"Colleague Petar Cosic and I were on duty in the village of Prkos when we were informed that civilians were killed in Banski Kovacevac. We arrived there and saw that there was nobody in several houses which were known to be inhabited by civilians. After that, in the yard owned by Grga Mihalic, a soldier in a camouflage uniform cocked his gun at us and demanded that we go away," said the witness, who is currently a police officer in the northern Serbian town of Ruma.
Rabljenovic said that at the time there were several uniformed soldiers in Mihalic's yard and that now it seems to him that it was Rade Bulat who cocked the gun at him, adding however that he was not positive about that.
According to the witness, the incident took place in late March 1992, when he saw a destroyed well in Mihalic's yard and pieces of clothes scattered around.
The witness said that he had arrived again in early April that year and that the well was covered up and there were no traces of anything having happened before.
Addressing the trial chamber, defendant Bulat said that he was the man who asked Rabljenovic and his colleague to leave the crime scene, but refuted claims that he had held a gun on that occasion or that he had cocked it at the witness.
The trial will resume on 9 September.
The indictment says that from 19 to 23 March 1992 Bulat and another security officer, Rade Vranesevic, murdered six elderly civilians who had not left Banski Kovacevac with other residents. Five women and a man aged between 63 and 81 were brought on Bulat's orders to a yard where Bulat and Vranesevic shot them dead with automatic rifles.
The bodies of the victims -- Grga Mihalic, Bara Mihalic, Kata Mihalic, Veronika Krupic, Mara Lesar and Mara Djerek -- were dumped on Bulat's orders into a nearby well, which was then blown up with explosive.
The Croatian State Attorney's Office referred the case to the Belgrade court in May 2007 based on an agreement on cooperation in war crimes prosecution.