DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Novi Varoš, section Okučani - Gradiška, 1 - 2 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The majority of Western Slavonian population was withdrawing from Okučani and heading toward Stara Gradiška and the Sava River planning to cross over the bridge near Gradiška into the territory of the Republic of Srpska and to reach Bosanska Gradiška.

The Croatian Army launched a strong attack near Nova Varoš in order to cut off this trunk road along which several thousand people were moving.

Witness 628/95-11 stated:

"... I took my tractor and trailer at Okučani, collected the most essential personal effects and together with my neighbour joined the refugee convoy which was moving from Okučani toward Bosanska Gradiška.

The convoy set out to break through at around 5.00 hrs in the morning.

The Croatian Army, deployed near Nova Varoš in the Prašak Forest, which is some 50 m away from the road, opened fire fiercely from small arms and heavy weapons at the civilian convoy. There were heavy civilian casualties. Vehicles went up in flames. The breakthrough lasted for a total of 8 hours along an around 4- meter-long stretch of road near the Strug canal.

The convoy often had to stop, and when the attackers were pushed back, it would resume its journey. I sighted a very large number of civilian corpses along the road; the vehicles which continued their breakthrough sometimes had to pass over them.

As a rough rule of thumb, we left behind between 400 and 450 dead civilians on that road.

I recognized among the dead only the following:

When we crossed the Strug canal en route to the Sava River, we repeatedly came under Croatian Army shelling ..."

Witness 628/95-1 stated the following:

".. When at around 20.00 hrs. on 1 May 1995 the Croatian Army cut off the road from Okučani to Nova Gradiška near Nova Varoš, the line used by Serb refugees who were coming from the direction of Okučani, I sighted at the place called Pustara a yellow Merzedes with Okučani number plates coming from the direction of Okučani and heading toward Nova Gradiška.There were 5 passengers in it.

I saw two Croatian soldiers intercept the car and order the driver to pull over. I clearly overheard them talk and one of them shouted: "Come here, you have five Serbs here, slaughter them'. He was probably calling one of his friends who were standing by the road. Soon after that five Croat soldiers rushed onto the road, stopped near the car and started shooting at the passengers with automatic rifles until they used up all of their ammunition.

Having killed all passengers in that car, they pushed the car off the road and into the canal on the right. The shot down passengers had remained in the car..."

Witness 654/95-5 stated:

"... The aggression by the Croatian armed forces on Western Slavonia was launched on 1 May 1995. On that day the evacuation of civilians from Okučani to Gradiška was organized. I was engaged in the discharge of this task as well. I transported women and children by my bus and completed four rounds on that day. Bus drivers L.N., R.M., and M.Č. were also engaged in the execution of this task.

I completed the last round at around 21.30 hrs.

Although the Okučani-Gradiška section was persistently being shelled and bombed by Croatian military aircraft during our previous rounds, we nevertheless managed to break through without apparent damage.

A column of motor-cars, tractors and trucks was also moving along this road from Okučani toward Gradiška.

At around 21.30 hrs I set out to Gradiška with a busload of women and children. My bus was followed by another one driven by M.Č. They shelled our buses on this occasion as well. For the first time on that day, however, my bus came under small arms fire opened by persons in houses and in yards along the road, as well as from the nearby Prašnik forest, when we reached the approximately 500 ms long section of the road stretching from the middle of the village Nova Varoš to the bridge over the Strug. In response to this, I speeded up and managed to reach the other side of the Strug canal without any damage.

Passing through the mentioned part of the village Novi Varoš, I saw them shoot at a "Zastava 101" which swerved to the right and crashed against a gate as well as a "Zastava 750" which was also shot at from small arms. It swerved to the right and crashed against a house by the road. I could not make out what was happening with the passengers in those two cars because it was dark and I dared not reduce speed. I saw in front of me a tractor with an old man at the wheel and pulling a trailer with several civilians on it. I saw them shoot the old man down with a rifle from a yard on the left-hand side of the road. When the old man fell to the right of the steering wheel, the tractor swerved to the right, hit against a pole and then turned over. As far as I could see, the civilians remained on the road but I did not see what happened to them after that..."

Witness 654/95-2 stated:

"... At around 5.15 hrs. in the morning on 2 May I left Okučani by truck for the Sava River. I went via the village Novi Varoš even though shooting could be heard coming from that direction overnight and in the morning. When I was about to enter the village Nova Varoš, I heard the distinctive sound of Singapore rifles from both sides of the road. I heard bullets whizzing above the truck. At the entrance to the village I saw a tractor with things scattered around (bedlinen, dishes and other) and a motionless man over the wheel. When I got into the village I saw a large number of tractors and passenger cars and dead bodies around them.

As those in the houses on the left side of the road in the direction of the Sava kept increasingly firing at my truck, I speeded up. To avoid having to drive over dead bodies, I had to leave the road and drive along the pavement and the foot path on the right instead. This is how I managed to pass through the village without stopping and how I got out of the village Novi Varoš without being hit.

In view of the situation that I was in, I could not give any estimate as to the number of Serbs killed along the road through Nova Varoš. I saw the following among the killed:

On my way from Okučani to Gradiška I passed by the UNPROFOR points at the place known as Pustara, near the exit from Nova Varoš, as well as by the point at the very exit from Nova Varoš in the direction of Gradiška. I did not see any Blue Helmets in those places. The points were completely vacated..."

Witness 654/95-4 who was in the vicinity of Benkovac on 1 May also stated the following:

"Around noon I sighted a plane, probably a "MiG". It was coming in from the south and heading toward Pakrac and when it was between Radjenovac and Bijela Stena, over a place known as Tromedja,I saw it drop bombs which exploded immediately and I heard a strong detonation. I later heard that at the place called Tromedja near Bijela Stena there were a convoy of 400 civilians who were bombed by that plane and that great many were killed as a result.

I set out from Okučani to the Sava River at around 21.00 hrs. I was riding a bicycle. Throughout my ride shells were falling in the immediate vicinity of the road along which the convoy was moving. Most of the vehicles were moving with their headlights on.

At the entrance to the village Novi Varoš I sighted a small tractor make "Fergusson" which had hit a pole by the road and the bodies of an elderly man and a woman nearby. Not very far from there I saw a tractor make "Ursuz" turned over in a ditch with the bodies of a man and a woman near it; a dark blue passenger car make "Jugo 45", with 3 dead bodies inside; a white "Merzedes 300" which had hit a pole by the road with two dead men inside. Not very far from there was a motor-car make "Regata" and I did not see anyone inside. These motorcars and bodies were scattered over a 50-meter-long stretch of road, and ahead of them, some 100 meters away, I found other means of transport which had stopped and been turned over on the road. There were a number of civilian bodies around as well. I had to pass round those bodies on my bicycle and sought to get away as quickly as possible.

As far as I remember, I saw at least 25 killed civilian bodies. I was able to sight all this, as I mentioned previously, because most of the vehicles were not moving.

When I reached Gradiška, I saw my own car make "Lada Caravan" in a street there; it was parked with its headlights on and with its doors open. This surprised me because I knew that I had left my car behind at Benkovac.I soon learnt that the car had been driven from Benkovac to Gradiška by two women R.M. and K.M. who had been wounded in Benkovac; the one that was less seriously wounded drove in it some wounded children to Gradiška.Upon their arrival in this town they went to hospital..."

Witness 654/95-6 stated:

"... In the morning of 2 May I saw that many Serbs had moved out of Okučani in a convoy heading for Gradiška-upon-Sava from which town we received news that Croats kept attacking convoys in the village Novi Varoš. I heard that there had been many casualties during the previous night's attack on the convoy.

At around 17.50 hrs on 2 May I set out for Gradiška.

At the entrance to the village Nova Varoš I saw a host of smashed- up passenger cars, tractors and trucks. A large number of killed civilians and our soldiers lay scattered on the road. At the same time, our column was being attacked by Croats who were on the left side of the road in the Prašnik forest in the direction of which we were heading. This is why we were making slow progress and quite often the column had to stop and fight in order to advance. Our progress through Nova Varoš lasted until the following day 3 May so that we only reached Gradiška-upon-Sava at around 19.00 hrs. Throughout that time we often had to stop over and at certain points we were held up for as long as several hours.

I would not be able to give a precise estimate now as to the number of killed civilians and soldiers at Nova Varoš, but I am sure that there were many more civilians than soldiers. Among the killed, I also saw several months old children lying dead near the bodies of their dead mothers. I counted three dead infants near their mothers and there were certainly many more, but I could not bear to look at that sight and sought to avoid paying more attention to them.

