A war video from Kotor Varos has been circulating on the Internet for a long time, showing the current President of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (NARS) Nenad Stevandic, but in a war uniform with a red beret and a rifle.
Although Stevandic neither confirmed nor denied that the young man in the video was him, now the man from the same video, Fikret Skopljak, has come forward, claiming that Stevandic and Nenad Kajkut beat him then.
Skopljak said two days ago that the footage was cut because the part when Stevandic is beating him is missing.
“Then they took me there to the garage because they suspected that I had a weapon in the car…,” says Skopljak about the part of the video in which Kajkut hits him and swears at him, and forces him to open the trunk with a crowbar because he didn’t have the key with him.
“They started hitting me. Not everything was shown, but Stevandic and Kajkut were there, the two of them were hitting me there. The part where Stevandic was hitting me was cut. Stevandic said ‘Don’t hit him, I will’ and then they kicked me while I was on the ground between the car and the wall”.
The video shows Stevandic and Kajkut telling a man they captured to put his hands on the wall but with three fingers (three-finger salute, originally expressed the Holy Trinity, used in oath-taking, and a symbol of Serbian Orthodoxy, that today simply is an expression, a gesture, for ethnic Serbs, and Serbia).
People’s deputy Nebojsa Vukanovic also called Stevandic names because of the war events in Kotor Varos: “You think that we are Bosniaks in Kotor Varos, so you’re going to break into our apartments and harass us? Why are you blushing?”.
Surviving victims of war crimes in Kotor Varos say that there is a complete recording that would help in the prosecution of all those responsible and that the role of Nenad Stevandic is mentioned in almost all judgments of the Hague Tribunal, which is why they expect the domestic judiciary to prosecute him, Klix.ba reports.
