Material Evidence Presented at Srebrenik Crimes Trial
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Ekrem Ibracevic, Faruk Smajlovic and Sejdalija Covic have been charged with torturing and abusing prisoners at a Rapatnica detention facility in the summer of 1992. Ibracevic was the former chief of military security at the municipal headquarters of the Territorial Defense in Srebrenik. Smajlovic and Covic were military police officers.
Prosecutor Zorica Djurdjevic presented findings on the general context of wartime happenings in the Srebrenik area, as well as information on employees at the health center, police and Territorial Defense.
The documentation also referred to the military prison in a local community building in Rapatnica, where parties were organized before the war.
Djurdjevic said one of the documents issued in July 1992 indicated that an incident had occurred and that unauthorized persons entered the detention unit.
The prosecution also presented material evidence, including criminal reports on individuals who left the police force arbitrarily and took weapons they had been assigned to the village of Tinja. The prosecution also presented decisions on the cessation of employment and information on individuals leaving their apartments.
The defense teams objected to most of the documents. They described them as irrelevant and said their authenticity was disputable.
Sanjin Bandovic, Ibracevic’s defense attorney, objected to the inclusion of a number of reports and minutes because no witnesses who would have been able to confirm their authenticity had been examined at the trial.
The prosecution will continue presenting its material evidence on November 3.