While I was thus unable to inspect the victims more closely, I nevertheless recognized among the dead the following persons from the village Rajić:

and from Bjelovar,

I learnt from N.S. that on 3 May he saw the Croats clearing up the road through Nova Varoš, removing damaged vehicles and burning down dead bodies, and then washing the road..."

Witness 628/95-2 stated:

"...At around 18.00 hrs on 1 May 1995 I decided to get on my tractor and force my way into Gradiška. At Okučani I collected my most essential belongings and gave a ride to my mother, uncle, aunt and my neighbour. When we reached the paytoll on the highway I sighted a shell-hit woman lying on the road. A tractor was parked near a pole on the Dubovac flyover and there were a dead man near it and a wounded woman. Near the UNPROFOR point, previously manned by the Nepalese battalion, I saw two smashed-up cars and two or three civilian bodies nearby.

I continued to force my way while the road and the nearby area were being showered with shells. Meanwhile, a column had been formed of tractors, trucks and other vehicles which were moving in the same direction as I was. I saw some of those vehicles being hit by shells and even some resulting casualties.

At the entrance to the village Novi Varoš the Croats intensified their shelling from the direction of the Prašnik Forest. On my way along that road I came across a large number of smashed-up cars and other vehicles as well as across dead bodies.

Near the cafe "Složna braća" I sighted several casualties, including Ignjatije Lukić. The same situation was in evidence all over the village Novi Varoš up to the exit, the demolished bridge over the Strug canal.

I was not in a situation to assess the number of victims I saw by the road. The following day, when we crossed over the Sava River, the Croats killed the following persons who were about to enter Nova Varoš:

who, having decided to return to Okučani, left Gradiška by car. On the same occasion they also wounded severely T.S...."

Witness 628/95-3 stated:

"... At around 4.00 hrs in the morning on 2 May we left for Gradiška taking the road via the village Nova Varoš. Civilians were moving on tractors, trucks, cars, military vehicles, and I and other defenders went on foot. When I arrived at Nova Varoš, I saw a number of dead civilians along the road, smashed-up tractors and cars, i.e. the result of the Croat attack on the civilian convoy which sought to break through on 1 and 2 May. While I was moving along this road in a column of civilians and soldiers, Croatian armed forces fired at us from small arms and artillery weapons from the nearby Prašnik forest as well as from some houses by the road.

I did not recognize anyone from among the killed ones, but did see in person five bodies whom I had not known before. As far as I could make out, the largest number of civilians had been killed at the place known as Pustara and near the bridge across the Strug..."

Witness 628/95-1 stated:

"... We managed to break through the village Novi Varoš, and were followed by a column of civilians. During our breakthrough of the village Nova Varoš, I saw a large number of killed civilians who had sought to break through afer 20.00 hrs on 1 May. There were some children among them as well.

A large number of trucks and tractors carrying a considerable number of killed civilians stood on the road. I saw an arm of a child hanging from one of the wheels of a burning truck.

After the breakthrough we reached the Strug canal; we were followed by a civilian column which had also come under the Croat attack. There were heavy casualties in this column as well..."

Witness 628/95-10 stated the following on his Nova Varoš breakthrough:

"... During our passage through Nova Varoš in the early morning hours of 2 May were came under most fierce fire from Croatian armed forces. I saw turned over cars, trucks and tractors. As far as I remember, at around 9.00 hrs I reached the last few houses in the village Novi Varoš en route to Gradiška-upon-Sava. Due to the the enemy's fire we were forced to stop and look for a safer shelter. I saw there several of our soldiers who had been shot dead, one of which was

whose name I do not know. Not far away from that spot I sighted Rade Petković who was running toward the Sava River. I have not seen him since and do not know whether he is alive. Then I was captured, and I had to go on foot in the direction of Okučani. I saw a large number of turned over vehicles along that road, I saw things covered in blood, women's hair fallout, etc. but did not see any corpses along that road. I only saw in a ditch the body of our soldier

whom I had known previously. I also met Croatian soldiers on the way..."

In his statement witness 618/95-4 said:

"... I set out on a tractor driven by my nephew together with my wife and my mother and his wife and two little children. At Nova Varoš the Croats, who had taken positions in a nearby forest, opened small arms cross-fire at us. This happened, if I remember correctly, after 17.00 hrs. I saw that many people who had been sitting on tractor trailers were shot and fell on the asphalt road, while the younger ones jumped out, took cover near the road and fled in the direction of the Sava River. In this total commotion I saw Jela Vuković from Gredjani, born in 1913, who had been wounded and fell from one of the tractors, as she was screaming for help: "Don't leave me here."

We passed fast through the village on our tractor and managed to get away unhurt. During our ride, I could only see a little in the total disarray and turmoil, but I did spot at least 15 dead civilians on the asphalt road and a considerable number of casualties staggering by the road and pleading for help..."

Witness 618/95-5 told the investigating judge:

"It was decided that my unit should move as the advance ahead of the civilian column after we had learnt that the night before an attack had been launched on a civilian column heading in the same direction as ours, i.e. toward the village Novi Varoš. I was on one of the two tanks which were at the head of the column. The tanks were followed by a group of our infantrymen with civilians bringing up the rear.

As soon as we entered the village Novi Varoš, I saw a large number of civilians killed the night before when they attempted to force their way in the direction of Bosanska Gradiška. The corpses were lying on and by the asphalt road all along its section through the village Novi Varoš up to the Strug canal. According to my estimate, there could have been over 100 corpses along that section of women, old men and even of children, I think. While we were moving along this section on tanks, these tanks were sporadically shelled by the Croats. When our infantry unit and the civilian column came close enough, Croats opened most fierce fire from their small arms and other weapons from the abandoned village houses and the forest nearby. I was not in a situation to see what was happening behind me in the civilian column, and I later heard that many people had been shot down there. These two tanks that were forcing their way toward the Sava River were shelled by Croatian planes. I also saw them shell civilian targets in Stara Gradiška.

I found out later on that they shot down in the civilian column

and that B.R. and M.Lj. were wounded. I do not know how many civilians from the column behind the tanks were killed..."

EVIDENCE: The records of the Committee 654/95, 628/95 and 618/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Žirovac, on the road between Glina and Dvor na Uni, 8 August 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When the attack commenced on the territory of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, the woman witness who had been living at Slunj, joined on 4 August 1995, together with her child, the refugee column heading toward Vojnić.

When this column reached the Glina area in the night of 6/7 August, it was shelled by the Croatian Army.

While on 7 August they were approaching Dvor na Uni, the column was shelled at around 14.00 hrs from the direction of Dvor na Uni and broke up as a result. The shelling lasted until 8 August when at around 14.00 hrs the witness sighted, in front of her vehicle, three Muslim soldiers in camouflage fatigues and with green head- bands hitting an elderly man and a youngster with their riflebutts. She then saw the elderly man, who was covered in blood, fall to the ground and die.

She started running and soldiers fired at her as well as at other Serbs from the column. She heard moaning and screams coming from all sides. She managed to hide behind a nearby bush and later noticed the bodies of 4 or 5 dead civilians from the column there.

She set out on foot toward Dvor na Uni and sighted a large number of dead bodies and many heavily damaged vehicles from that column. She was moving in a group of 11 persons. Meanwhile, she had lost her child.

She came across a man with a two-month-old baby from whom she learnt that his wife had just been killed.

The part of the column which the witness was in was 3 kilometers apart from the rest and, according to the witness's estimate, only these 11 people and the man with the baby have survived.

They reached Dvor na Uni on foot and were bombed there by Croatian Army airplanes so that they had to look for shelters by the road.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

TIME AND PLACE: Village Medari near Okučani, from 1 - 2 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At 5.00 hrs. on 1 May 1995 Croatian armed forces launched an attack on Western Slavonia.

On 1 May Croatian forces stormed the village Medare which is situated at the very border between the Serb territory and the Republic of Croatia and killed all the civilians who had not managed to flee the village. According to the witness, the following lost their lives there:

The witnesses know for sure that most of the above mentioned persons have been killed, whereas the others are nowhere to be found and it is assumed that they have met with the same fate.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Okučani, 1 - 2 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When around midnight on 1/2 May 1995 the witness arrived at the local first-aid station at Okučani, he saw there around 15 corpses of dead civilians and soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Srpska Krajina.

The witness recognized the following among them:

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Lipovac near Brčko, May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At this village Croats were in the majority and one third of villagers were Serbs.

All Serbs in the Lipovac area were expelled and four of them were killed, namely:

All Serb property was looted by Croats and by Muslims and Serb homes were set on fire thereafter.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Bukovčani near Pakrac, 2 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Passing through this village, the witness sighted in a house yard two corpses of a man and a woman age around 60 years, probably husband and wife, and does not know their names.

