Injured Party’s Medical Records Missing

Acting on an order issued by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, at a request by the Prosecution of BiH, investigator Mirko Simonjic had the task to go to the local dispensary in Kotor-Varos and take medical records for witness S-4 in order to use them temporarily.

“The records were arranged in alphabetical order. Medical records for injured party S-4 were not found where it should have been. A record that was supposed to be before it was missing too,” Simonjic said, adding that he found the injured party’s childhood records, but the main record was not there.

Simonjic, who began testifying on October 28, repeated that conversations between the indictees and, as indicated by the Prosecution of BiH, with Mirko Bozic, who would testify for the Prosecution in this case, were intercepted.

“During the telephone conversations it was discovered that Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic, as well as Mirko Bozic, made agreements regarding the testimony. Besides that, physical following was organised in the ‘Pecina’ café in Banja Luka,” Simonjic said.

The Prosecution of BiH charges Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic, former members of Kotor-Varos Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having raped a minor in Kotor-Varos municipality.

The indictment alleges that S-4 was 14 at the time and that Mirko Bozic drove a minivan by which they travelled to Orahova village, while Predrag Cicmanovic took S-4 out of her house and inside the minivan, where she was raped several times.

Goran Rakic, Leader of the Team for Investigation of War Crimes with the SIPA Regional Office in Banja Luka, said that he was informed by a colleague of his that the indictee would meet Mirko Bozic in “Pecina” café in Banja Luka. He went to the café on October 29, 2013. While he was there, he was able to hear parts of their conversations.

“I arrived at around 7.30 p.m. While I was standing at the entrance, I noticed four people in a private space. I recognised Ostoja Markovic and Mirko Bozic. I did not know the two other persons. (…) Bosiljko Markovic came ten or 15 minutes later and said that he had spoken to Prosecutor Dragan and that he had not said anything important and that he would not cause them any trouble,” Rakic said.

He said that his colleagues followed those persons in “Pecina” a few days after that and that he remembered that they spoke about an ongoing investigation, but he could not remember the details.

He pointed out that his colleagues made an official note about it and that the note was submitted to the Prosecution of BiH.

The trial is due to continue on November 11.