13 MORE WITNESSES TO BE QUESTIONED IN SAKIC CASE

( Editorial: --> 7147 ) ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - The investigating judge of the Zagreb County Court will hear 13 more witnesses in the pre-trial proceedings against Dinko Sakic, commander of a Croatian World War Two concentration camp in Jasenovac. It is still necessary to hear five witnesses from Split and three from Zagreb, Zagreb County Court president Miroslav Sumanovic said on Friday. Through diplomatic channels, four witnesses from Yugoslavia and one from Bosnia-Herzegovina have been called to testify, following a suggestion from the representative of an injured party. They will be questioned in November. In the pre-trial proceedings from June 19 and October 7, a total of 39 witnesses testified at 36 hearings. The county state attorney so far suggested 47 witnesses in the Sakic case. Five witnesses were questioned outside of Zagreb - in Pula, Rijeka, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Sisak, and Topusko, while six were questioned at home or in homes for the elderly due to illness or other obstacles. The Zagreb County Court investigation file against Sakic contains Croatian State Archives documents on Jasenovac and Stara Gradiska, another WW2 concentration camp in Croatia, documents submitted through the Croatian Justice Ministry by the Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre director Efraim Zuroff, a section of the archives of the Croatian Museum of History in Zagreb, a 515-page document submitted through the Justice Ministry by the United States Ambassador for War Crimes Issues David J. Scheffer, documents submitted to the Croatian Foreign Minister during his July visit to the U.S., a statement by Israeli citizen Ervin Rozenberg, made at the Notarial Office in Israel in July and submitted to Croatia's Ambassador to Austria, and documents from the International Red Cross Archives Fund, obtained through the Croatian State Archives. In the line with the Croatian Law on Criminal Proceedings, detention during pre-trial proceedings may not extend over six months, which means that in the case of Sakic, in detention since June 18, 1998, it expires on December 18, 1998. (hina) ha 091555 MET oct 98