Presentation of Prosecutions Evidence Completed
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Testifying for the District Prosecution in Eastern Sarajevo, Resad Brdaric said that he was brought to Kula from Kasindolska Street, where he lived, on May 14, 1992.
They came by military transporter. They told us via megaphone to hand over our weapons. Whoever had weapons handed them over. Most of us did not. They wrote down our first and last names. They kept us in front of a house for two hours. A truck then came. They loaded 38 of us onto it and drove us to Kula, the witness said.
He said that they were then taken, one by one, to an office in Kula in order to be examined. Describing the person, who examined him, Brdaric said that it was a rather big man, whose cheeks were red, and that he was dressed in the former Yugoslav National Army, JNA, uniform.
Brdaric said that he was exchanged on May 21, 1992 and that, one day after the exchange, he gave a statement to police in Sarajevo and that the policeman, who took his statement, told him that, judging by the description, this was Luka Majstorovic, who used to work at the Police Administration in Stari Grad, Sarajevo.
The witness said that four persons told him that they were beaten in Kula, but he did not notice any injuries on them.
I think that Alija Duric was beaten up because they found his Party for Democratic Action, SDA, membership card. He said that a guard hit him on his back with a rifle butt, Brdaric said.
When asked by indictee Luka Majstorovic whether the person, who examined him in Kula, was the same person, who escorted him to the exchange location, the witness answered negatively.
The indictment alleges that Majstorovic, former investigator, treated a Bosniak civilian in an inhumane manner and deliberately caused his physical and mental suffering in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility.
At this hearing the Prosecution read a statement given by late witness Begler Cengic to the State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, in 2007. In that statement he said that, while he was in Kula, to which he was brought from Dobrinja, he used to see Luka Majstorovic, whom he had known from before, because he worked at the Police Station in Stari Grad.
At this hearing the Prosecution presented several pieces of material evidence, including documents about the indictees movements while in service.
The trial is due to continue on December 4.
