Trial postponed: Is Simović unprepared in the 'Jošanica case' due to too much work, or did he not receive clear instructions from the NSRS!?

Only those unfamiliar with the work of state prosecutor Vladimir Simović are surprised by the fact that today the trial was postponed to January 30 in the case known as 'Buljubašić and others'.

Namely, at the status conference held before the planned start of the trial, the Defenses stated that they had not received all the evidence along with the indictment, which proposed hearing 428 witnesses and 15 binders of material evidence.

This is not the first time that Simović has acted confused and 'haphazardly', because those following the 'Čemerno' case know all the richness of prosecutor Simović's ignorance. He is the author of that famous statement that he is filing an indictment by order of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska! He said that exactly in the Čemerno case, where defenders of Bosnia and Herzegovina are also being tried, just as in the 'Buljubašić and others' case. For such behavior and admission that he works on political orders, he has never answered.

Thus, today, the proposal of the Prosecutor's Office for hearing witnesses could not be discussed in more detail because prosecutor Vladimir Simović submitted the plan at the beginning of the hearing, even though the Panel ordered it on December 18.

Simović said that three prosecutors worked on the indictment and that due to being occupied with trials, they did not manage to submit the plan for presenting evidence earlier!

The presiding judge of the Panel, Jasmina Ćosić Dedović, gave the Prosecutor's Office a deadline to revise the list and supplement it with certain data, as well as specific circumstances under which witnesses will be called.

“We will certainly not allow 350 witnesses to testify on the same circumstances,” the judge emphasized.

The prosecutor said it is difficult to state other circumstances. The judge told him to specify them.

Defense attorney Jesenka Rešidović said they had not received 74 pieces of evidence, including 13 witness statements.

“This defense considers that this is an unreasonably large number of witnesses,” Rešidović said.

Defense attorney Nermin Mulalić said he had previously requested the exclusion of the Prosecutor's Office expert Martin Frančešević, and that the decision of the preliminary proceedings judge stated that he could address this request to the Panel.

“This should be resolved before the opening of the main trial,” Mulalić said.

Precisely because of the procedural reasons presented, the start of the trial will be postponed to January 30.

The court ordered the Prosecutor's Office and the Defenses to resolve the issue of evidence within ten days, and told the defense attorneys to contact the court if they fail to obtain all evidence.

In this case, the accused are Ferid Buljubašić, Ahmet Sejdić, Rašid Sobo, Ševko Glušac, Zakir Jamak, Bahrudin Muhić alias Bane, Adem Fehrić, Mustafa Poljo alias Musa, Enver Kustura alias Pena, Muhamed Liska, Sakib Čakar, Izet Sejdić and Munir Nalo. They are charged with war crimes against victims of Serbian ethnicity in Jošanica, where 56 civilians of Serbian ethnicity were killed, about ten people were wounded, and houses, property, agricultural and auxiliary buildings were burned and destroyed.

Buljubašić and Ahmet Sejdić are also charged with crimes in the area of Višegrad and Čajniče.

We remind you that in a very strange way, characteristic only of the Bosnian judiciary, the confirmation of this indictment occurred.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina first completely rejected the indictment of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Ferid Buljubašić, Ahmet Sejdić and others for a war crime that, according to the indictment, occurred in Jošanica near Foča in 1992, only to be later fully accepted by some miracle!

And, this indictment against 13 people, at a time when we are witnessing more than ever the denial of genocide and the violation of the sovereignty of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the celebration of unconstitutional holidays and the increasingly strong separatism of Milorad Dodik, is one in a series of attempts at revisionism.

I do not believe so much in the prosecutor's workload, as in the fact that due to the fabrication of indictments, mostly against members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prosecutors come to trials unprepared, therefore I believe that, as in the Čemerno case, Simović listened to the authorities from the RS, not legal acts and postulates.