Director’s Findings about Murders

State Prosecution witness Jovan Ivanovic said that he became the Director of “Birac” in mid-1994, but he did not visit the dam, which was within the factory complex, during the war.

The witness agreed with Prosecutor Predrag Tomic that the “Birac” Factory had a strategic importance. The witness was presented with two photographs of the dam, but the witness did not recognise anything on them.

“The dam was not something that could be endangered in any way,” the witness said.

Ivanovic said that the Factory had construction machines, which the Army used for its needs and that he did not have to be informed about it in advance.

When asked whether anybody addressed him regarding the digging on the dam, the witness said: “I did not know that any works were performed there.”

Testifying at the previous hearings, the witnesses said that construction machines dug holes on the dam in which killed Srebrenica residents were buried.

Stanisic and Milosevic are on trial for having killed about 1,000 Srebrenica residents on a dam, near Petkovci, in mid-July 1995. The indictment alleges that the prisoners were transported from a school building to the dam.

According to the charges, Stanisic was the Commander of the Sixth Battalion of Zvornik Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, while Milosevic was his Deputy.

The trial is due to continue on Wednesday, October 1.