Taking Bozic’s to School Building

Hasib Isakovic told the Court that he was sent to Mount Lisac, together with other members of ABiH’s unit called “Twenty Five”, which was commanded by indictee Saric, in order to check the area in the summer of 1992.
 
According to Isakovic, in front of Bozic’s family house the soldiers found an unknown uniformed person, who told them that the search had already been conducted, that weapons had been found and that they should take Andjelko Bozic and his sons for an informative interview.
 
“We did that by tying him and escorting him to the military barracks within the school complex in Tetovo village. However, when we approached, some local residents, who were sitting in a café, wanted to attack them. We somehow managed to defend them. We took them to a duty officer. I left the barracks after that. I can say that there were more civilians than soldiers in the military barracks. On the following day I heard on the radio that a dead body was found in front of the emergency hospital,” Isakovic said, adding that Saric was not in the barracks, when the Bozics were brought to it.

He said that he heard from other soldiers that Saric banned them from talking about it, but he personally did not hear the order.  
 
Djerahovic and Saric are charged with having participated in physical abuse of Andjelko Bozic and his sons Nedeljko and Veseljko in Bukovica village, Zenica municipality, on June 16, 1992. The indictment alleges that Andjelko Bozic died due to the beating, while his sons were severely injured.
 
Witness Ilijas Sabic told the Court that he was Commander of a unit with the Reconnaissance Squad of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose members visited and searched houses in Bukovica village in 1992.
 
According to Sabic’s testimony, indictee Djerahovic, who lived in that area, was member of his Squad. He said that he once showed him where certain hamlets and houses were.
 
“When we arrived to the Bozic’s house, two members of the Squad searched it and found a military map. We tried to single out his younger son, offer him with a cigarette and persuade him to tell us whether and where there were any weapons, but he did not do it. At that moment members of the “Twenty Five” Unit arrived and began quarrelling with us, because we were in their zone of responsibility. We withdrew from that place. All members of the Squad got on a minivan, with which we had come, and drove back to our base. The Bozics stayed in front of the house,” Sabic said.
 
The trial is due to continue on December 16.