Memic et al: The Killing of the Father
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Anica Kreso, said that in April 1993, she was at home with her parents Smiljko and Mara, a few neighbours and children when firing started from heaven and from earth. As she said, one woman and one man in black uniform broke into their house and started shooting at them.
My father tried to went out and they killed him. A woman and man forced us out of the house. We had to pass across my father, said Kreso.
The witness added that one group of soldiers which she did not know were outside and that woman in black uniform claimed that shots were fired from their home. That was not true, who would shoot – women and children were in the house, the witness said.
Kreso said that her brother Pero was a member the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and that he was among the people who were keeping the guard, who were all killed afterwards.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Mensur Memic, Dzevad Salcin, Senad Hakalovic, Nedzad Hodzic, Nihad Bojadzic and Zulfikar Alispago, with the murder of 18 civilians and four members of the HVO in Trusina village on April 16, 1993.
The indictment alleges that Memic, Salcin and Hodzic, former members of the Zulfikar Special Purposes Squad with the Main Command Headquarters of ABiH, and Hakalovic, former member of the Neretvica 45th Mountain Brigade, participated in the attack on Trusina and the murder of civilians and prisoners of war.
According to the charges, Bojadzic, the then Deputy Commander of Zulfikar Squad, commanded the attack on Trusina. Alispago, a former Commander of that Squad, is charged with having failed to sanction the soldiers who participated in the shooting.
In continuation of her testimony, Kreso said that the soldiers took them to a house in Trusina where they spent few days prior to exchange. Kreso said that she saw the dead bodies of locals in Trusina.
According to her, before the attack on Trusina, relations between Bosniaks and Croats were good.
The continuation of the trial is scheduled for March 30 this year. A.J.
