ZAGREB, April 9 (Hina) - The trial against the former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II, Dinko Sakic, will continue next week with testimonies from Gabriel Winter, Vjekoslav Bednjanec, Ljubomir Saric
and Dragutin Skrgatic, vice-president of the Zagreb County Court, Damir Kos, said on Friday. Expressing satisfaction with the media coverage of the trial and events in the courtroom, which, he said, was at a high professional level, Kos warned about the necessity of precise reporting and quoting when it comes to witness testimonies. He recalled witness Mirjana Radman turning to the court, requesting a correction of a newspaper article which had misstated her words. In the central news programme on the Croatian Television of April 6, it was said Radman had been "arrested in Banja Luka in 1996". After reviewing the tape, it was established she did not say that, but rather that she had bee
ZAGREB, April 9 (Hina) - The trial against the former commander of
the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II, Dinko Sakic,
will continue next week with testimonies from Gabriel Winter,
Vjekoslav Bednjanec, Ljubomir Saric and Dragutin Skrgatic, vice-
president of the Zagreb County Court, Damir Kos, said on Friday.
Expressing satisfaction with the media coverage of the trial and
events in the courtroom, which, he said, was at a high professional
level, Kos warned about the necessity of precise reporting and
quoting when it comes to witness testimonies.
He recalled witness Mirjana Radman turning to the court, requesting
a correction of a newspaper article which had misstated her words.
In the central news programme on the Croatian Television of April 6,
it was said Radman had been "arrested in Banja Luka in 1996".
After reviewing the tape, it was established she did not say that,
but rather that she had been "exiled from Banja Luka in 1996 and in
19412 when she was forced into the Jasenovac camp". She said she was
not "arrested" then.
Citing the example of Mirjana Radman who was kept in the Jasenovac
camp from June to December 1942, and who had never seen or heard of
Sakic, reporters wanted to know why witnesses were being put on the
stand who had no knowledge about the defendant and who were not in
the camp while Sakic was the commander.
Kos said it was "difficult to discuss this now".
"It is not upon us to discuss this. The panel of judges is calling
witnesses the County State Attorney's Office has listed in the
indictment and suggested they be heard, and which was accepted by
the panel of judges," Kos stressed.
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