ZAGREB, June 10 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Court will for the first time in its work store data on CD/ROMs in the continuation of the trial of Dinko Sakic, commander of the World War II concentration camp Jasenovac, in Zagreb next
week. Numerous documents representing material evidence, to be presented next week, will be stored on a CD/ROM and submitted to the defence and the prosecutor. The prosecution (the Zagreb County State Attorney's Office) has suggested that about 60 documents, including regulations applied in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and documents compiled during and after World War II, be read out at the main hearing. The panel of judges, chaired by Drazen Tripalo, decided that the evidence not be read out in full. The spokesman for and Vice President of the Zagreb County Court, Damir Kos, told reporters today judge Tripalo would present the contents of each document in short, with docu
ZAGREB, June 10 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Court will for the first
time in its work store data on CD/ROMs in the continuation of the
trial of Dinko Sakic, commander of the World War II concentration
camp Jasenovac, in Zagreb next week.
Numerous documents representing material evidence, to be presented
next week, will be stored on a CD/ROM and submitted to the defence
and the prosecutor.
The prosecution (the Zagreb County State Attorney's Office) has
suggested that about 60 documents, including regulations applied
in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and documents compiled
during and after World War II, be read out at the main hearing.
The panel of judges, chaired by Drazen Tripalo, decided that the
evidence not be read out in full.
The spokesman for and Vice President of the Zagreb County Court,
Damir Kos, told reporters today judge Tripalo would present the
contents of each document in short, with documents being shown on a
screen in the court room and the reporters' room, so that it could be
followed by both the public and journalists.
Kos said it was for the panel of judges to decide whether the CD/ROM
with the prosecution's evidence would be available for
journalists.
The prosecution's evidence also includes a copy of Sakic's personal
file, compiled by the National Commission for Establishing War
Crimes Committed by the Occupying Forces and their Collaborators,
and a charter "The Sign of Loyalty" Sakic was awarded as an Ustashi
lieutenant.
Despite opposition by Sakic's defence, a copy of the record of the
Split Jewish Community of June 1945 will also be presented as
evidence, as will a brochure of the Belgrade Genocide Museum and the
Yugoslav Federal Institute for Statistics containing a list o
Jasenovac victims between April and November 1944, when Sakic was
the camp's commander.
The defence, which doubts that these documents are authentic, also
opposed the request that an interview with Sakic, published by the
"Panorama" weekly in February 1995 under the headline "I Don't Feel
Remorse Over Jasenovac", be read out. The panel of judges is to
decide about that piece of evidence once it obtains a certified copy
of the interview.
Kos expected that the presentation of evidence by the prosecution
could end at the end of next week, after which, if there is no new
evidence, Sakic could present his defence.
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