Witnesses Describe Disappearance of Family Members at Teslic Trial
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The witnesses testified at the trial of Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuk, Dragomir Kezunovic and Dario Slavuljica, members of the Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary. They’ve charged with participating in an attack against the Bosniak and Croat population in Teslic. They allegedly detained captured civilians on police premises, buildings under the command of the Territorial Defense and a military prison in June 1992.
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 or 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.
Fatima Memic said her son Jasmin was abducted from the village of Donji Rankovici. Memic said his remains were found in a mass grave in Pribic.
“They took 11 of our children,” Memic said. Memic said she heard from a neighbour named Mile Devic that her son had been taken to Pribic.
Ziba Memic also testified at this hearing. She said her son Munir was taken from Rankovic. She said she and Fatima Memic, her relative, went to the Pribic prison to see her son, because she heard that he was being held there.
“Mile [Devic] told us they were there,” Memic said.
Salih Begovic also testified at this hearing. He said his daughter told him she saw soldiers arrest several young men, including son Fahrudin, 17. Begovic said his daughter told him Fahrudin was tied up and taken away in an unknown direction. He told the judges that the mortal remains of his son were found in a grave in Bebe.
Witness Almira Isic said she heard that her brother Dzevad Memic had been taken to a prison in Pribic, along with a group of other Bosniaks. She said she heard all of them were killed in Bebe and found her brother’s remains 15 years ago.
The trial continues on July 2.
