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Petar Majic, former head of organisation and mobilisation in the Croatian Defence Forces, said that in late 1991 General Blaz Kraljevic founded the Croatian Defence Forces. The formation was mostly joined by volunteers.We used the army barracks in Dretelj to train soldiers. The volunteers who came were put there, said Majic, adding that upon arriving to the Croatian Defence Forces Edib Buljubasic was deployed to the Dretelj barracks.He said he heard Buljubasic came to the Croatian Defence Forces on recommendation from Croatia.Buljubasic is charged, together with Ivan Zelenika, Srecko Herceg, Ivan Medic and Marina Grubisic-Fejzic with crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians detained in the Dretelj camp in 1992. The indictment specifies that they all took part in torture and in forcing prisoners to do hard labour, while several people died from the abuse.According to the indictment, Zelenika was an officer of the Croatian Defence Force, Herceg was commander of the Dretelj camp, Buljubasic was his deputy, while Medic and Grubisic-Fejzic were guards.Majic said that Srecko Herceg was head of the Training Centre in Hardomilje, and that he did not know of Herceg holding any other position.I know Herceg and I can say only good things about him. I know him as calm, composed, a family man and I know nothing bad about him, the witness said.He said that in late 1992 he heard prisoners were put into the Dretelj barracks. Asked by the Trial Chamber who had been in charge of the people in hangars and barracks, the witness said that it was the barracks commander.The court also heard testimony from witness Goran Maunaga, the journalist who on June 29, 2007, published an interview with defendant Buljubasic. Maunaga said that in the interview published by Nezavisne novine, that he wrote down everything exactly as the defendant related to him.The trial will resume on March 5.
