DOBROVOLJAČKA: VRS veteran testified against Ganić and others, today spoke completely differently compared to 2011.

By: A. Čorbo-Zećo

In the continuation of the trial in the 'Dobrovoljačka' case, prosecution witness Zdeno Milinčić spoke today about the events of May 2 and 3, 1992, completely differently than he did in 2011 during his testimony in Banja Luka. And he is not the first witness who only now remembered lilies on berets, and turned the citizens they spoke about earlier into uniformed individuals.

However, this is the first witness who is fully aware of the contradictions in his statement, claiming that he did not see the 2011 statement, even though the record states that the statement was made in four copies, one of which was given to the witness.
Prosecutor Mladen Vukojičić then asked the witness to say whether what he said today was true, which he confirmed, but he did not deny the 2011 statement either!?

Otherwise, Milinčić 'boasted' that he served in the Army of Republika Srpska for 53 months and 29 days, and lawyer Mirna Avdibegović insisted that the witness state where this military service was recorded and whether he had been involved in any other wartime events before the events of May 1992.

The witness stated that his military service also included five months outside of combat (!?). Milinčić served in the JNA in Bihać in 1991, then was transferred to Zagreb, and then in March 1992, he came to the Command of the Second Military District in the barracks at Bistrik.

He recounted how the Command of the Second Military District was attacked on May 2, and told the defense that he also fired on May 2.

Lawyer for Zaim Backović, Jesenka Rešidović, confronted Milinčić with the 2011 statement in which he did not mention lilies or any other insignia at all, while today he said that uniformed individuals with berets bearing lilies attacked them in the column.

“I didn’t mention it before, because at that time only the JNA was legal for me, everything else were paramilitary units,” said this witness.

When asked by lawyer Avdibegović if he was aware of the fact that the JNA ceased to exist on April 27, 1992, Milinčić said that he was not aware.

This witness also stated that the individuals who captured them took them across the Miljacka to the FIS Vitez hall (!?) where some were beaten and cursed with the epithet 'Chetnik mother'. He said it was in Baščaršija, and later said that he did not know Sarajevo, because he is from Derventa.

He recounted that the gathered citizens threw stones at them and cursed them until they reached FIS. He admitted that there was chaos, but in response to further questions from the prosecutor, he claimed that there was chaos among the JNA members!

He said that they went to Lukavica on May 5, from where he went to Han Pijesak and then joined the Army of Republika Srpska, thus becoming a veteran.

In addition to Ejup Ganić, the indictment of the BiH Prosecutor's Office also charges Zaim Backović, Hamid Bahto, Hasan Efendić, Fikret Muslimović, Jusuf Pušina, Bakir Alispahić, Enes Bezdrob, Ismet Dahić, and Mahir Žiška.

The BiH Prosecutor's Office is proving in this procedure that Alija Izetbegović was not a prisoner, and that the column was not a legitimate military target, which is contrary to the Hague decision stating that the column was a legitimate military target.