Findings about Father’s Murder

Witness Rade Indjic, former reserve policeman from Prijedor, said that his father Bozo Indjic was killed in the vicinity of Kozarac on August 30, 1992 and that a Hamdija Beslagic told him that indictee Alukic killed him.

“When I went to his house, I noticed that the house and all other accessory buildings were on fire. I saw my father’s body, which was charred, on the site of fire. At that time people said that a Kole’s group had done that. They informed me that Beslagic, who was held in detention, had information about the murder. He was my father’s neighbour. When I asked him why he had done that, he told me that he had been among those people, but Alukic had done that,” Indjic said.

The Banja Luka District Prosecution charges Alukic and Hirkic with having participated in the murder of two Serb civilians on the trunk road between Prijedor and Banja Luka on August 29, 1992, as well as murder of Bozo Indjic in his house.

Second District Prosecution witness Zaim Causevic said that, following the shelling of Kozarac in late May 1992, he fled to a forest and hid in it.

“We were divided into groups. At the beginning we were not armed, but we obtained guns, later on, as some people dropped it, when they decided to surrender. One day members of the Republika Srpska Army drove a wounded Bosniak, who was moaning due to pain, on a truck. At that moment somebody said that we should revenge for that,” Causevic recalled.

According to his testimony, they agreed to go down to Prijedor-Banja Luka trunk road and set an ambush.

“When we came down to the road, we saw a few other groups of our people, who had come in order to take food from houses. I entered a house, together with two other persons. Soon after that I heard shooting from all sides. When I went out, I saw a Fiat by the side of the road and Beslagic running. The vehicle began burning soon after that. We ran away to the woods,” Causevic said.

Witness Causevic said that they then returned back through the woods with Beslagic.

“When we moved on, Beslagic said that he ‘should take care of Bozo’. He left to survey the area to find out if there were soldiers around. However, he was not back for long, so we went to check where he was. When we arrived to the houses, the shooting from both sides began. When we realised that we would not be able to pass, we ran away through the woods,” Causevic said, adding that he did not know whether Alukic and Hirkic were there.

Prosecutor Branko Mitrovic read records of statements given by Causevic in 2006, 2008 and 2013, which said, as said by the Prosecutor, that Alukic and Hirkic were in the group of people.

Causevic said that he was in fear, when he gave the statements to the Prosecution, because he was held in detention camps in Banja Luka.

Testifying at this hearing, Mirsad Susic said that, on May 24, 1992 Serb forces began shelling Kozarac and that he fled to the woods afterwards. He said that he saw Hamdija Beslagic in the woods several times. Susic said that Beslagic told him that a car had been set on fire and that some encounters had taken place, but he could not remember anything else.

The trial is due to continue on February 20.