They had, clearly, been hit by a bullet in the forehead, probably fired at close range.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Vrbovljani near Okučani, in early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 11 May 1995 the woman witness sighted certain workers whom she suspects were Croats from Nova Gradiška and who were filling in graves at the local cemetery near Okučani.

She asked them whether they were interring innocent people and one of them replied that they were not innocent people but Chetnik animals.

The witness managed to count 39 individual graves, and she also saw that they had dug up a larger grave and interred a considerable number of civilians in it.

As far as she could make out, the graves were dug up and filled in by dredgers, and the mentioned workers determined where individual graves would be.

The witness suspects that they buried there the civilians who were killed on 1 and 2 May 1995 during an attempted escape across the Sava River.

The witness learnt that the Croats had also transported some corpses of the killed Serbs to Okučani and buried them at the town cemetery.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Vrbovljani near Okučani on 1 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During the entry of Croatian armed forces into the village Vrbovljani on 1 May 1995, the following was killed:

His body was seen in a ditch near Mirka Dragićević's house.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: The village Benkovac near Okučani, 1 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A group of Serb civilians from the village Skenderovac sought to reach Gradiška via Okučani by their truck make "Zastava" with Rade Cvijanović at the wheel. There were around 10 civilians on that truck including children age from 8 to 10 years.

Members of the Croatian Army opened cross-fire from their small arms on this truck when it reached Benkovac.

Miroslava Radjenović, which was sitting on the hood, and her daughter Ljubica were wounded. After they had been extended first aid, they managed to cross over the Sava River and reached Bosanska Gradiška.

However, the following were reported missing:

Despite the fact that their relatives made enquiries through the Red Cross, they could not learn anything about their fate.

Meanwhile, the car make "Golf" driven by Nada Komnenić came under fire at Benkovac. There were also three children ages 8 months to 10 years in that car. In the course of this incident Nada Komnenić and one of her three children received injuries.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Benkovac near Okučani, 2 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Near the entrance to the village Benkovac from the north and on a meadow around 200 ms away from the first houses in that village

while she was guarding sheep in that meadow. Her throat was slit by some members of a Croatian Army patrol who had come out of the forest, according to eye-witness 618/95-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Pakrac, 1 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The attack on Pakrac which began at around 6.00 hrs on 1 May 1995 with the shelling of Pakrac and its broader area lasted until around 15.00 hrs.

The civilian population took shelter in cellars and elsewhere. When the shelling ended, a certain number of civilians from Pakrac, Gavrinci and other places formed a convoy and set out toward the villages Šeovica and Kraguj.

Members of the Croatian army shelled this convoy and as a result two little girls were killed, namely:

At the same time two more women were killed:

Some 10 civilians received injuries.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Šeovica near Pakrac, 3 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 3 May some 2,000 persons - civilians and members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska Krajina gathered at Šeovica. The negotiations between the representatives of the Serb military and civilian authorities and the Croat representatives were conducted in the afternoon of 3 May and in the morning on 4 May and also attended by UNPROFOR which was represented by an Argentinian general. Yasushi Akashi was due to sign that agreement on behalf of UNPROFOR, and the handing over of the agreement was due to take place at 14.00 hrs on 4 May 1995 in the presence of UNPROFOR.

However, the UNPROFOR representatives did not arrive at the appointed time and the Croatian Army staged a Serb attack on Pakrac; the alleged firing of two shells was taken as a pretext under which those members of the Croatian Army proceeded to strongly shell Šeovica where a large number of civilians and soldiers were staying.

During the above shelling two young girls were killed one of which was a daughter of Milošević from Šeovica.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village Kosovac, south of Okučani, in early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness stated that he had seen 4 or 5 bodies in passing through the village Kosovac to the south of Okučani.

One of those bodies wore a uniform and the rest were civilians.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Cerik, the municipality of Brčko, June and August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Soldiers of Muslim-Croat formations of 108th Brčko brigade of HVO (Croatian Defense Council) of Bosanska Posavina ordered the Crisis Center in Bijela to attack the village of Cerik. The attack took place on June 17 and August 28, 1992. During the attack, the Serb civilian population took to flight in the surrounding Serb villages, and the following sixteen civilians who did not manage to escape because they were too old or ill were killed:

During the attacks, the following persons were captured, taken hostages and then killed:

The remains of the captured and killed civilians were delivered on June 26 1994 in Gradačac, and were identified in the morgue in Brčko.

In addition to the murders, during the attacks, the Ortodox church and the mill owned by Ljubo Zarić were burnt down, as well as 105 houses with auxiliary buildings. All valuable movable property had been previously looted.

EVIDENCE: The Committee Documents under Nos. 144/95-3, 636/95-5 and 636/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Gradice, on the Brčko-Bjeljina road, August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Soldiers of Croat armed formations, who were on the left bank of the Sava river in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, opened fire from anti-aircraft machine gun at the truck driven by Ljuboje Zarić, who was on his way from Brčko to Bijeljina along the right river bank, and killed the civilians in the truck:

whereas Djukić Petar, f. Jovo, born in 1942 in Cerik, sustained serious bodily injuries.

EVIDENCE: Evidence in the documents 144/95-7.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Bukvik Gornji, the municipality of Brčko, September 14, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Soldiers of Muslim-Croat armed formations of 108th Brčko brigade of HVO (Croatian Defense Council) of Bosanska Posavina ordered the Crisis Center in Bijela to attack the village of Bukvik Gornji. The attack took place on September 14, about 14.00 hrs., from the villages of Gornje Skakave, Seonjak and Prijedor.

During the attack, the Serb civilian population took to flight towards the surrounding forests, streams and fields, and twelve civilians, mostly elderly, ill and immobile, did not manage to escape.

The persons killed were:

After the murders, the Muslim-Croat troops demilished the primary school and the Cooperative House in Gornji Bukvik and looted and burnt down some 130 houses together with the same number of auxiliary buildings.

EVIDENCE: Testimonies by 11 witnesses in documents 144/95-8, 617/95-2, 617/95-3, 617/95-6 and 617/95-31.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The villages of Vitanović, Bukvik Donji and Bukvik Gornji, the municipality of Brčko, September, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Soldiers of Muslim-Croat armed formations of 108th Brčko brigade of HVO (Croatian Defense Council) of Bosanska Posavina ordered the Crisis Center in Bijela to attack the unprotected Serb villages of Vitanović, Bukvik Donji and Bukvik Gornji. The attacks took place on September 14, about 14.00 hrs., for which reason the Serb population took to flight towards the forests, streams and fields. Twelve civilians, mostly elderly, ill and immobile, who did not manage to escape, were killed:

In addition to the killings, Muslim-Croat troops tore down the church in Donji Bukvik and plundered and burnt down some 190 houses together with the same number of auxiliary buildings in the village.

EVIDENCE: Testimonies in documents 144/95-6 and 617/95-39.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The villages of Vujičići, Gajevo and Lukavac, the municipality of Brčko, September, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Soldiers of Muslim-Croat armed formations of 108th Brčko brigade of HVO (Croatian Defense Council) of Bosanska Posavina ordered the Crisis Center in Gornji Rahić to attack the villages of Vujičići, Gajevo and Lukavaca. The attack took place on September 14, 1992, about 14.00 hrs., from the directions of Brka, Ćoset and Rašljana.

During the attack, the Serb civilian population took to flight towards the village of Bukvik, but the following eleven civilians, mostly elderly and ill did not manage to escape and were killed:

In addition to the killings, about 330 houses and the auxiliary buildings were looted and then burnt down.

EVIDENCE: Documents 144/95-10, 617/95-14 and 617/95-20.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Brčko and a part of the Brčko-Obudovac corridor, from July to September 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Ramiz Pljakić, commander of 108th motorized brigade and Matuzović, commander of the 4th operational area of Bosanska Posavina, issued an order to Muslim-Croat armed formations in the regions of Boderište, Brka, Ulovići and Vučilovac, the municipality of Brčko, and Vidovic and Matić, the municipality of Orašje, to open artillery fire and shell Brčko and part of the cooridor in the Brčko-Obukovac direction, outside the war operations zone, which they did on several occasions, with a large number of shells.

I. In the night between July 25 and 26, 1944, the total of 98 shell were fired, inflicting injuries on civilians. The following persons sustained serious bodily injuries:

1. Bosa Pejić, born on June 5, 1913, who died on the way to the hospital.

2. Mitar Ostojić, born in 1948,

3. Nedeljka Kovandjić, born in 1962,

4. Ranko Nešić, born in 1964,

and the following persoins sustained light bodily injuries:

The material damage on civilian and economic facilities has been estimated to Dinars 11,000.000,00.

II. On August 4, 1994, around 5.30 hrs., a mortar shell caused material damage on the house of Božo Dobrovin in Brčko, 28 Zmaj Jovina Street, amounting to Dinars 10,000.00.

