Kujundzic: Satanic errands

Prosecution witness 22 described how “Predini vukovi” (“Predo’s Wolves”) took her husband away from Bukovacke Civcije village in June 1992. She said she had never seen him alive after that.  

She identified his remains, as well as the remains of his two brothers, after a mass grave was discovered in the Doboj area in 1998.

“Five soldiers took away my husband and his brother on June 10, 1992. I have never seen them again. Those soldiers told us that they were just executing orders. Two days later they came again and took the remaining men with them, including my husband’s two brothers.  At the time we did not know who the soldiers were, but later on, we heard that they were members of ‘Predini vukovi’, led by Predrag Kujundzic,” witness 22 said, adding that she did not know the indictee.

As indicated by this witness, her husband was used as human shield and was killed on June 12, 1992.  

The Prosecution charges Predrag Kujundzic, who allegedly led the “Predini vukovi” paramilitary group, with the crimes in the Doboj area.

“I remember that other residents told us, in May already, that someone was giving a notice, via public address system, that Doboj was liberated. We did not know from whom they liberated it. In our village we received threats and invitations to hand in our weapons. After the soldiers came and took all men away, there were only old people, women and children in the village,” witness 22 said.

This witness said that she left the village in June 1993, after “Serbian police” informed that they should gather in front of the “Center” and bring “80 marks in order to pay for the transport.”

The second witness, who testified under the pseudonym of 26, said that, when “the satanic errands” commenced in 1992, Serbian residents told the Bosniaks in his village, in Doboj area, to leave the village due to “security reasons.” This witness claims to have known the indictee “since he was a little kid.”

“Predrag’s parents told us to go, as they could not protect us. In late 1991 or early 1992 people were saying that Predrag was gathering potential members of his unit. When the shelling started in the spring of 1992, I visited him and he told me not to worry, as nothing bad would happen to us,” witness 26 said.

“At the time he had control over our village and the area. I remember us being invited via public address system, in May 1992, to hand over our weapons. Later on people said that Predrag kept all the weapons that was handed to him,” witness 26 said, recognizing the indictee in the courtroom.

The witness said he left the village in July 1992. 

The trial is due to continue on Friday, June 13.