Witnesses Recall Visegrad Bosniak Convoys

Witness Fahrija Hoso said that in the first half of 1992 Red Cross was making lists of Bosniaks leaving Visegrad. She explained that the lists were sent to the police and municipality in order to know “who was leaving, and who wasn’t.”

As she said, people were voluntarily reporting to the Red Cross for departing the Visegrad area, because they lived in fear after previous killings.

Hoso was asked about whether the convoy from June 14 in 1992 was organised by the Red Cross. She said that she did not see the convoy from June 14, 1992, but that she heard that the Serbian army used a megaphone to call Bosniaks to leave Visegrad.
She added that she wasn’t in the Red Cross that day and that she left Visegrad on June 17 1992.

Tasic is charged with having participated, along with Predrag Milisavljevic and Milos Pantelic and other armed members of the Serbian army and police, in the forced resettlement of Bosniaks from Visegrad on June 14, 1992.

According to the indictment, Tasic was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army, and Milisavljevic and Pantelic were police reservists in the Centre for Public Safety in Visegrad.

After the testimony, the prosecution filed several pieces of material evidence, which it will use to deny the defence claim that Milisavljevic and Pantelic were not police reservists in June 1992.

The Defence noted that the evidence is contradictory to the previous prosecution evidence. Pantelic’s military record book was also presented which, as Defence counsel Nenad Rubez said, stated that he was in the police until mid-May 1992.

The trial resumes on March 18, when the Defence will present additional evidence.