Witnesses Describe Finding Remains of Family Members on Mount Borje

The state prosecution has charged Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuk, Dragomir Kezunovic and Dario Slavuljica with participating in an attack against the Bosniak and Croat population and detaining them at the Teslic police station, on Territorial Defense premises and in a military prison from June 1992 to June 30, 1993.

The defendants have been accused of taking 28 detained civilians from a Teslic police station and the nearby Pribinic prison to Mount Borje on the night of June 17 and 18, 1992. There, the defendants allegedly killed them.

According to the indictment, at the time Marjanovic was the commander of the First Squad of the military police of the Teslicka Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army. The other defendants were members of that squad and also members of the Mice paramilitary formation.

Testifying at today’s hearing, state prosecution witness Fata Kamenica said three unknown men abducted one of her sons from their house during the war. She said she searched for him, but couldn’t find any information on his whereabouts. His body was eventually found in a mass grave on Mount Borje.

State prosecution witnesses Dzehva Fazlic and Sead Jasarevic said their fathers’ bodies were also exhumed on Mount Borje. State prosecution witnesses Zehrija Garic and Zulejha Gibic said their husbands were found in the same grave. State prosecution witness Muharem Lugonjic said his brother’s body was also found on Mount Borje.

State prosecution witness Alija Mulic said he was detained in the Pribinic military prison in June 1992 and then transferred to police premises in Teslic. After spending one night there, he was taken to the premises of the Territorial Defense. He said he was released after 26 days of detention.

The trial will continue on October 22.