Krsmanovic Defense Closes Evidence Presentation with Reading of Two Witness Statements

Kasim Dedic, who testified at Krsmanovic’s trial two years ago, was called to testify again in order to verify that the notebook belonged to him.

Among other things, in the notebook Dedic has stated that two mosques were set on fire in Visegrad on June 8, 1992.
 
At the hearing, the trial chamber accepted the defense’s proposal to read parts of statements made by two witnesses, which describe rapes which occurred at the Vilina Vlas Hotel and people who were burned alive in a house in Bikavac.
 
Witness Gojko Vidakovic, who recently passed away, had said in a statement given in 2006 that a female nurse was raped in Vilina Vlas by Milan Lukic, Krsto Papic, Boban Indjic, and that a child with mental disabilities was forced to do the same.
 
A protected witness known as OK-18 had mentioned the names of twelve people in her statement. These were names of people she saw when a house in Bikavac was set on fire with civilians inside. Seventy Bosniak civilians died.
 
“The name of Oliver Krsmanovic isn’t mentioned in either [statement],” defense lawyer Slavisa Prodanovic said.
 
Krsmanovic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, has been charged with taking part in burning civilians alive in a house in Bikavac in June 1992, as well as rape, inhumane acts, and other crimes which took place in Visegrad.

After reading the testimonies of Vidakovic and OK-18, Krsmanovic’s defense concluded its presentation of evidence.
 
Prosecutor Mirko Lecic said the state prosecution would introduce as additional evidence excerpts from a documentary film shot in Belgrade.
 
The trial chamber accepted this evidence and the documentary will be shown to the judges on April 14.