ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, June 16 (Hina) - A protected witness for the prosecution, registered as B-1047, spoke in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague on Monday about how he survived a mass execution during
the war in Bosnia.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, June 16 (Hina) - A protected witness for the
prosecution, registered as B-1047, spoke in the trial of former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague on Monday about
how he survived a mass execution during the war in Bosnia. #L#
Zeljko Raznatovic aka Arkan's troops captured the witness in the
village of Poljak and, along with 11 other Bosnian Muslims, took him
to an execution location. Tied up in pairs, the civilians were
executed in a garage.
The prisoners pleaded for their lives, said the witness. One of the
soldiers offered to spare their lives in exchange for DM5,000, but
when the captives said they did not have the money, they were
executed, the witness testified.
He described how he lay wounded, listening to Arkan's soldiers
killing the other Bosniaks.
B-1047 said he had been shot in the shoulder and the collar bone,
after which he fell to the ground and stayed quiet. While the Serbs
killed other prisoners, he was shot again, in the leg.
After shooting all of the prisoners, Arkan troops checked with
flashlights whether any of them survived and shot them one last
time. The witness was shot in the chin and was the only one to
survive the execution.
After the soldiers had gone, the witness dragged himself to a road,
hoping to be found. But as nobody came by for the rest of that day,
the entire night and next day, he went to Poljak village where a Serb
friend helped him. The witness said the friend told him that the
location of the execution was the Trnova village. The witness said
the Serb friend had taken him to hospital in Banja Luka.
The trial continues tomorrow.
(hina) lml