Milomir Vasic Trial Begins

Vasic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, has been charged with killing Ahmet Huseinovic by firing a bullet at him from a pistol in the corridor of the Vuk Karadzic school gym in Bratunac on May 11, 1992. The school was being used to detain Bosniak civilians

Sead Husic, one of the detainees held in the school gym, was examined by the first district prosecution witness. Husic said Ahmet Huseinovic was beaten by a man known as “Makedonac” (the Macedonian).

“He ordered me to carry him [Huseinovic] out of the gym. When I carried him out to the corridor, Mile Vasic told me to put him down. He pulled his pistol out and ordered me to go back to the gym. After that I heard a gunshot,” Husic said.

Husic said Vasic entered the gym about ten or fifteen minutes later and ordered him and Ekrem Gusic to go out and wipe blood in the corridor.

Defense attorney Petko Pavlovic presented Husic with a statement he gave in 2008. In that statement, he said he saw Vasic shoot Ahmet Huseinovic in the head.

Pavlovic asked Husic whether he accidentally met an acquaintance named Dido Zaric from Bratunac after the war, and whether he told Zaric that he would take revenge on Vasic and his brother for what happened in Bratunac.

Husic denied these allegations and confirmed the testimony he gave today.

Huseinovic said between 1000-1200 people were held in the gym. He said they were “canned like sardines” and that between 600-800 of them were killed during his three or four days of detention.

The trial will continue on November 13.