III. On August 6, 1994, at 10.10 hrs., 6 shells were fired, and at around 16.00 hrs. another three shell were fired against the town, wounding the civilians.

Serious bodily injuries were inflicted on:

Light bodily injuries were inflicted on:

The material damage has been estimated at Dinars 34,000,00.

IV. On September 13, 1994, on three occasions, at around 10.25 hrs., 21.10 hrs. and 21.40 hrs., the total of 46 shells were fired, inflicting serious bodily injuries on the following civilians:

while the following persons sustained light bodily injuries:

The material damage has been estimated at Dinars 6,000,000,00.

EVIDENCE: In the Committee document No. 144/95-11.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Brčko, May 1944.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Ramiz Pljakić, commander of 108th motorized brigade, issued an order to Muslim-Croat armed formations in the regions of Brka and on the Vranovača hill to open artillery fire, outside the war operations area, and shell Brčko, which was done with a number of shells on May 10, 1944, from 19.35 hrs. to 19.45 hrs. The shells killed the following civilians:

Serious bodily injuries were inflicted on the following civilians:

Light bodily injuries were inflicted on:

The material damage caused in the town has been estimated at Dinars 1,000,000,00.

The following day, May 11 1944, about 19.30 hrs. the units on the Vranovača hill, shelled the "Brčkok 2-dizdaruša" transformer station with five tank granades, causing material damage amounting to Dinars 2,618,000,00.

EVIDENCE: Reports on artillery shelling, report on persons killed and wounded, report on the damage of the transformer station and testimony by the witness in documents 144/95-14.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Brčko, May and June, 1944.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Matuzović, commander of 4th operational area of Posavina in Orašje, issued an order to Muslim-Croat armed formations in the occupied Serb village of Vučilovac to open artillery fire and shell the corridor and the town of Brčko, which they did on two occasions, on May 28, 1944, around 11.00 hrs., and on June 12, 1944, around 12.00 hrs.

The following civilians were killed:

Serious bodily injuries were inflicted on:

Light bodily injuries were inflicted on:

In addition, the material damage in the town itself, on buildings, passenger and freight vehicles and an ambulance car, has been estimated at the total of Dinars 800,000,00.

EVIDENCE: Documents 144/95-16.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Brčko, July 1944.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Pljakić, commander of 108th motorized brigade, issued an order to Muslim-Croat armed formations in the regions of the village of Brka and on the Vrakovača hill to open artillery fire against Brčko, outside the war operations area, which they did during the night on July 6-7, 1994, from 19.30 hrs. to 0.30 hrs.

The following civilians sustained bodily injuries:

The material damage on civilian and economic buildings has been estimated at Dinars 1,000,000,00.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Committee document No. 144/95-18.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Bijela, the municipality of Brčko, April, 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On April 10, 1993, in the house of Momir Lukić in Bijela, soldier of Muslim-Croat armed formations Marjan Mijatović shot dead

EVIDENCE: Testimonies in documents 144/95-15.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Travnik, May-September, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When the JNA withdrew from Travnik on May 19, 1992, the witness and three other Serbs were closed in the laundry room of a building at No. 14 Slavka Rodića St. in Travnik. He was kept there for 11 days, subjected to hunger and thirst. The four of them were given a half of a quarter of a kilo of bread, which was thrown to them through the window. They collected water in a plastic cup placed under a pipe where a few drops fell now and then.

They were beaten every day, most frequently with baseball clubs.

Eleven days later, they were transfered to the "Bratstvo" factory in Travnik, where they were kept in a annealing furnace area bordered with a wire fence. 17 Serbs were kept there.

They were beaten every day. When Siniša Pavić from Visoko, aged 23, returned a blow one day to a guard called "Hase", the guard threw him on the floor with a rifle butt, tore through his thorax with the second rifle butt hit, after which Pavić died.

A Serb whose second name was Tegetlija was also killed. He had been captured near Jajce.

EVIDENCE: Records on witness hearing filed with the Committee under No. 155/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Potkozlovača, the municipality of Han Pijesak, December 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On December 11, Muslim armed formations from Kladanj attacked the Serb village of Potkozlovača. When they occupied the village, they started killing civilians.

The following persons were killed:

In addition, the Muslim soldiers plundered all houses in Potkozlovača and took some 100 heads of livestock.

After that, they burnt 21 houses with auxiliary buildings. The houses of owned by the following persons were burnt: Gojko Trifunović, Dragutin Gvozdenović, Momir Dupljanin, Draga Sokanović, Marko Bastah, Vojislav Šokanović, Radovan Bastah, Nenad Bastah, Nedja Golijan, Radomir Paunić, Rada Samardjić and Marko and Mladjen Samardjić.

EVIDENCE: The medical findings and investigaiton on the spot with the photo-documentation, list of soldiers of Muslim armed formations with names of soldiers charged with automatic weapons found in situ, official report with testimonies by the witnesses filed with the Committee under No. 136/95-1.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Žeravice and the village of Rečice, the municipality of Han Pijesak, August 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On August 2, 1993, soldiers of Muslim armed formations attacked the Serb villages of Rečice and Žeravice.

In Rečice, there were no victims in the civilian population because the villagers had fled before the soldiers. The soldiers looted and then burnt seven houses with auxiliary buildings. The burnt houses were owned by Dušan and Milovan Golijan, Tomo and Vasa Golijan, Stevan Golijan and his brothers, Rajko Vasković, Svetozar Golijan and Milorad Golijan.

Muslim soldiers attacked Žeravice the same day and killed:

During the attack, Dana Sokanović, a primary school pupil, sustained a wound in the arm, after which she was captured and taken by Muslim soldiers to Kladanj, together with Golijan Velimir, born in 1946 and Milojka Mirović, born in 1926.

When they occupied the village, the Muslim soldiers plundered and burnt down more than 70 Serb-owned houses and their auxiliary buildings and took away some 200 heads of cattle.

EVIDENCE: Records on investigation on the spot, with photo- documentation, medical findings, testimonies by witnesses filed with the Committee under No. 136/95-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Vratilo, on the Kalinovik-Miljevina road, the municipality of Foča, Spetember 20, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On September 20, a freight vehicle with 39 civilians of Serb nationality was moving on the Kalinovik-Miljevina road.

The Muslim armed unit led by Sead Prazina ambushed the freight vehicle in Vratilo, the municipality of Foča, opened fire from infantry weapons at the civilians in the vehicle and killed them all. The following persons, all of Serbian nationality, which the attackers knew, were identified among the killed:

The investigating Commission was not able to identify six other civilians - three men and three women.

EVIDENCE: Records on the investigation and identification of the persons killed dated September 21, 1992, photo-documentation and testimonies by the captured Muslim soldier and documentation under No. 128/95, and document of the District Court in Foča Kri- 78/92.

NOTE: Addition to application I-131.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Bugojno, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: About 9,000 Serbs lived in the territory of the municipality of Bugojno. Croats and Muslims, in coalition, pressurized Serbs, threatened them, cursed their Serb mother and called them snipers and chetniks. Serbs were suspended from senior posts in the municipality. The director and the witness heard was replaced and given secondary assignments. Arrests of prominent Serbs started.

The following persons were killed in this period:

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness 234/95-19.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Potočani, end of May and beginning of June, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At the end of May, 1992, most probably on 25 or 26 May, in the village of Potočani, Muslim soldiers in "Green Beret" uniforms, under command of Semin Rustanpašić, killed the following Serbs:

At the beginning of June, the following persons were also killed in this village:

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness 234/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Hlapčevići near Visoko, June 20, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In this village, populated by the Muslims, there were only three Serb houses. At 6.00 hrs., on June 20, in addition to the witness, Muslim soldiers arrested five other Serbs from this village, whom they shot later:

The arrested were immediately tied with a rope, with their arms on the back. They were told that they were all going to be shot dead, their "Serbian and chetnik mother" was cursed. They were ordered to move in the direction of the village center, and on the way, the soldiers hit them with fists, boots and rifle butts. All soldiers wore "Green Beret" uniforms.

When they reached the village center, Nusret Ramić ordered them to stand in front of the wall of Suad Kapa's house. He then called Željko Ristić to step out of the group and asked him where the mine fields were. Before Željko could answer at all, Ramić fired a burst into his chest. Immediately after that, he turned the automatic rifle barrel towards the others and shot at them from the distance of 3-4 meters. They all fell down, including the witness. As they were lying on the ground, he fired another burst at them.

Then the soldiers moved away.

The witness was hit with four bullets.

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness 234/95-8 and 292/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Perin Han near Zenica, October 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When Muslim troops entered Perin Han, they killed two brothers:

They were killed in their house with blows with solid objects on their heads and buried in a collective grave in the village of Mutnica.

