses had already been there. Somebody lied on top of a corpse. They opened fire, but they did not shoot anyone on that occasion,” the witness said.
 
According to the witness’ testimony, other boys, who were in the group of captured men, were transferred by buses, as per an order by Mico Gavric from Bratunac, to a Serb Army’s military barracks, where they were examined.
 
“We stood in front of the barracks, when trucks brought other captives. A soldier asked where to take those men. Another soldier told him to take them to ‘Vuk Karadzic’ school,” the witness said, adding that he was then transferred, along with the other boys, from Bratunac to Zvornik and then to territories controlled by the Army of BiH.
 
The trial is due to continue on September 8.