Murder from a Tractor

Witness Pero Adzic told the Court that he was working as a military policeman when Hajdarevic was killed and that he arrived at the murder scene half an hour after the murder.

“I guarded the crime scene. When I arrived there, the corpse was still there. I heard some people saying that he had been killed by a person nicknamed Kodzo, who shot him from a tractor.

“Some time later I heard a tractor passing by in the vicinity of the house. Somebody shouted that Kodzo was coming back, so they left in order to hide somewhere. I ran away with them because I was afraid that he would kill me, too,” Adzic said.

He said that people later told him that Kodzo was accompanied by a man named Prica, whom he knew as they were from the same village.

“When I arrived at the murder scene, Konjevic was not there. None of the people who were present mentioned him,” Adzic said.

Konjevic, allegedly accompanied by another person, is charged with having killed Remzija Hajdarevic in the vicinity of his house in Kozarska Dubica on August 31, 1992. It is alleged that he fired 11 bullets into Hajdarevic’s back.

Testifying in defence of the indictee, former policemen Predrag Bartes and Zeljko Slijepcevic said that they remembered that police received a report against a person who was “mistreating the local imam and chasing him around the mosque”.

“When we arrived there, we saw Zeljko Mastic doing it. I think this happened on the day that Hajdarevic was killed,” Bartes said.

Slijepcevic said that he participated in Mastic’s examination.

“They brought Mastic for an examination. I examined him. He admitted having done that. He confiscated a yellow Mercedes from that person. I told him that he had to return it, but he said that he had done it due to some old unresolved conflicts between them. However, he promised that he would return the vehicle,” Slijepcevic said.

Borislav Glamoc said that during the war he worked as a waiter in a café in Tutnjevci and that a shop was located across the street from the café.

“I remember that two soldiers, Kodzo and Prica, once attacked and beat up my neighbour Mirso because of some cigarettes, but Konjevic was not there,” Glamoc said.

The trial is due to continue on May 23.