Prosecution’s Evidence about Indictee’s Wounding
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The Prosecution is trying to deny the Defence’s evidence, indicating that the indictee underwent medial treatment at a hospital following his wounding in June 1992.
“The list of wounded members of the 2nd Podrinje Light Infantry Brigade indicates that Rakovic was sent to medial treatment following his wounding on October 29, 1992 and not in June after his wounding at Zaglavak, as the witnesses said,” Prosecutor Dzevad Muratbegovic said.
Defence attorney Petko Pavlovic objected to the relevance of most pieces of the Prosecution’s evidence.
“The witnesses spoke roughly about his wounding. Therefore, they knew that Rackovic was wounded and that he was not present in the Unit, but they did not know when he underwent medical treatment,” the attorney said.
The Prosecution included, as evidence, a novel “Even God Cried for Bosnia” written by Momir Krsmanovic, in which, as said by the Prosecutor, indictee Rackovic was mentioned.
The Defence announced that it would include some more quotations from that novel in the case file at the next hearing. Also, the examination of additional Defence witnesses was announced.
Vitomir Rackovic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, is charged with having participated in attacks on Bosniak villages, detention, torture, forcible disappearances and rape in the period from May to the end of August 1992.
The trial is due to continue on February 11.
