Case: Stanarevic Zeljko

Testifying in his own defense, Zeljko Stanarevic said he didn’t participate in an attack on the Ljutocka Valley in the municipality of Bihac during the summer of 1992. He said he saw prisoners from a detention camp in Ripac once, when he was given a ride on a truck transporting the prisoners.

A defense witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said he believed he gave the defendant, a former Bosnian Serb military police officer, a drive to the Gorjevac area in Bihac. The witness, also a member of the military police, was driving civilian detainees to Hrgar, a village in the municipality of Bihac.

The defense of Zeljko Stanarevic began its presentation of evidence by examining three witnesses. Stanarevic has been charged with war crimes in the Bihac area.

A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zeljko Stanarevic said Bosniaks were forced to leave their houses in the Kulen Vakuf and Orasac area in the municipality of Bihac in the summer of 1992.

A state prosecution witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said the defendant and a military security officer took away prisoners who were detained in the IMP company warehouse in the village of Ripac.

State prosecution witnesses said they received information that the remains of a large group of detainees from a detention camp in Ripac, in the municipality of Bihac, had been found in the Bezdan Pit.