EVIDENCE: Testomony by the witness 234/95-23.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Ljubuški, detention camp in the former prison building, night June 10-11, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: 64 Serbs from Kupres were kept in this prison, including:

Croat soldiers demanded from these two persons to admit that they had slaughtered Croat children, promising to release them after they have confessed to that effect.

When they admitted, under duress, the Croat soldiers started beating them brutally. When Djordje Vuković died of wounds, prisoners R.K. and M.K. were ordered to take his body out. Then he was, before the eyes of other prisoners in the yards, spilled over with petrol and burnt.

Andjelko Šerbez died 15 minutes later. His corpse was also taken out, spilled over with petrol and burnt.

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness 234/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Homolje near Konjic, April 20, 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On the second day of the Serbian Easter holidays, April 20, 1993, Muslims, with Mujaheddins among them, entered the village of Donje Selo, near Konjic, where the witness lived. They took both Serbs and Croats out of their houses, since Muslims and Croats were in conflict at the time. They did not take women and children. They took 15 Serbs and about 85 Croats to a field near the village of Homolje, about one and half kilometers away from Donje Selo. There, they separated Croats and Serbs to two different sides.

This was done by "Juka's" troops, which included Mujaheddins, mostly Turks. There was also a Somalian among them, who spoke some Serbian.

When they separated the men in two groups, they ordered them to lie down, face turned to the ground, and started to beat them.

From the Serb group, they chose:

and executed them by a firing squad.

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness No. 243/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, Rave Jankovića Str., March 11, 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: From the Pere Kosorića square, the "Loris" buildings in the part of Sarajevo held by Muslim armed formations, a sniper shot at the girls who were playing "jump the elastic band", in front of the building No. 59:

EVIDENCE: 410/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Serdari, the municipality of Kotor Varoš, September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In the village of Serdari, there were only 10 Serb families, who were prevented by Muslims and Croats from Serdari and the neighboring villages from leaving the village in the middle of 1992. When they tried to leave on September 5, 1992, Muslim "Green beret" soldiers killed:

On September 17, 1992, at about 06.30 hrs., Muslim "Green beret" soldiers, led by Besim Čehić, invaded the village, burnt the houses and killed its unarmed civilian population who did not manage to take to flight.

Before entering R.'s house, they threw a bomb. Breaking through the front door, they rushed inside and found R. who had been in the fifth month of pregnancy, and shot her in the breast. She barely survived, with serious consequences.

On that occasion, they killed:

After the killings, they burnt Serb-owned houses in the village of Serdar.

EVIDENCE: 234/95-14, 234/95-16, 234/95-17 and 234/95-18.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Vrana, the municipality of Biograd na moru, September-October 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On September 30, 1991, in the afternoon, four Croat soldiers searched Serb houses in the village of Vrana. They took three Serbs:

to their Crisis Center in the village and then on the Vransko lake, where they were kept in a fishermen's house.

Since that time, there is no more trace of Nenad Bogunović. According to what the Croat soldiers said, he was soaked with petrol and burnt.

The witness requested information about his disapperance from UNPROFOR, but was not given any.

Other Serbs were held in isolation and not allowed to move.

EVIDENCE: Wintess No. 236/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Zadar, in the middle of April, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Vaso Ležaja, born in Karin, had lived in his house in Zadar since 1968 and was employed at the City Transport enterprise. On April 17, 1992, he was taken away from his house. His corpse, with the head cut off, was found three days later. The witness found out that on April 17, 1992, at about 02.00 hrs., four uniformed Croats came to Vaso Ležaj's house, forced him to get out of bed and took him to the place called Bokanjac in Zadar, shot him from a submachine gun and then cut off his head.

His body, with the head cut off was seen by a Croat who knew the Ležaj family and informed his father about it.

A Croat, policeman, moved into the late Ležaj's house in Zadar.

EVIDENCE: Testimony by the witness No. 236/95-14.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The surroundings of Islam Grčki near Benkovac, September 13, 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Branko Stegnjajić and his wife Anka, who lived in their family house in Islam Grčki and worked in the "Nacionalni list" ("National Paper") in Zadar, were on their way back from work on September 13, 1991, by the Zadar-Posedarje bus, as usual. That day, the bus did not stop at the bus-stop where they used to get out, but two kilometers before, near the "Nova Bistrica" agricultural estate. They got out and started for their home, three kilometers away, in Islam Grčki, accross the field. In that field, they were killed, some 500 meters from the highway. Their remains were found on November 10, 1991.

According to the records made by the investigating team, Branko Stagnjajić was killed by decapitation with a knife or other blade (the head was not found), and his wife by lethal blows with a blunt object. Their belongings were found on the spot.

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 236/95-8.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Polje near Derventa, May 9, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When Croat-Muslim armed formations invaded the village of Polje, they found only the elderly, ill and wounded inhabitants. They immeditely killed them all:

After the killings, the corpses were buried in Polje. The exhumation was carried out at the order of the Investigating Judge of the Regional Court in Derventa. Impressed skull fractures, which caused brain destruction and death, were established with eight persons.

EVIDENCE: Committee document No. 249/95 with findings and the opinion of forensic experts prof. Dunjić and doc. Aleksandrić, and testimony by the witness.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Mostar, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: 1. Milan Jovanović, f. Trifko, born in 1925, retired economist, lived with his wife in a socially-owned apartment in Mostar when the war broke out and when the search of Serb apartments started on a massive scale, when Serbs were being taken to prisoner camps. The movement of the Serbs was restricted at the time.

After May 15, 1991, when his apartment was first searched "for propaganda materials and weapons", it was searched seven more times by uniformed Muslims (Territorial Defense soldiers) and Croats (Croatian Defense Council (HVO) and Croatian Defence Forces (HOS) soldiers).

During the searches, nothing was found that could have possibly discredited him or his family.

On May 30, 1992, a "Zolja" ("Wasp") rocket was launched at the witness's apartment, causing considerable damage. This rocket, as well as other rockets that hit the apartments of other Serbs, were launched deliberately and from a close distance.

During the search on July 8, 1992, uniformed Muslim soldiers forced Milan's wife to make bows like Muslims do when they pray and beat her on the head and she did it.

HVO soldiers arrested Milan Jovanović twice and, in the course of July 1992, took him to the West camp for the "informative interview".

On August 2, 1992, at 23.45 hrs., knocking was heard at the Jovanović's door. When Milan Jovanović opened, an unknown uniformed soldier asked him if he was Milan Jovanović and when he answered "yes", the soldier fired two machine-gun bursts at him. When Milan fell down, the soldier fired another burst in his head.

The wife found out later that the soldiers were from Jusuf Prazina's sabotage group that stayed in Mostar at the time, in former judge Slavko Šantić's apartment, while the other group stayed in "Pile's" apartment in Avenija Str.

After that, Jovanović's wife was issued a receipt by HVO agent for Bijeli Brijeg local community in Mostar, stating that her husband "had been a civilian victim of war", even though she requested that the truth be stated - that he had been killed.

At the same time in Mostar, the following persons were killed in a similar way:

The municipal HVO leader took from Milan Jovanović the "Jugo" car - "until there is a need for the said vehicle", as the receipt said, which was never returned to Milan's wife. At the end of 1993, the witness managed to be exchanged through the Red Cross and is now living as a refugee.

EVIDENCE: Committee documents 507/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Varaždin, in early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The captured soldier of the Army of the Republic of Srpska Krajina

who had been subjected to vicious torture in the Varaždin prison died en route from Varaždin to Bjelovar as a result of the wounds he had received.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), town stadium, October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Confined in the camp at the stadium was:

Desanka Blagojević, a nurse from Tešanj, presumably born in 1946.

She was the victim of rape and on one occasion, after she had come back from interrogation, she was burned by being forced to sit on a red-hot plate. The hot-plate was also pressed against other parts of her body - wrists, knees, elbows and buttocks.

The hot-plate was brought to the room where other women were and pressed it against Desanka because a few pieces of paper with telephone numbers had been found sawn in inside her lapel. She was also tortured by being pulled by the hair.

During the trip from Bosanski Brod to Slavonski Brod, Desanka Blagojević was hardly able to walk on account of being battered and injured from the burns so that the interrogated witness had to help her.

At one moment, Mlivić shot at Desanka and killed her.

