Sreten Milosevic, who in 1995 was the assistant to the commander of the Zvornik brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska and is one of the seven people arrested in Zvornik on suspicion of having committed genocide, was ordered to serve one-month pre-trial detention, N1 found out.
Sreten Milosic was arrested due to his command responsibility, and the BiH Prosecutor's Office said that nothing could be done without him signing off on it. According to prosecutors and witness statements, he was there when trucks came to transport the prisoners and not even shovels could be brought to the scene without his permission. In the summer of 1995, Milosevic was the assistant commander of the Zvornik Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army for logistics.
He was also a witness for the defense of Drago Nikolić, the former chief of security of the Zvornik Brigade of the RS Army, at the trial in The Hague of the so-called “Srebrenica Seven”. Nikolic was tried for the shooting and killing of Muslims at the Orahovac location, after the fall of Srebrenica, for which the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina suspects Milosevic and six others who were arrested.
Drago Nikolic was then sentenced to 35 years in prison, which he received as a member of a group which organised the capture and murder of Bosniak boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995. He died in 2015 while on temporary release in Serbia.
As a defense witness, Milosevic then stated that he was “deceived” when he was ordered to go to Orahovac in order to participate in securing the prisoners. He saw how blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners were loaded into vehicles and driven towards the forest, and how those who tried to escape were killed on the spot.
Milosevic did not have an answer to the prosecutor's question about what he had done to help the captured Muslims whom he understood would be executed.
“I'm sorry that it happened, but I couldn't do anything about it,” he said at the time.
His lawyer said after his hearing of Friday: “He was stationed in the Zvornicka Brigade and they said he was rear guard. The position as such does not lead to the conclusion that we are dealing with a lot of decision-making power”.
On July 13, hundreds of men were brought by bus to the Grbavci school in the center of Orahovac. Members of the Zvornik Brigade held them captive in the gymnasium. Then on July 14, in groups, with their hands tied and blindfolded, after giving them only a glass of water each, they were loaded onto trucks and taken to a field near the school. A pit was dug for them even before they were shot. Few survived and later became protected witnesses in The Hague.
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