Stanarevic’s Trial to Begin in March
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The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, announced that it would examine 27 witnesses and three court experts and present 199 pieces of material evidence, adding that it would need 20 working days for that.
Prosecutor Lejla Konjic said that protection measures were only granted to witness S-1.
The Defence said that it would examine five or six witnesses and that it would “not have many pieces of evidence”, whose “presentation will last for three to five days”.
The Prosecution charges Stanarevic, a former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having participated in murder of civilians within a widespread and systematic attack by the Army and police on Ripac, Cukovi, Orasac, Klisa and Kulen Vakuf villages, Bihac municipality.
The indictment alleges that, in the summer of 1992 Stanarevic, who was allegedly accompanied by other VRS members, came to the Police Station in Ripac, where more than 70 Bosniak civilians from that area were detained.
“The indictee and his accomplices took out and tied 11 detainees with the intention to kill them only because of their ethnicity. They then transported the civilians by truck to Bezdan natural pit in Hrgar village, where they participated in the murder of the detainees,” the indictment alleges.
The remains of 83 persons were exhumed from the pit in 1997.
Zeljko Stanarevic was arrested on June 17 last year.