This took place during the liberation of Brod, en route between Bosanski Brod and Slavonski Brod.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under Nos. 584/94-14 and 584/94-32.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Nova Gradiška, camp in army barracks, October 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Among the Serbs detained in the barracks was:

Jovo Radić, aged 67, from the village of Požeški Čečevac near Nova Gradiška. He died as the result of beating and his body was taken away only after four days.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 423/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Škipov Gaj, the Commune of Trnovo, July - November 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On July 30, 1992 the Moslem-Croatian armed forces attacked the Serb defense positions in Škipov Gaj, about 3 kilometres from Trnovo. Members of the Moslem-Croatian forces first captured and then killed the following members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska:

After the capture, these soldiers were first tortured and then killed. The investigation on the spot revealed the following: the remains of the above mentioned soldiers were found unburied on the ground. The skull of Darko Parežanin was severed from the rest of his skeleton. The front teeth in both upper and lower jaws were knocked out by force and on the left side of the vertex, along the joint between the vertex and occiput bones, there was a bullet wound 2.5 x 1.5 cm in size. This indicates that the victim was shot at while lying or sitting. The skull of Spasoje Popović was not found. The remains of Radovan Trgovčević were discovered in a ditch about 60 cm deep. His skeleton was in a slanting position, head buried into the ground and legs upwards.

EVIDENCE: Statement of the witness No. 32, investigation reports Nos. 2632-4 and 2632-42, photographic documents A-31, 32 and 33 and Kz. No. 29, filed with the Committee under No. 228/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: The camp at Godinjske bare, between Trnovo and Goražde, June - August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On June 10, 1992 the Public Security Department of Godinjske bare, headed by Ethem Godinjak and Medaris Šarić, established a camp for Serbs.

The camp was situated in a private shed of solid build, 2.5 m x 3.5 m, with concrete floor and one small riveted window. The prison was guarded by the following members of the former Trnovo Security Department: Ramiz Ramić, Enes Karačić, Fahro Dedović, Emir Nišić, Samir Bibović, Muzafer Kećo and others.

On that day, the following Serbs were brought to the camp: Mladjen Ivanović, Nenad Klepić, Radenko Vlaški, Jovo Elez, Savka Elez and Nedjo Popović, a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Other Serbs were brought during the ensuing days so that more than 16 persons were put into the above mentioned small room of about 8.5 sq. metres.

The room had no other opening except for a small hole in the wall, about 12 cm in diameter, which served as a vent so that the prisoners took turns in breathing through the hole. For their needs, they used a privy in the corner of the room. People often fainted because of discomfort and stuffiness.

The guards used to beat the prisoners every day with various wooden objects, butts, hands and feet.

The prisoners were forced to burn the Serbian flag and sing Moslem songs "We love you Alija" and "Don't give up Bosnia" which was recorded with video-cameras. Dino Savčič, Nijaz Torlak, Edin Hamzić, Safet Šamić and Izet Cibra were particularly zealous in the beating.

The following persons died as the result of beatings:

EVIDENCE: Statements of the witnesses and investigation reports No. 2632-8 filed with the Committee under No. 228/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Camp in the village of Dejčići near Trnovo, housed in the Elementary School building, June - August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Over 150 Serbs were detained in the camp, mostly women, children and elderly people. Men were locked in one room, whereas women and children were kept separately in other rooms. The residents of neighbouring villages were guarding the prison, i.e. the members of Dedić, Durmo, Oručević and Mulaosmanović families. Safet Durmo was the camp commander.

With the permission of guards, extremists came to the camp every day. Amongst them the following were recognized by the witnesses: Ismeta Kolar, Suno Dedić, Dino Sačić, Izet Čibra, Samir Drnjaković, Avdo Ćosić, Zejnil Lehić, Aziz Dedić, Avdija Dedić, Suljo Dedić, Muhamed Zoltan and Hamid Oručević.

Every day they would take pleasure in torturing the helpless Serbs by beating them with metal bars, rubber truncheons, hands and other objects. The beating made the prisoners bleed all over and faint.

The following persons died as the result of beatings:

EVIDENCE: Statements of the witnesses, investigation report No. 29 and photographic documents No. 128, filed with the Committee under No. 228-94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Jablanica Region, the Commune of Lopare, January 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On January 23, 1994, members of the Moslem-Croatian armed forces attacked the defense positions of the Republic of Srpska in Jablanica Region. They captured and then tortured and killed the following 6 combatants:

EVIDENCE: Evidence contained in the documents under No. 171/95-1.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Teočak, the Commune of Ugljevik, September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On September 10, 1992 the Moslem-Croatian armed forces from Teočak attacked the village of Priboj, the Commune of Lopare, which caused the Serb civilian population to flee.

During the flight, a civilian was captured in the hamlet of Djokići:

Mićo Gajić, father's name Živan, born on November 10, 1921 in Priboj. He was taken to the prison in Teočak where he was being beaten and maltreated for days and eventually died there.

After the exchange performed on September 23, 1992, several serious injuries were discovered on his body, namely on the head, the sexual organs (removed testicles) and other parts.

EVIDENCE: Statements of the witnesses and photographic evidence contained in the documents No. 171/95-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Hadžići, end of May 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The following four soldiers of the Republic of Srpska Army were captured on May 26, 1993 and immediately executed:

Through mediation of UNPROFOR, the bodies of these four Serbian soldiers were handed over on June 28, 1993 to the authorities of the Republic of Srpska at the cemetery in Vlakovo.

Upon examination of Mičić's body, the doctor found out that he had a punctured top of the head and broken jaws and that his left foot was missing. Zimonja had fractures of both jaws, the nasal bone and the temple and his left forearm was broken. Half of Marilović's head was smashed on the right-hand side, his left ear was cut off, his left hand torn off and both his arms were broken. Šekerović had his throat slit and skull bones crushed.

EVIDENCE: Filed with the Committee under No. 122/95-4.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: The villages of Bodelište and Lipovac, the Commune of Brčko, March - April 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On March 8 and April 27, 1993, by order of the Headquarters of the 108th HVO Brigade of Bosanska Posavina, members of the Moslem-Croatian armed forces launched attacks from Gornji Rihać on the villages of Bodalište and Lipovac respectively. They captured, tortured and then killed 15 members of the Republic of Srpska Army and handed over their corpses on March 11 and May 7, 1993.

Mr. Zoran Stankovic, M.D., a forensic medicine specialist of the Military Medical Academy of Belgrade and Mr. Dragan Ninković, a physician from Brčko, recorded the following findings after the autopsy performed at the health centre in Brčko:

EVIDENCE: Contained in the documents filed under No. 144/95-9.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Orašje, 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At the beginning of May 1992, members of the Moslem-Croatian armed forces started arresting the Serb civilian population in Orašje, Bukova Greda, Kopanice and other places in the Commune of Orašje.

The arrested civilians were put in the camps situated in the high-school gymnasium in Orašje and in the elementary school in Donja Mahala.

Apart from killings, the members of the Military Police tortured and inhumanely treated the arrested civilians in the above mentioned camps, imposed forced labour, starved them, raped women and confiscated or destroyed their belongings.

The following civilians were killed:

In addition, four soldiers of Serbian nationality who had been captured in December 1992 during the attack on Vučilovac were killed in the camp in Donja Mahala in the first half of January 1993. Three civilian prisoners of Serbian nationality, who were suffering from tuberculosis were taken away in October 1992, allegedly to see the doctor, but they never returned to the camp.

Apart from the above mentioned civilians, another 40 unidentified Serbs from the Communes of Derventa, Odžak and Brod were killed in the camp in Donja Mahala.

EVIDENCE: 144/95-12 and 144/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Donja Mahala, the Commune of Orašje, May - July, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Members of Military Police of the Moslem-Croatian armed forces stationed in the camp of Donja Mahala, following the order by Command HQ of the 106th HVO Brigade of Bosanska Posavina, tortured, intimidated and applied inhuman treatment of the arrested civilians and prisoners of war detained in the camp between May 18 and July 18, 1992. The consequences of such treatment caused death of the civilian:

Luka Pekić, father's name Janko, born on August 29, 1963 in Bukovac, died on June 6, 1992, whereas

Cvijetin Maksimović, father's name Cvijetin, born on November 3, 1970 in Lukavac and Slobodan Panić, father's name Cvijetin, born on October 18, 1970 in Brčko, suffered severe injuries.

EVIDENCE: Documents filed with the Committee under No. 144/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, the camp situated in the former "Viktor Bubanj" barracks, July 1992 - February 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: While detained in the camp, like other Serb prisoners, the witness was exposed to frequent beatings and harassment.

During the stated period, according to witness's knowledge, the following Serb prisoners were either killed or died as the result of beating or starvation, or disappeared without a trace so that it could be reasonably assumed that they were killed, too:

The Serbs imprisoned in the barracks were starving because they received two meals a day consisting of watery soup and a slice of bread. Since some chemical substance was added to the food, many of them suffered from diarrhea and eventually died of exhaustion. The witness himself fell into a coma several times.

