Testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with crimes in the Teslic area, a defense witness and former fighter described an order issued to shoot Bosniak captives in the village of Rankovic at the beginning of the summer of 1992.
Defense witnesses testified at the trial of six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army and Mice paramilitary formation. The witnesses said defendant Zoran Sljuka and Ljubisa Petricevic were Mice members with the highest amount of responsibility for attacks conducted on the villages of Stenjak and Rankovici in June 1992. The attacks were part of an operation led by Serb military and police formations aimed at disarming the village residents.
Testifying in his own defense at the trial of six former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with crimes committed in Teslic, Dario Slavuljica said fighters who shot civilians on Mount Borje couldn’t reject the order to do so.
Defendant Dario Slavuljica, a former member of the Mice paramilitary unit, admitted to shooting prisoners on Mount Borje after he was ordered to do so by Dragan Marjanovic.
A forensic expert testified at the trial of six former members of the Bosnian Serb military and police forces charged with war crimes in Teslic. The expert said she examined 28 mortal remains in Bebe on Mount Borje and found injuries on them, indicating that they died violent deaths.
Seven state prosecution witnesses testifying at the trial of six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army and paramilitary formations said their families were taken away from the Teslic area in 1992. Their remains were found in various mass graves.
Testifying at the trial of six former members of the Mice paramilitary formation, six state prosecution witnesses confirmed that their family members were exhumed from a mass grave on Mount Borje, near Teslic, in 1999.
State prosecution witnesses testifying at the trial of six former Bosnian Serb fighters said their fathers were taken away when members of the Mice paramilitary formation showed up to their village. They said the remains of their fathers were exhumed on Mount Borje later on.
State prosecution witnesses testifying at the trial of six former members of Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary forces in Teslic said Bosnian Serb forces abused civilians in the village of Irice at the beginning of June 1992. The bodies of the civilians were eventually found in a mass grave on Mount Borje.
A state prosecution witness testifying against members of the Mice paramilitary formation said he participated in digging a mass grave on Mount Borje in the municipality of Teslic in 1992.