Witness Lived in Dusce

Stanimir Tiridzic said that he used to live in an apartment assigned to him by the company in which he worked in Dusce as of 1980. He pointed out that he knew the neighbours, who lived in a hut in the vicinity of his building.
 
“I know S- 2. She lived there with her father, mother and brother. She lived there before the war,” Tiridzic said, explaining that the hut was ten metres away from his building and that it consisted of five apartments.
 
Witness S-2 testified in absence of public on September 22 this year.
 
Sekaric, former member of the Territorial Defence and “Osvetnik” paramilitary formation, is charged with having participated in an attack on Lozje village, Gorazde municipality, as well as the murders, rape and physical abuse of non-Serb civilians in Visegrad.
 
Witness Tiridzic said that he left is apartment on April 6, 1992 due to is safety and that he went to his father’s house in a village. As he said, a month-and-a-half later he came back to check his apartment. He noticed that somebody had broken into it. He said that the hut was flooded, because of the nearby lake, adding that there was nobody in it.
 
“Murat opened the dam and let the lake out until mid-April. Ten houses, which were located on River Drina banks, were flooded,” the witness said.
 
The trial is due to continue on November 3.