Vehicles with Numerous Bullet Holes

Vladimir Pljevaljcic told the court he left Gorazde for security reasons on August 27, 1992 with the help from the Bosnian Serb Army, which rescued them from “the siege”.

As he said, he departed from Jabuka location by a civilian car together with his aunt and her husband, as well as his grandfather. He specified they were a part of a convoy moving towards Mesici.

“Just before we arrived in Mesici, we heard gunshots, but we did not pay much attention. (…) We thought the territory was totally under the Serb control,” the witness said, adding he then spotted a vehicle “full of bullet holes” and dead neighbours.

He said that fire was opened at their vehicle a short time later and that everybody else but him got killed.

“My aunt said: ‘Save yourself’. I went out and stopped a truck, which drove me to Rogatica. When I arrived in Rogatica, I saw a dead child and wounded people in a bus,” Pljevaljcic said.

He said the bodies of his family members were evacuated two or three months later.

Muhamed Sisic, Emir Drakovac, Aziz Susa and Tarik Sisic are on trial for having participated in an attack on a convoy in the village of Kukakvice on August 28, 1992. At least 20 Serbs got killed and several tens were wounded in that attack.

The indictment alleges that Muhamed Sisic was the commander of the Commando Squad of so-called Kukavicka Company of the Bosnian Army, while the other defendants were members of that unit.

Drakovac is charged with having committed murders, torture and mutilation of a civilian and prisoner of war with an ax in the Foca area in late 1992.

The trial will continue on June 23.