Milorad Topic, a former member of the Croatian Defense Council from Bugojno, plead not guilty before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik to war crimes committed in the Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje area in 1993.
A defense witness testifying at the Josip Maric trial said he remembered picking up a man who was waving a white handkerchief in the village of Han Ploca in 1993, and taking him to the police station in Kiseljak.
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.
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.