Djogatovic not on Duty

Witness Radivoj Milutinovic, who was Lance Corporal of Sentry with the 19th Light Infantry Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, said that he and indictee Djogatovic were not on duty, when Sulejman Sutkovic was killed.

“Ilija and I were on vacation the night when that happened. When we came to the combat line, we were told that there was some shooting,” Milutinovic said.

He said that Cedo Fonjga was not mobilised at the time.

Djogatovic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who was accompanied by Cedo Fonjga, who has since died, is charged with having shot Sulejman Sutkovic and another civilian to their backs in Cehajici village, Donji Vakuf municipality, in mid-June 1992.

Defence witness Radivoje Fonjga said that Cedo Fonjga had lived in Austria from before the war and that he had never come back.

“We were in Austria together. He never went back to his home town. I used to see Cedo in Novi Sad. Later on all of them went to Austria. He died in that country in 2004,” witness Fonjga said.

Witness Zdravko Glisic said that he knew indictee Ilija Djogatovic, but he did not know Cedo Fonjga.

“I was at the Command when that happened. We heard some shooting. It lasted four or five minutes. Later on we heard that a Hodza got killed. We found a body about 60 or 70 metres away from the trenches. No investigation was conducted. We buried the body where we found it, on a meadow next to the road,” witness Glisic said.

The trial is due to continue on January 12, 2015.