Defendant Helped Loyal Witness

The witness, whose request that his name not be publicly announced was accepted by the Trial Chamber, said that on June 11, 1992, he was apprehended and taken to the police station in Kotor-Varos by two uniformed men. On that day, he said, other non-Serb people were apprehended too.
 
The witness, who worked in the police up until first multi-party elections, said he was taken to Bojic’s office, and that he signed the statement of loyalty without any pressure. In the next 15 days, he added, he did errands for the police.
 
In late June, the witness said, he was saved by defendant Bojic from some members of the special police who wanted to murder him after they had come from Banja Luka to Kotor-Varos.
 
“You will go home until we drive out these punks,” the witness quoted the defendant’s words.
 
While he was home, he said, he heard that non-Serbs were held in police prison and he saw them in November 1992 when he returned to the police and resumed doing errands assigned to him by Bojic.
 
Together with Bojic, on trial for crimes committed in Kotor-Varos are Savo Tepic, Dusko Vujicic, Dusko Maksimovic, Radojko Keverovic, Rade Skoric and Ilija Kurusic.
 
They are charged with participating in broad and systematic attack and expulsion of Bosniaks and Croatians from their houses in 1992, as well as the imprisonment and torture and other inhumane acts.
 
According to indictment, Bojic was commander of the police station in Kotor-Varos; Tepic was a former chief of the police station; Vujicic was an active policeman; Maksimovic, Skoric and Keverovic were reserve policemen, while Kurusic was a member of the Army of Republika Srpska.
 
The trial will resume on October 20.