A protected State Prosecution witness says that he heard that indictee Edin Dzeko was among the soldiers who mistreated Croat detainees a little in Jablanica in the second half of 1993.
Zoran Babic has been arrested after the Bosnian State Court issued a warrant for his detention, because he failed to appear at the reading of a verdict under which he was sentenced to 22 years for crimes on Koricanske Stijene.
During the trial of Nihad Bojadzic, who is charged with crimes in Jablanica, a State Prosecution witness says that, one day after they had been brought to a museum and detained in it, detainees quietly spoke “about rape of two females”.
Testifying at the trial of Edin Dzeko, a local resident from Trusina village near Konjic says that, in the morning on April 16, 1993 unknown soldiers ran by his house and went towards Croat houses, adding that he heard, later during that day, that “many Croats were killed in Gaj hamlet”.
Continuing his testimony at the trial for crimes committed in Konjic, a former soldier of the Zulfikar detachment of the Bosnian army said that the murders were committed “while they were clearing the ground”.
A Bosnian prosecution witness, Rasema Handanovic, said that the defendant, Edin Dzeko, killed an elderly Bosnian Croat couple in an attack on Trusina village near Konjic in April 1993.
Handanovic, a former member of the Zulifkar special purposes detachment of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that Dzeko was a member of her unit and killed the couple with a burst of fire from an automatic rifle.
A State Prosecution witness says that he felt like "a lamb waiting to be slaughtered", while he was detained in Dretelj detention camp, near Capljina during the summer of 1992.
As the trial for Dretelj crimes continued, witness Mile Bjelobaba said that guards used to "beat, molest or threaten" them, adding that two detainees did not survive.