Kuvelja: Dilemmas about Protection Measures
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Kuvelja’s trial was postponed following a closed discussion about protection measures for proposed witnesses. The public was briefly called back to the courtroom and informed that the trial was postponed until October 4, because certain dilemmas had appeared.
“Data related to other trials at which these witnesses previously testified under certain protection measures have to be checked,” Trial Chamber Chairman Jasmina Kosovic explained at the trial of indictee Bozidar Kuvelja.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Kuvelja, former member of the Second Squad with the First Company of “Jahorina” Training Centre with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, MUP of RS, with having participated in the shooting of more than 1,000 men in front of and inside the Agricultural Cooperative building in Kravica, Bratunac municipality in July 1995.
According to the charges, on July 12, 1995 Kuvelja participated in the search of Bosniak villages in Potocari area with the aim of gathering the population and taking them to “the collection centre in Potocari”, as well as the separation of men and taking them to “a white house”, where they were detained and mistreated.
The trial of Kuvelja began in May this year.
M.B.
