Gašović kept a list of camp inmates and followed the persecution

Some 15 days later, on May 26, 1992, around 16 p.m., I was watching TV. It was warm and I opened the window. I saw a refugee carrying a child and some Serbian residents from the building below. Then I cursed because of what I saw and because of the overall situation. It must be that they registered me the next morning as well Zoran Gasovic i Mladen Tolj with a nickname Gaga they came to the apartment and started questioning me. That was my apartment. They told me: 'Don't make us throw you out!' I read their names on their uniforms, and I didn't know them before. Zoran wanted to take me away, but Mladen said that I was depressed because of house arrest and that I should be forgiven. They left and no one came again until September 7, 1992," he testified Zijad Okić, a bricklayer from Hadžić before the Hague Tribunal in June 1997, at the trial of the former president of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadžić.

In the testimony, which "Vijesti" discovered through a search of the public part of the database of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts, Okić described how he spent months in a kind of house arrest in Hadžići, near Sarajevo, and then how he and his family were taken to exchange...

In his testimony, he mentioned in several places the accused police officer from Nikšić, Zoran Gašović, against whom the Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment on June 19 of this year for crimes against humanity committed in the area of ​​Hadžić in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1992.

Gašović was 21 years old at the time and was a member of the Bosnian Serb civilian police, and as the SDT claims in the indictment, "he participated in murders and carried out enslavement, forced relocations, torture, persecution on religious and ethnic grounds, unlawful imprisonment of persons and other similar inhuman acts"...

"On that day (September 7, 1992, op.a) Zoran Gašović, again in uniform, came at 9.30:XNUMX a.m. with a girl in a camouflage uniform. I didn't know her, but I later found out that I knew her mother Glory, who was my colleague, and I was told that was her nickname Drink. Zoran was the first to speak and said that we have half an hour to get dressed, my wife and children, pick up our things and go to the meeting place in front of the kindergarten. We were told that we would be exchanged and that buses would take us to Kobiljaca. In my street, all Muslims are and there were about 200 of us with women and children", he stated before the Tribunal.

Okić also remembered a man with a nickname Trifko that he is in charge, and that they were accompanying during the transportation to the exchange Rade Veselinović, Trbic, Zoran Gašović - all policemen.

"That day, they kept us in the buses from 13:20 p.m. to 9:12 p.m., but there was no exchange and they placed us in a large sports hall, where we had nothing to sleep on. The next day the buses came at XNUMX and we went to the exchange point again, but it didn't happen again. The Serbs from the Exchange Commission were angry and wanted to kill the people from the first two buses. I didn't hear it, but my wife told me that a Serb got on her bus, cursed at 'Balinese mothers' and threatened to die," stated Okić, who noted that they were kept in the hall for XNUMX days, and that they received food every third day. days...

In the Mechanizma database, "Vijesti" searched and found a document or statement of a former journalist from Hadžič Adem Balić, which he gave to the BiH authorities on February 17, 1993, and which also mentioned Gašović as a policeman in the camp of the sports hall in that place.

"Never and no one while I was imprisoned in the sports hall in Hadžići, and even later, conducted any interrogation, nor did I sign any statement. At first, the lists of prisoners were kept by Zoran Gašović on one piece of paper, while later they organized better records in one notebook in which they entered all the prisoners. He was bringing her Simo Kuzman and let me register all the newly arrived prisoners", he stated.

The hearing for the review of the SDT indictment was held on June 11, when Gašović's lawyer Danilo Micovic requested that the panel of judges Nenada Vujanović, due to lack of evidence, suspend the proceedings against the police officer from Nikšić for war crimes.

Mićović requested that the evidence collected by investigative authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina be excluded from the case file "as legally invalid".

At the end of next week, the extrajudicial criminal panel of Judge Vujanović will announce a decision whether to confirm the SDT indictment or accept the defense's proposal and reject the prosecutor's document.

War crimes committed in Hadžići, where around 700 people were forcibly held for months in the sports hall and Garage camps, where, according to the indictment, Gašović participated in the mass persecution of Bosniaks and Croats from Hadžići, the imprisonment of people in a concentration camp and the deportation of around 200 Bosniaks to the Lukavica barracks , of which about 60 people were shot.

In Hadžići, a day is celebrated every year in front of the monument in that place where it is written:

"Let's remember more than 500 citizens of Hadžić, camp inmates, prisoners, victims of war crimes and genocide during the aggression on BiH in 1992-1995. years. Not to be forgotten, not to be repeated."

"Hadžići, a crime without punishment"

Almost 30 members of two families from Hadžić were killed during the war in executions, and the name of Zoran Gašović is allegedly associated with most of the murders, as the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina reported in 2017.

"There are 59 graves in Hadžići. During the war, almost 250 persons were listed as missing. Even today, 90 people from Hadžić are being sought. On June 26, 6, this criminal took Alija Bašić (my father), Alija Kovačević and Ramiz Hrgić out of the camp, and then, after they were beaten to death, shot. Their bodies were exhumed in 1992 on the slopes of Igman. Both in the cantonal MUP and in the cantonal prosecutor's office, there are notes and statements of witnesses, as well as in the courts", it is written in the book "Hadžići, crime without punishment".