Body Removed in Bag from Prison

Zivko Malesevic, who was working as a police officer in Kotor Varos in July 1992, said that prison was located in building behind the court and that non-Serb prisoners were there.

“I often went to prison near the court privately, so that I could carry food and cigarettes to prisoners that I knew,” Malesevic said, stating that six or seven men were brought there “from the trench, with guns”.

According to his words, prisoners were questioned by the special police, headed by certain Slobodan Dubovcanin. Dubovcanin, as witness said, was subordinate to Zdravko Pejic, member of state security service.

“The next day I saw the KV-13 and one other man carrying a body of some Cirkin in a bag. He was big,” witness said, adding that was one of the people who were examined the day before by special unit, while others from the group had visible bruises.

Sava Tepic, Dusko Vujicic, Dragoslav Bojic, Dusko Maksimovic, Radojko Keverovic, Rade Skoricu and Ilija Kurusic are tried for crimes in Kotor Varos.

They are charged with participating in detention, torture and other inhuman acts against Bosniaks and Croats in 1992.

According to the indictment, Tepic was the chief of the police station in Kotor Varos and a member of the Crisis Staff in the municipality, Bojic was the commander of the police station, Vujicic was a police officer, Maksimovic, Skoric and Keverovic were reservist policemen, while Kurusic was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army.

Responding to the questions of Tepic’s defence attorney, witness Malesevic said that members of special unit behaved arrogantly and that police officers or prison guards couldn’t do anything about them.

During the cross examination Malesevic said that Dusko Vujacic had nickname Dule, and that he never heard that they called him “Vojvoda”, and claimed he never killed nobody at Kotor Varos.

Dragomir Markovic, who worked as an inspector at Public Safety Center in Banja Luka at 1992, gave his statement at this hearing. He described organizational structure of Public Safety Center, as well as relations regarding the jurisdiction over territorial public security stations.

“In case of serious criminal offense Public Safety Serivce informs investigative judge, police commander, commander of criminal police and the Chief of Public Safety Center”, witness said.

Defence objected the relevance of this witness who “doesn’t know anything about the events in Kotor Varos”.

The trial resumes on October 27.