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Witness Radovan Milosavljevic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, kept guard about fifty metres away from the hotel at the beginning of the war, adding that Milan Lukic and his team used to visit the hotel.
Oliver Krsmanovic, the Milosavljevic brothers and Zeljko Lelek were among them. I did not know what was happening inside the hotel, the witness said. He told the Court that Igbala Becirevic was brought to the hotel once and that they then took her in front of the building.
They took her clothes off and pushed Slobodan Vukovic, who was deaf and dumb, towards her. The team was there… Oliver was there too, the witness recalled. The State Prosecution charges Oliver Krsmanovic, former member of the Second Podrinje Light Infantry Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having committed murders, rape and abuse of Bosniak population in Visegrad. The Hague Tribunal sentenced Milan Lukic to life imprisonment for having committed crimes in Visegrad. In 2009 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced a second instance verdict against Zeljko Lelek, sentencing him to 16 years in prison for crimes committed in that town.
When asked by Defence attorney Slavisa Prodanovic why he failed to mention in his statement given to the State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, in 2006, that Krsmanovic was present in front of the hotel when they took Igbala Becirevic out, witness Milosavljevic said that nobody had asked about him. I said that the team, which I had already mentioned, was present at that place. The prosecutor asked me about Oliver Krsmanovic only later, the witness explained.
Court expert Hamza Zujo confirmed to the Court that he was involved in the exhumation of bodies, which were buried on a meadow in the upstream of River Zepa, while Hague Tribunals pathologists performed an autopsy. Prosecutor Mirko Lecic said that these victims were mentioned in several counts contained in the indictment.
The trial is due to continue on June 4.
