Prosic: Recognised Killed Brothers by Clothes

“They were in a mass grave. Senad and Emir Nalic, my aunt, neighbours Eko and Tanja were in it. I recognised aunt Nafija by her track suit. There was some hair, but no tissue. I recognised my brother Senad by his shirt and my other brother by his sneakers. A pathologist told me that he found four injuries caused by the penetration of bullets on the body of one of my brothers and pieces of wire on my second brother’s body,” witness Enes Nalic said.

He mentioned that, in late May 1992 the Serb Army shelled and occupied Otoka, where he lived, and that his father told him that he only recognised neighbour Pedo Prosic among the soldiers.

“He saw some soldiers on the road near the house of Hilmija Hegic, a local glazier, and that he recognised Pedo Prosic among them. I know his mother Milka. We called him Milka’s Pedo. He used to sell costume jewelry at the market,” Nalic said.

The witness said that his father told him that while he was running away, he heard burst fire and supposed that his sons were killed at that moment.

“He did not know that my brothers and our aunt were in that house. He assumed that they were together, but he did not know that they were in that house,” the witness said.

Prosic, former member of the Sixth Sana Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, is charged with having participated in a widespread and systematic attack on villages in the Sanski Most area, as well as the persecution, detention, setting houses on fire and the murder of non-Serb civilians.

The indictment alleges that, on May 27, 1992 Prosic entered Hilmo Hegic’s house, where nine civilians, including a pregnant woman, were and killed them. He then allegedly set the house on fire.

Besides that, Prosic is charged with having participated in the deportation of civilians and detention of those civilians in detention facilities in Sanski Most. Some of the detained men were transferred to Manjaca detention camp later on.

Witness Nalic said that “the cleansing” took place on day after his conversation with his father and that women and children were separated from men, who were taken to the sports hall in Sanski Most.

He said that he was detained in the hall for about a month before being transferred to Manjaca detention camp.

“Manjaca was a detention camp, like any other camp. God forbid I have to experience that again. I would not wish that to anyone. As soon as you entered the detention camp, there was silence and discipline. We were accommodated in cattle barns,” the witness said, adding that he stayed in Manjaca until December 14, 1992.

He mentioned that he saw his parents again in Zagreb in 1995, adding that they died later on from the sorrow caused by the loss of their sons.

The trial is due to continue on September 14.
A.S.