Blood-stained Working Coats in School Building
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Witness Sejda Keso said that she found his remains last year.
She said that she was detained, along with her father-in-law and mother-in-law Mula Keso, as well as other Bosniaks, in “Miladin Radojevic” school building.
The witness said that Edin Bico too was taken away from the classroom in which they stayed, adding that he had never come back and that his remains were found last year.
“They took Edin away in the evening and my father-in-law on the following morning. Pero Elez asked him what his name was. He grabbed him by his jacket and pushed him away. Two other men were standing in front of the door,” the witness recalled.
Marinko and Zoran Bjelica, as well as Novica Tripkovic, who were allegedly armed with automatic guns, are charged with having separated detainees Suad Hasanbegovic, Edin Bico, Seid Keso and Hasim Hatic from other detainees in the school building on August 1, 1992 or approximately on that date.
The indictment alleges that they beat them up during that night. Keso died due to the beating. The three other detainees were killed the following day.
Witness Keso said that, one day after they had been taken away, she and her mother-in-law went to a room, where they saw traces of blood and blood-stained working coats.
She said that, a few days after having taken her father-in-law away, “two men took Hasim, Mujo and Redzovic”.
Amira Grebovic, who was detained in the school gym, said that veterinarian Suad Hasanbegovic was beaten up and then taken out again, adding that he had never come back afterwards.
“When they brought him back for the first time, he told us that they had beaten him up. He was covered with bruises. This happened at the beginning of August. When they took him away for the second time, they did not bring him back. Somebody said that they saw him dead in a concrete trough,” Grebovic said.
She mentioned that she saw Edin Bico, whom she had known from before, in the school building.
“I saw him a few times. The man disappeared soon,” Grebovic said.
The continuation of the trial is scheduled for July 16.
