At the trial for the deportation of Muslims and Serbs in May 1992, then Prime Minister Milo Đukanović and former member of the Presidency of the Republic of Montenegro Svetozar Marović will not testify, the court decided.
The council of judge Milenko Žižić rejected the proposal of the lawyer Branislav Lutovac, the defense attorney of Milorad Ivanović, and it was also rejected to examine the then officials Zoran Žižić and Milica Pejanović Đurišić as witnesses before the court.
After hearing two witnesses, the specialized panel of judge Milenko Žižić ended the evidence proceedings in the High Court against the nine defendants for the deportation of Muslims and Serbs in May 1992 from Montenegro by the authorities of Republika Srpska.
Closing remarks on February 15
According to the indictment of Lidija Vukčević, deputy special prosecutor, Boško M. Bojović, Milisav-Mića M. Marković, Radoje B. Radunović, Duško D. Bakrač, Božidar J. Stojović aka Božo, Milorad M. Ivanović, Milorad D. Šljivančanin, Branko- Banjo I. Bujić and Sreten Lj. Glenđž, committed the criminal offense of war crimes against the civilian population under Article 142 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Judge Žižić invited the prosecutor and the defense lawyers to give their closing arguments.
The prosecutor asked for a postponement because she needs time to specify the indictment. The judge set a new date for closing arguments - February 15.
According to the indictment, in May 1992, in Podgorica, Herceg Novi, Bar and Ulcinj, in violation of the rules of international law, during the armed conflict on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the accused carried out illegal resettlement of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, of Muslim and Serbian nationality, who had the status of refugees. , executing the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Montenegro, the late Pavle Bulatović.
The order was to act according to the requests of the MUP of the Republika Srpska, to arrest the persons who came from the territory of BiH to Montenegro and return them to BiH.
Boško Bojović, in his capacity as Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs for State Security, demanded from the officials employed in all security centers and departments in Montenegro, that in cooperation with the officials of the public security affairs sector, militia bodies in the Republic of Srpska, collect data on refugees and they deliver them to the SDB administration and the MUP of Montenegro.
After that, the defendant Marković, in his capacity as Assistant Minister for Public Security, sent telegram number 14 - 101 dated May 23, 1992 to the employees of the security centers and departments, in which he requested to act on the request of the MUP of the Republika Srpska, that all persons from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Serbian nationality, aged between 18 and 60, are detained for the purpose of returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They arrested 79 BiH citizens
Acting on their requests, the defendant Radunović, in his capacity as the head of the SDB security affairs sector in Herceg Novi, the late Slobodan Medenica, in his capacity as the head of the SDB security affairs sector in Bar, and the defendant Stojović, the head of the SDB affairs sector in Ulcinj, collected and obtained data. from Republika Srpska, and then delivered them and informed the SDB administration, from whom they received instructions on how to deal with these persons.
The defendant Ivanović, as the head of the CB in Herceg Novi, his assistant the late Damjan Turković, and Šljivančanin, as the commander of the militia station in Herceg Novi, the defendant Bujić, the head of the CB in Bar and Glendža, the head of the OB in Ulcinj, based on information received from Radunović, Bakrač , Medenica and Stojović, and on the basis of telegrams, demanded from the officials in the aforementioned centers and security departments to identify citizens from BiH, arrest them and return them to their home country.
After that, the defendants illegally arrested and relocated 79 BiH citizens, handing them over to the SUP Sokolac, SUP and KPD Foča and SUP Srebrenica.
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