A cantonal prosecution witness testifying that the Josip Relota trial said she heard someone with the last name Relota had killed the family members of a Zenicatrans employee during the war.
The 22nd anniversary of the death of 116 Bosniak civilians who were killed by extreme elements of the Croatian Defense Council was commemorated today in Ahmici, near Vitez.
Testifying at the Josip Relota trial, a witness said he heard bursts of gunfire and explosions during an attack on the town of Busovca. The witness said he saw the bodies of his neighbours the next day.
The cantonal court in Travnik sentenced Bruno Saric, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, to four years in prison for seizing a man who was never seen alive again afterwards.
The Cantonal prosecution in Travnik requested that Bruno Saric be found guilty of war crimes in Travnik. The defense called for a not guilty verdict. The pronouncement of the verdict is scheduled for April 7.
Testifying before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik, prosecution witness Edib Sojtaric said he watched the abduction of his former neighbour Aleksa Kostres with his neighbours wife. Sojtaric said Kostres was abducted by Croatian Defence Council members, including the defendant, Bruno Saric.
At todays hearing of the Bruno Saric trial at the Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik, defense witnesses said that Aleksa Kostres was abducted by members of the Croatian Defence Council from Herzegovina.