The witness and another 12 persons were kept in the room 2 m x 3 m in size. They had to lie on the concrete floor because there were no beds. There was no heating either. Hygienic conditions were very bad. Sometimes they could not wash for more than 15 days.

On January 27, 1993, the St. Sava Day, which is one of the greatest Serbian holidays, the warden took all the Serb prisoners out to the yard and ordered them to take off their shirts. They stood half naked for about half an hour in the temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. The warden said that it would to them good to catch some fresh air.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 675/94-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Grubišino Polje, August 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Spasoje Milošević, father's name Rado, born in 1957, lost his job in June 1991 as a policeman when, being a Serb, he refused to wear the Croatian insignia - a checkered emblem on his chest. This incident took place at the police precinct in Grubišino Polje where he worked.

His wife was dismissed from work at about the same time.

After that, Mr. and Mrs. Milošević started receiving telephone threats. Late hours shootings began in the direction of their house which was marked by night, just like the houses of other Serbs in Grubišino Polje.

On August 15, 1991 he went out to buy some beer and was arrested by members of the National Guard Corps who locked him in the rooms they occupied in the hotel in Grubišino Polje.

When his wife learned about this, she went to the hotel. The doormat in front of the hotel was made of the Serbian flag. There they refused to give her any information. After that she went to the Department of Interior of Grubišino Polje where she was told by Šandor Tot, the head of the Department, that they had nothing to do with the arrest of her husband, that it was outside their jurisdiction and that the members of the National Guard Corps were arresting the Serbs according to a special list. He also said that he would not have anything to do with Chetniks.

A few days later, one ZNG member told Mrs. Milošević in confidence that Spasoje had been killed.

Not until September 25, 1991 did she find out that his body was buried in a field near Grubišino Polje. The Department of Interior in Grubišino Polje advised her that it was true and that her husband's body was buried with a dredging machine belonging to the utility company. When she protested for not having been informed about the death of her husband, she was told that such bodies were not buried in the presence of next of kin.

Only after six months did she manage to get a permit for the exhumation of her husband's body which was carried out on April 15, 1992. The body was wrapped up in a tent canvas. She could only recognize his sneakers because they did not allow the canvas to be unwrapped or an autopsy to be made. Thus, the body was buried without her having seen him.

During the funeral, the Miloševićs' house was broken into and searched.

After that, the wife was compelled to sell the house and leave Grubišino Polje together with her children.

EVIDENCE: Witness No. 235/95-2.

NOTE: Supplement to the report No. II-029.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Breza, a camp situated in the "Breza" mine warehouse, first half of June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: About 30 arrested Serbs were detained in two rooms in the camp. The prisoners were lying on bare concrete and received no food during the first week, except a bottle of water.

Moslem soldiers used to enter the room several times a day and beat the Serb prisoners with their feet, fists, truncheons, rifle butts, etc. After each beating, the prisoners remained bruised and bleeding on the floor. The Moslem soldiers who beat them demanded that they wipe the blood off the floor.

The following persons died in the camp as the result of beating:

EVIDENCE: Witnesses 292/95-1, 292/95-2 and 292/95-4.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: The prison in Bihać, end of 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On October 26, 1994, together with other Serb civilians, the following person was also taken to the prison in Bihać:

EVIDENCE: 413/95 and 520/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Village of Brnjik, the Commune of Lopare, June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In the afternoon of June 5th, members of the Moslem-Croatian armed forces from Brnjik attacked the Serb part of the village called "Cvetkovići". About 5 - 6 members of the Republic of Srpska Army set off from Lukavica in order to help and protect the villagers and bring to safety the remaining civilians.

Goran Djurić, father's name Nedjo, born on October 10, 1936 in Lukavica, was wounded in the chest with fire arms on the road to the village. After that he was captured.

The captured wounded soldier was taken to the village of Brnjik and killed. A concave fracture 10 cm x 15 cm was discovered on his skull, made by a blow delivered with a blunt hard object on the top of the head.

EVIDENCE: Statements and photographic documents filed under No. 171/95-3.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Jablanica, November - December 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Members of the Republic of Srpska Army:

were captured on November 13, 1994 by members of the Moslem armed forces and locked in the basement of the Museum of Revolution in Jablanica. For some time they were kept there tied with barbed wire and tortured in various ways.

By mid-December 1994, the four prisoners were killed by Adnan Salčin and a Moslem major named Nihad. They used a pickax and a sword as murder weapons. Čolović and Radulović were killed first and Simić and Pudar after that.

Upon the exchange of their bodies in Podveležje, the autopsy report stated the following:

Čolović had a concave fracture of skull bones, fractures of skull base, skull top and facial bones, bullet wounds on both lower legs, fractured bones of both lower legs and four broken ribs.

Radulović had two stab wounds in the chest - one inflicted from below upwards and the other from right to left, as well as a concave fracture of facial bones.

Simić's body was handed over without the head which had been severed by a mechanical tool.

Pudar had a bullet wound on the left side of his neck, a concave fracture of facial bones, cuts on the neck and a fracture of the left elbow bone inflicted earlier.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Visoko, the camp established in the former JNA barracks, August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Šaćir Burko and Almir Ahmić, the camp guards in Visoko, took the Serb:

out of the prisoners' room and beat him up. Due to the injuries, he died in the prisoners' room.

The two guards also beat up:

who had been arrested during the attempted escape from Visoko and then brought to the camp. As the result of injuries, Dundžić died in the prisoners' room after a day or two.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of detainees - POW's

PLACE AND TIME: Visoko, the health centre, end of July 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Vojin Raković, who had been detained in the camp in the barracks in Visoko together with other Serbs from Visoko, was brought to the health centre in Visoko for medical examination of injuries.

In the corridor of the health centre, Mustafa Dedić blocked his way and started to beat him with his pistol butt until he fell on the floor. Raković received such injuries that he had to be carried back to the camp unconscious. He died the same day.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Okučani, May - June 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After his release from the camp in Zagreb where he had been incarcerated following his capture, the witness stayed for a while at Okučani.

Members of the Croatian Police would bring him in every day and would ill-treat him in a number of different ways. Like the other Serbs who had remained at Okučani, he, too, was forced to do hard labour for them.

As his freedom of movement was restricted, the witness was forced to spend the rest of the time at home.

For that reason, the witness left Slavonia and is currently living as a refugee.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Kruščica, near Jajce, April- September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The hamlet of Brdari near Kruščica, 11 km from Jajce on the way to Travnik was populated with 15 Serb families.

At the beginning of 1992 Croats and Moslems who were in the majority in this village formed the Headquarters of the Croat-Moslem armed forces.

Members of the HQ strictly controlled the movement of Serbs who were ordered to report to the HQ (seated in the elementary school) four times a day. Croat-Moslem armed forces patrols visited the hamlet of Brdari every day and searched houses. They barged into the Serb houses under the pretext that they were looking for arms and then they confiscated money, gold and other valuables. All that frightened Serbs who started evacuating women and children to safer places.

In late August uniformed and armed members of the Moslem armed forces from the surroundings of Prijedor and Kozarac came to the village. They confiscated all automobiles owned by Serbs.

The witness saw when a Serb woman who went to see her cows in the stable was taken into a house by 5 or 6 soldiers where they kept here for over an hour. When she left the house she was bruised and the witness believes that she was raped.

When the witness returned to his house on September 12 a Moslem girl dressed in uniform visited him and asked him where his wife was. When he said that she was visiting their relatives, the girl said that she came to make love with him. Then she unbuttoned her blouse and insisted on making love to him. When he refused, she ordered him to sit on a couch. Then about 10 armed Moslems came in. She told them that the witness refused to make love to her, the leader of the group said " Since your refused to make love to a young woman, I will either circumcise or castrate you like a horse".

Then he ordered the witness to strip naked, and then he pierced his arm with a bayonet and tired to engrave on his left shoulder a crescent with a star. Then he sliced his neck twice and pierced his legs and back. The witness was covered with blood. Then he caught him by his penis and threatened that he would cut it off and made two cuts on it.

That is when an armed Moslem neighbor came in and ordered him to leave the witness alone.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness and medical documentation (J-2) filed with Committee under No. 561/94-7.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, May-October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The killing of seven Serbs, reserve soldiers of the former JNA in a bus near Jajce, frightened Serbs in Jajce so much that many started leaving the town. Moslem-Croat forces blocked the town in late may 1992 and prevented Serbs to leave it.

Serb Houses, flats and garages were systematically searched.

In the second half of June 1992, HVO members took the witness to a prison located in the police building. There were another 12 of 13 Serbs detained in the same prison. On that occasion the witnesses identity card was confiscated but he was not interrogated. He was detained there for 24 hours and then they let him go.

