Indictee Sadikovic’s Allegations

“I take responsibility for saying that I was not present in Kasatici. I can swear by anything that this is true. I was 20 kilometres away from the place, where the crime was committed,” Sadikovic said before the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo.

Sadikovic said that he left Kasatici village, in which he lived, with his family on May 15 or 17, 1992 and that he went to Budmolici village, Hadzici municipality, for security reasons.

As he said, he and his family stayed at his aunt’s, actually his mother’s sister’s. He said that he was a policeman at the Police Station in Pazaric at that time and that he travelled to work from Budmolici for three months. The indictee said that he worked as policeman throughout the entire war.

Sadikovic is charged, as a member of the armed forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, with having killed four Serb civilians in Kasatici village in May 1992.

According to the indictee’s testimony, on May 27 or 28, 1992 he heard people comment that the village would not have been burnt, had the Milosevics not been killed.

He pointed out that the Milosevics were his neighbours, while he lived in Kasatici, and that their relations were “totally normal”.

“I would like to ask all of you to make more questions, because I have now been given an opportunity to speak after seven years, so this crime would be solved,” Sadikovic said.

Nives Kanevcev, Prosecutor with the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecution, had no questions for indictee Sadikovic.

The trial is due to continue on February 6.