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SUD BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE СУД БОСНЕ И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНЕ COURT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Case No.: X-KR-06/180-2 Date: Delivered 22 April 2010 Published 2 July 2010 Before: Judge Senadin Begtašević, Presiding Judge Vesna Jasenković Judge David Re PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA v. RADOMIR VUKOVIĆ ZORAN TOMIĆ VERDICT Counsel for the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mr. Ibro Bulić, Prosecutor Counsel for Radomir Vuković: Counsel for Zoran Tomić: Mr. Radivoje Lazarević Mr. Petko Pavlović Mr. Rade Golić Mr. Miloš Perić PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/d2a31b/ INDEX TO VERDICT – TABLE OF CONTENTS REASONING ....................................................................................................................... 10 I. THE INDICTMENT........................................................................................................ 10 II. EXISTENCE OF AN ARMED CONFLICT................................................................. 12 III. THE SECOND ŠEKOVIČI DETACHMENT AND THE TWO ACCUSED............ 13 IV. SECOND ŠEKOVIĆI DETACHMENT FIELD MISSION TO SREDNJE IN JUNE 1995 ............................................................................................................................ 16 Findings............................................................................................................................. 19 V. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN SREBRENICA ..................................................... 20 (i)Evidence admitted under Law of Transfer of Cases………………………………. 20 (ii) Creation of “safe areas” and presence of UNPROFOR and UNMO.............. 22 (iii) RS Supreme Command Directive no. 7 of 8 March 1995 and no. 7.1 of 31 March 1995 and implementation .............................................................. 29 (iv) Evidence of Miroslav Deronjić ........................................................................... 32 VI. JUNE TO JULY 1995 – LEAD-UP TO VRS MILITARY TAKEOVER OF SREBRENICA ..................................................................................................................... 33 VII. THE VRS TAKEOVER OF SREBRENICA AND ITS AFTERMATH IN JULY 1995... 35 (i) 6 July 1995 ................................................................................................................ 36 (ii) 7 to 8 July 1995......................................................................................................... 36 (iii) 9 July 1995 ................................................................................................................ 38 (iv) 10 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 40 (v) 11 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 41 Meetings at Hotel Fontana in Bratunac between UNPROFOR and General Mladić45 (vi) 12 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 46 3rd Meeting at Hotel Fontana.......................................................................................... 51 Separation of men from women, children and elderly ................................................. 52 Meeting in SDS office in Bratunac on night of 12 July 1995 ........................................... 58 (vii) 13 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 61 First mass-executions of Bosnian Muslim prisoners..................................................... 66 (viii.) 14 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 68 (ix) 15 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 72 (x) 16 July 1995 .............................................................................................................. 74 (xi) 17 to 28 July 1995..................................................................................................... 75 Findings............................................................................................................................. 77 VIII. SUBORDINATION OF THE MUP TO THE VRS IN SREBRENICA OPERATION …………………………………………………………………….77 Findings............................................................................................................................. 80 IX. ROLE OF THE SECOND ŠEKOVIĆI DETACHMENT AND ITS DEPLOYMENT TO SREBRENICA AREA ON 12 JULY 1995 .................................... 80 Findings............................................................................................................................. 83 X. SECOND ŠEKOVIĆI DETACHMENT AND MUP SEARCH OF BUDAK AREA ABOVE POTOČARI............................................................................................................... 84 Findings............................................................................................................................. 84 2 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/d2a31b/ Evidence............................................................................................................................ 85 XI. PARTICIPATION OF THE ACCUSED IN THE SEARCH OF BUDAK AREA ABOVE POTOČARI........................................................................................................... 94 Findings............................................................................................................................. 94 XII. DID THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE SEARCH DO SO WITH THE INTENTION OF FORCIBLY DEPORTING THE BOSNIAN MUSLIM POPULATION FROM SREBRENICA ............................................................................ 95 Findings............................................................................................................................. 96 XIII. DEPLOYMENT OF SECOND ŠEKOVIĆI DETACHMENT ON KONJEVIĆ POLJE TO BRATUNAC ROAD ON 12 JULY 1995 AFTER SEARCH OF BUDAK AREA NEAR POTOČARI ........................................................................... 97 Findings............................................................................................................................. 97 Evidence............................................................................................................................ 98 XIV. ATTACK BY ABiH ON POLICE UNITS ON ROAD ON MORNING OF 13 JULY 1995 .......................................................................................................................... 102 Findings........................................................................................................................... 103 XV. DEPLOYMENT OF 2ND ŠEKOVIIĆI DETACHMENT ON KONJEVIĆ POLJE TO BRATUNAC ROAD ON 13 JULY 1995..................................................... 103 (i) Presence of Radomir Vuković and Zoran Tomić on Konjević Polje to Bratunac Road on 13 July 1995......................................................................................................... 107 Findings........................................................................................................................... 108 XVI. SURRENDER OF BOSNIAN MUSLIMS ALONG KONJEVIĆ POLJE TO BRATUNAC ROAD .......................................................................................................... 108 Findings........................................................................................................................... 111 XVII. WHETHER ZORAN TOMIĆ SEARCHED PRISONERS FOR MONEY AND VALUABLES ........................................................................................................... 111 Findings........................................................................................................................... 112 XVIII. EVIDENCE OF SURVIVORS IN THE COLUMN ....................................... 113 WITNESSES D1, D2 AND ENVER HUSIĆ ................................................................... 113 (i) In-court identification of Zoran Tomić by Enver Husić .................................... 117 XIX. PARTICIPATION IN A RECONNAISSANCE OPERATION AND ATTACKING A COLUMN OF BOSNIAKS ABOVE KAMENICA........................... 118 XX. PRISONERS AT SANDIĆI MEADOW.............................................................. 118 VISIT OF GENERAL RATKO MLADIĆ...................................................................... 118 Findings........................................................................................................................... 122 XXI. PRISONERS AT SANDIĆI MEADOW.......................................................... 123 TREATMENT OF PRISONERS ON SANDIĆI MEADOW ........................................ 123 Findings........................................................................................................................... 126 (i) Number of prisoners and soldiers/MUP officers on Sandici meadow .............. 126 XXIII. PRESENCE OF RADOMIR VUKOVIĆ AND ZORAN TOMIĆ ON THE SANDIĆI MEADOW ........................................................................................................ 127 Findings........................................................................................................................... 128 XXIV. CONVOYS OF CIVILIANS FROM SREBRENICA .................................... 128 Evidence.........................................................................................................................