Person: Karkelja Suljo

Testifying for the district prosecution in Eastern Sarajevo, witnesses confirmed that several Bosnian Serb Army captives were detained in a police station in Gorazde after their capture in Trovrh by Bosnian Army forces. They didn’t know where they were taken afterwards.

A witness testifying at the trial of four former Bosnian Army soldiers said he drove prisoners from a silo in Kopaci to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Gorazde, and left them there.

A prosecution witness testifying at the trial of four Bosnian soldiers, said he communicated with a Bosnian Serb soldier, captured by the defendants at the Trovrh relay station, for the last time on August 23, 1992.

While testifying at the trial of four former members of the Bosnian Army, a witness said he didn’t surrender after an attack on a relay station at Trovrh by Bosnian Serb Army forces, but fled the following evening.

A prosecution witness told the a courtroom in the district court of Eastern Sarajevo about his father’s arrest and disappearance at the trial of four former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes in Gorazde.

Defense witnesses at the trial of four former Bosnian Army soldiers accused of killing prisoners of war described the disappearance of their family members before the district court of Eastern Sarajevo.

District prosecution witness Mira Lasica said she heard her son’s voice calling for help after his capture by members of the Bosnian Army in Gorazde.

The trial of several former Bosnian Army members charged with murdering prisoners of war in Gorazde began today with a reading of the indictment, introductory statements, and the examination of the first district prosecution witness.

Muhamed Adzem, Omer Ugljesa, Senad Halilovic and Suljo Karkelja appear before the District Court in Eastern Sarajevo and plead not guilty of crimes against prisoners of war in Gorazde in 1992.