Zivkovic and Tadic: Seeing Father for the Last Time

Nirzama Fazlagic, who was nine years old in 1992, said that she went to Cajnice municipality building with her father as he wanted to get a certificate confirming that he did not possess weapons.“He wanted to go inside, but two solider came by. One of them told him: ‘Fabijan, it is good that you have come’. He then kicked him with his leg. They took him into the building. I never saw him again,” Fazlagic said, explaining that Fabijan was her father’s nickname and that his name was Mehmed.When they took her father into the Crisis Committee building in Cajnice, the witness stayed in the vicinity of the building and cried. Some time later she went to a neighbour of hers and told her: “They took my father”.The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Zivkovic and Dusko Tadic with the persecution of Bosniaks from the Cajnice area and the murder of 11 civilians at Mostina on May 19, 1992.The indictment alleges that Zivkovic was Chief of the Public Safety Station in Cajnice and member of the Crisis Committee of Cajnice municipality and Tadic was member of the “Plavi orlovi” (“Blue Eagles”) paramilitary unit.The witness told the Court that she did not know where her father was taken from the Crisis Committee.“I just know that we gave cigarettes to our neighbour Bato, who then took them to him, because my father was probably taken to Mostina,” Fazlagic said.The witness described the two soldiers, whom she met while she was with her father. She said that they had long beards and caps with some signs on them, adding that their uniforms were “greenish”.She said that she left Cajnice, along with other family members, on May 19, 1992, adding that she still has not found out what happened to her father.The Defence of Milorad Zivkovic completed the examination of its witnesses with the examination of this witness.The trial is due to continue on August 20, when the Defence of Dusko Tadic will examine its witnesses.