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In his statement given to the District Prosecution in Eastern Sarajevo in 2010, Samoukovic said that he kept guard, along with other local residents of Kasatici village, when an attack on the village began in May 1992.
“We kept guard during the night on May 24/25. In early morning hours the Muslim Army began a fierce attack. They began shooting on the village. I heard them exclaiming ‘Allahu Akbar’,” the statement read by Prosecutor Dragan Slijepcevic said.
The witness said that the Kasatici village residents were poorly armed, but they tried to offer resistance in order to protect civilians.
“We did not succeed because there were so many of them. They had long pipes,” the statement said.
Azemin Sadikovic is on trial for crimes in Kasatici before the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo. The former member of “the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina” is charged with having killed four Serb civilians in that village in May 1992.
As said in the statement, witness Samoukovic saw body of one dead person after the attack. Also, he said that other residents told him that more people had been killed.
“Members of Milosevic family were buried in Kasatici, while the body of Branko Samoukovic was found 75 days after the attack,” the witness said.
The Defence of indictee Sadikovic did not object to the reading of this statement. The Prosecution presented 19 more pieces of material evidence. Most of those documents were entries from the dead persons’ registry and police acts referring to indictee Sadikovic.
Prosecutor Slijepcevic also presented a video recording depicting one of the protected witnesses but this piece of evidence was presented at a closed part of the hearing due to the protection measures previously granted to the witness.
The Defence did not object to these pieces of evidence either.
The trial is due to continue on November 26.
