Witness Describes Death of Prisoners During Transport to Manjaca
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The indictment alleges that Vrucinic, the former chief of the public safety station and a member of the crisis committee in Sanski Most, participated in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of persecuting the non-Serb population from April to December 1992.
Vrucinic has been charged with the persecution of the Bosniak and Croat civilian population, which included acts of murder, forcible resettlement, unlawful detention and enforced disappearances.
Dragan Majkic told the trial chamber he was relieved of his duties as chief of the public safety station in Sanski Most at the beginning of May 1992 and that Mirko Vrucinic replaced him.
Majkic said he was relieved of his duties by the crisis committee and said the handover took place on May 2, 1992. When asked whether his replacement was conducted in a lawful manner, Majkic said it wasn’t.
Majkic said he was on duty when two police officer brought him a list of names of prisoners who suffocated to death while being transported to Manjaca in July 1992.
When asked what to do with them, Majkic said he told him to call the commander and the chief.
According to Majkic, the prison in which the detainees were held was guarded by the army and the police later on. He said Manjaca was a military detention camp.
“It must have been the army, considering the fact they were going to Manjaca,” Majkic said.
Majkic told the court that Drago Vujanic, the former inspector for economic crime, was appointed the manager of the prison in Sanski Most, which detained Bosniaks and Croats.
