Witness Recalls Parents’ Beating Near Sanski Most
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The state prosecution has charged Goran Mrdja, Milorad Mrdja, Ranko Mrdja and Mile Kokot, all former members of the Sixth Sanska Infantry Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, with participating in crimes against Bosniaks in the Sanski Most area from 1992 to 1994.
Mirsad Jakupovic said that his father, Muharem, and neighbors from Pobrijezje told him in 1996 that his home was attacked during the war.
He added that he did not speak much with his father at first.
“In the end he told me that he was beaten, that soldiers came to the house. They beat him and my mom. They took money — my mom gave them money,” Jakupovic said, adding that his father said one of the men who came lived in his brother-in-law’s home, while the other soldier lived in the house of Muharem Drobic.
Jakupovic said that his father told him that Omer Drobic was in the house at the time of the attack, but could not recall who else was present.
“In 1996, I saw traces of the attack: A bloody wall and bedsheet,” Jakupovic said.
Jakupovic said he was told that his father sustained injuries to his head and the rest of his body, though no signs remained in 1996.
The trial continues on January 11.
