Witness Describes Rumours of Serb Bodies in Ladjeva Stijena
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The district prosecution of Eastern Sarajevo has charged Muhamed Adzem, Omer Ugljesa, Senad Halilovic and Suljo Karkelja, all former members of the Bosnian Army, with participating in the murder of seven prisoners of war of the Bosnian Serb Army on September 17, 1992.
The prisoners of war were allegedly captured on August 21, 1992, and were then detained in the municipal secretariat for internal affairs in Gorazde. According to the indictment, they were then taken to Ladjeva Stijena in the village of Kopaci, where they were killed.
Nermin Supac, a former member of the Kopacki Battalion of the Bosnian Army, testified at today’s hearing. Supac said that according to his findings, the captives were probably transported from Trovrh to a silo in Kopaci in the municipality of Gorazde, before being transferred to Gorazde. He said he knew one of the captives, Brane Todorovic.
Supac said he performed civilian tasks and occasionally visited his house in the village of Podmasici at the beginning of September 1992.
“After about a month I heard rumours that some bodies had been found near the locality of Ladjeva Stijena,” Supac said.
He said “everyone knew” there were bodies in Ladjeva Stijena and assumed the victims were Serbs. He said no one went to Ladjeva Stijena as the area was mined.
He said he didn’t know what ended up happening to the bodies.
The trial will continue on February 18.
