SARAJEVO, Bosnia (September 25,2008) - The first Prosecution witness was examined yesterday before the Bosnian State Court at the trial of Serbian war criminals Vinko Kondic,Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic,in the absence of Serbian war criminal Vinko Kondic, who refused to appear at the hearing,without giving any "justification" for that.
"We have been informed by health service doctors that the indictee is mentally and physically capable of attending the trial. As usual, on the eve of this hearing he said that he was not able to attend due to his health state. The indictee will be given an audio recording of this hearing already today," Trial Chamber Chairwoman Jasmina Kosovic said.
The start of the trial of the three Serbian fascists, has been postponed several times due to Kondic's bad health.
The Bosnian state Prosecution examined a concentration camp survivor Fahrudin Cemal, as its first witness at the trial of three former members of the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor's formations, charged with genocide and other war crimes committed against Bosnian civilians in the Bosnian town of Kljuc during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia
"We have been informed by health service doctors that the indictee is mentally and physically capable of attending the trial. As usual, on the eve of this hearing he said that he was not able to attend due to his health state. The indictee will be given an audio recording of this hearing already today," Trial Chamber Chairwoman Jasmina Kosovic said.
The Bosnian State Prosecutor charges Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic with having participated in organising a group of people and abetting them to commit genocide. The three indictees committed crime against humanity and war crimes in Kljuc municipality in the course of 1992.
The witness Fahrudin Cemal said that, on May 7, 1992 the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor took over the local administration in Kljuc.
As indicated by Cemal, on May 28, 1992 members of the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor;s formations detained him and other Bosnian civilians from Velagici, in Kljuc municipality, taking them to a school building then to a concentration camp in Stara Gradiska, where they stayed until "late June or early July".
"They took 30 or 40 of us from Stara Gradiska to the Manjaca concentration camp, where people from Kljuc, Doboj and Sanski Most had been held. The concentration camp was surrounded by wired fencing and a minefield. We were all tortured and beaten. This place was a scaffolding of crime," the witness said.
The witness further stated to have been taken from the Batkovic concentration camp,near the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina back to the Manjaca concentration camp in October 1993, adding that he was exchanged on mount Vlasic two days later.
The trial of Serbian war criminals Vinko Kondic,Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic is due to continue before the Bosnian State Court on Monday, September 29.
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