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Jovo Rebrača about what had happened and Rebrača seemed upset. Čubrilo visited the witness on
two occasions while the latter lived in Montenegro – in 1997 and 2000 and told him to keep what
he had seen to himself, threatened him, asked him to testify that he had delivered the prisoners to
regular army troops. On 10 November 2007, the witness wrote a letter describing everything he
knew about the crime and addressed it to institutions in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro, in case
something should happen to him. With respect to the murder of war prisoner Đuro Kiš, of which
Božo Vidaković is accused, the witness said that on 7 July 1991, Đuro Kiš was confined in the
movie theater in Tenja. The witness went on to say that he had heard volleys of gunfire while
walking by the movie theater. When he asked a passer by what the noise had been, the latter
replied that Božo Vidaković had just killed Đuro Kiš.
Witness Savo Šarčević, a member of the Tenja TO at the time, stated that on 7 July 1991 he saw
Đuro Kiš being captured during the attack on Tenja. Later he heard that Đuro Kiš had been killed
by Vidaković and that Milan Macakanja had also killed some civilians. He claimed that he did
not know who had told him that.
In his testimony, witness Dragutin Makarić, who lived in Tenja at the time, refuted the claims by
Čubrilo’s defense that Čubrilo had left Tenja on 8 July 1991, saying that he met Čubrilo in Tenja
on 12 or 13 July 1991. Čubrilo on that occasion, was wearing a blue working overall and carried
a ‘Thompson’ rifle. Witness Miroslav Momčilović, a policeman in Tenja at the time, said that
Đuro Kiš had been taken prisoner on 7 July 1991 and confined in the movie theater. He had been
in a yard, some 10-15 meters from the theater, when a shot rang out. He saw Božo Vidaković
leave the movie theater in the company of Boško Surla, who said: “This idiot has killed the man”,
referring to Vidaković. He had never heard that anyone else had killed Đuro Kiš.
The other witnesses, mainly members of the TO and civilian defense force in Tenja said they had
no knowledge of the events in question.
Analysis of proceedings
The trial will continue with the examination of more witnesses. Unique to this case so far is the
fact that the Court returned the indictment to TRZ three times to correct errors and omissions,
before it eventually confirmed it.
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