Former VRS Soldiers Didn’t See Gojkovic in Front of Command or Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
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Gojkovic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), has been charged with the rape of a woman in the Grbavica neighbourhood of Sarajevo on September 29, 1992.
Stojan Sljuka, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier, testified at today’s hearing. Sljuka told the cantonal court of Sarajevo that he knew the defendant by sight and had seen him in a so-called exchange house several times. He said the house was located near an intersection on Zagrebacka Street which leads to the neighbourhood of Vraca.
“I’m absolutely sure I’ve never seen him at the Jewish cemetery or anywhere near that zone,” Sljuka said. He said walking in Grbiavica was “nonsense” at the beginning of the war.
Sljuka said an officer named Radomir Furtula was an officer from Gornji Kovacici, the neighbourhood he lived in, for a certain period of time. He said Furtula “had come with a group of people from Rogatica and Han-Pijesak, probably as reinforcement.”
Radomir Rackovic, a witness and former Bosnian Serb soldier, said he left the Rogatica area and went to the Sarajevo battlefield under the command of Radomir Furtula in May 1992. He said they took their positions at the Jewish cemetery, where they remained until October 1992.
He said he was a communications officer and stayed in a house on Trebevicka Street, where the command was situated.
“I never saw this man in front of our command or its vicinity,” Rackovic said. He said he didn’t know the defendant until two months ago.
The trial will continue on December 14.
