Trnovo Witness Recalls Discovery of Married Couple’s Bodies

Ibricic testified that even after the Bosnian Army had taken over control of the area, the Serb couple, Pero and Milka Golijanin, remained in the neighbouring village, Bistrocaj, which was inhabited by Serbs.

“[Two other men called] Husein Mulaomerovic and Dzemail Kadic went to the field in order to reconnoitre the area. On that occasion they found the bodies of Pero and his wife, who had been killed, in [another village called] Lucila,” Ibricic said.

Ibricic denied having seen the bodies of the Golijanins. The prosecution said that, in a statement he gave in November 1992, he said he was at the crime scene, but the witness insisted he did not remember being there.

He said he inquired how they died and on the basis of what he was told, he suspected that the witness Zijo Ibricic and his brother Osman had killed them.

According to the charges, Godinjak was the chief of the public security station in Trnovo, Saric was the commander of the Territorial Defence Headquarters, while Bunoza was a commander of Croatian Defence Forces units.

Witnesses Branislav Stanojevic and Radivoje Ostojic said they hid in houses in Zalazje on July 12, 1992 and tried to fend off a Bosnian Army attack, but Bosniak forces eventually entered the village.

“I saw them run away across a farmer’s field. I heard someone shouting: ‘Catch them alive, they are coming your way,’” Stanojevic recalled.

The indictment alleges that Oric and Muhic also killed two more captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers in villages in the Bratunac and Srebrenica area.