Detention in Jagomir
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Protected witness S-10 stated that in 1992, men from the Nahorevo settlement were invited to the local commune for a meeting, from where they were taken to Jagomir hospital building.
”I did not want to go to that meeting but a soldier met me that all men must go there. When I arrived, I saw men being boarded on trucks,” S-10 stated, adding that he also boarded the truck.
The witness testified that he was taken to Jagomir along with others, and put in a room where he spent three days.
“On the third day, two men entered the room and called their names from the list. They said that they were taking some of us to the town, and others to Vogosca. When we got out, they told us to board the truck, which I did,” S-10 recalled.
He noted that he was not taken to Vogosca, since one person asked to be released because he was young, so he was subsequently taken to the town. When asked by the defence if he knew the identity of the person who released him, the witness stated that he had learned that it was Goran Saric.
Saric, former chief of Public Security Station (SJB) in the Serb Municipality of Centar, is charged with having ordered all men in Nahorevo to come to the Local Commune from where 100 Bosniak men were taken to Jagomir Hospital building and were detained there on 19 June 1992. A group of 11 detainees was subsequently murdered in Skakavac.
According to the indictment, Saric ordered the rest of the non-Serb population to surrender, whereupon 200 women, children, and the elderly were forcibly relocated to the territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH).
Halid Masnopita, the second witness who testified in this trial, gave his account about his life in Ljesevo village, Ilijas Municipality during the war. In early June 1992, the village was attacked when this witness was taken to a detention facility in Podlugovi.
Following two and a half months, Masnopita was transferred to Planjina house in Vogosca Municipality where he found more detainees.
“There we found people from Vogosca, Nahorevo They were scared to death, starved,” the witness said, adding that the detainees were also taken to forced labor.