A few days later, however, his flat was searched over again. Allegedly they were looking for arms. He was taken a number of times to the HVO Command building for the so-called "information talks".

In early August, when 3 or 4 HVO members were killed in armed conflicts with the Serb army, including the brother of Ilija Gavrić, he, Ilija Gavić arrested the witness and his father and took them to his home. There they were not interrogated. Instead they were beaten for over 3-4 hours continuously. The skin on the witnesses back was all torn up from the beatings and it took a number of months for the wounds to heal.

Gavrić put a knife under the witness¢ s throat and threatened to slice it. The witness was very frightened since Gavrić was drunk.

After beating them, they let the witness and his father go. However, they phoned him every half hour for three days checking if they were still in their house. They told them not to leave their house under any circumstances .They checked on them for twenty days.

In the first half of September of 1992, all Serbs were collected in trucks and taken to the front line. Soldiers mistreated, beat and insulted them and made them dig trenches while Serb forces opened fire.

HVO members confiscated the witness¢ s car "Zastava 101".

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 561/94-12.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, May-October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In May 1992 a Moslem gave the witness a list of Serbs from Jajce which included his name and explained that the people on the list would be slaughtered. The witnesses name was third on the list. He went to the police and told them of this list but they did nothing about it.

Although many Serbs had left Jajce the witness and his wife stayed believing that the situation would normalize and that there would be no war.

HVO members searched his flat a number of times. In the streets Moslems and Croats provoked him nd insulted him. Some even threatened him with guns and called him a "chetnik spy".

On June 4 a Moslem patrol pointed guns at him and ordered him to lie face down on the ground and stretch out his legs. One of them cursed his mother and beat him with his feet while others kept their automatic rifles pointed at him.

The witness, a well known teacher from Jajce, explained that that was the most difficult moment in his life.

A friend of his, a Croat saved him. He witnessed this scene from his balcony and shouted at the soldiers to stop it. Then one of the soldiers shot in the direction of this man's balcony.

In August the witness was taken to dig trenches at the first front line in the village of Gornja Vrbica.

He showed to his HVO officer medical documentation proving that he was suffering from a serious heart condition and asked that he be exempt from hard labour. Zjajo, the officer said that his medical certificate was not valid since it was issued by a Serb doctor.

The witness was taken a number of times to the first front lines only 150 meters from the Serb lines where he could have been killed at any time. He was wounded in his chest.

In order to reach their positions they had to cross a mine-field.

EVIDENCE: Testimony given by the witness filed with the Committee under No. 561/94-13/1.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, May-August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On May 28, 1992, Moslems and Croats introduced a strict regime in Jajce. They blocked the town so that Serbs could neither leave nor enter Jajce. Owing to such a blocked 900 or 1000 Serbs stayed in the town.

The Serbs stayed most of the time in their flats and houses. Two HVO soldiers brought the witness to the police station, located in the building of the former Employment centre. They told him not to leave his flat and ordered him to report to the police station twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. They searched his flat looking for arms and radio stations.

During his stays in the police station he was most often interrogated by Perak who insulted him and kept saying that as a Serb he had no business in Jajce, that Serbs are savages and that they should move across the river Drina.

In the police station Croat soldiers and policemen provoked and insulted him, and often beat and kick him with their boots.

The local radio and TV stations in Jajce were used for propaganda purposes and to insult Serbs. Reporters of Radio Jajce brought children from the first grade of the elementary school to take part in the shows. They would ask them "Arn't Chetniks savages and barbarians?" and then they would say "Your teacher was a chetnik, and he will never teach you again".

They showed pictures of wounded Serbs on TV.

The witness left Jajce on August 23. He was exchanged as a civilian. Before that they searched his body and his baggage.

EVIDENCE: Evidence filed with the Committee under No. 561/94-11.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians.

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, May - October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When Moslem-Croat forces blocked Jajce in early May 1992 the witness was in his house.

Serbs who remained in Jajce were not allowed to go out from their houses and were constantly controlled by the Moslem-Croat police and army.

In late September a person called Zgonić saw the witness on a street, put an automatic gun against his neck and threatened to kill him.

Then when the witness on 4 October, went to fetch water from a spring he was shot in his head and lost an eye.

In early July HVO members threw the witness out of his home and told him that they will kill him if he ever came back.

After plundering his house, they set it on fire three times, on 13 and 17 August and finally on 2 September when the witness saw Branko Stupar setting the house on fire.

Houses of other Serbs, Petar Jokić, Mirko Topić, Novak Terzija, Stojanka Šarić and Jovica Miličić were also set on fire.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 561/94-8

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Virovitica, 1991 - 1992

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness, a pensioner lived with his family in Virovitica.

The mistreatment of Serbs began in 1991.

The witness's daughter, a grade VIII student was mistreated by children in school. Other children used to write the word "chetnik" on her books. Also, children from her neighborhood yelled at her "Here comes the chetnik".

"Now is time to slaughter Serbs", "Now is the time to kill the chetnik" were the slogans to which the witness was constantly exposed to.

In restaurants, people would tell the witness: "Go away you Serb", or " Come and suck my c...".

He was severely beaten twice by some Croats. The first time a man called Knežević hit him suddenly on his back from behind while the witness was waiting for the lights to change. He fainted.

Another time, when the witness was leaving a restaurant two young men forced him back inside and then a group of them, including Knežević and a man called "Mravac" started beating him. He fainted and when he woke up he was bruised and covered with blood.

The witness stated the names of other beaten Serbs. He also said that Serbs Mićo Petrović and Željko Vujašković are missing.

In late 1992, when he heard a man talking about how he was tired of burying Serbs with bulldozers who had been killed in the villages of Lončarice, Dapčevica and Grubišino Polje, the witness decided to leave Croatia. Now he is living in Serbia as a refugee.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No.698/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Tuzla, 1992-1994

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness said:

"... Immediately after the war started Serbs got fired from work.

There is no life for Serbs in Tuzla. You cannot let your children out alone. There is always somebody who will kick, slap them and call your child a ¢ chetnik¢ .

Moslem refugees, and there are many in the town, pressured us Serbs to move out. The problem is that we could not leave the town.

Serb men were collectively arrested, dressed in uniforms and taken against their will to battlefields...".

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness before an investigative judge of the Municipal Court in Odžaci filed with the Committee under No. 540/94

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Livno, 1992-1993

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The heard witness, born in Livno, was arrested in April 1992 and spend three months in a camp located in the garage of the Police station, and then in "Ivan Goran Kovačić" elementary school.

Then until June 1993 he was a member of a "labour unit" composed of Serbs. This "labour unit" performed the most difficult jobs like digging of trenches and canals in the village of Rujane and Čaprazlije located on the first front line. They were under constant control of Croatian and Moslem guards.

In March 1993, Jašarević, a Military Police commander made him run with a Serbian flag in his hands through Livno. Then 30 members of the Military Police beat him, hitting him at least 10 times each.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-10

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Drivuša, Commune of Zenica, June 27, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was in her house with her in-laws and her two small children. Her husband was in imprisoned in the Correction house in Zenica.

Kapetanović, Kahriman and Jugić barged into her house. The witness woke up and saw them standing in the hall. All three were uniformed. One of them put a knife on her neck and asked her why did she refuse to answer the door. When she said that she did not hear the bell they started cursing her chetnik mother and beating her. They asked for money and gold and threatened to slaughter her.

Then they locked her in-laws in a room and ordered the witness to go with them to the bathroom. Kapetanović followed her, locked the bathroom door and ordered her to take off her night dress and threatened that he would slit her throat. Then he unbuttoned his trousers and told her to perform fellatio. She told him that she had never done that, not even with her husband, he said: "You must have seen in the movies how it is done ". Then he hit her across her face and forced her down on him. After that he made her lie down and asked her if she wanted him to make her a small chetnik, or if she preferred that he came in her mouth. He raped her and made her wipe his penis.

When Kapetanović left the bathroom, Kahriman came in and made her perform fellatio again, then he forced her to anal sex. The witness was in terrible pain and she started screaming which is why he pulled her by her hair and hit her head against the wall.

Then they took their TV set, a video tape recorder, three rings that the witness had on her fingers and earings, they left her flat. While they were in the flat, Šefik Jugić was in front of it guarding the door.

In the morning the witness's father-in-law went to the military police in Zenica. Policemen visited them in their flat and then asked her to come for a hearing to the Military court in Zenica where she was exposed to different forms of mistreatment.

EVIDENCE: Documentation filed with the Committee under Nos. 112/95- 2 and 173/95-1

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Mezgraja, Commune Ugljevik, September 1994

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 13 september, at about 5:30 a.m. Moslem-Croat armed formations lead by Avdičević and Mašić shelled the village of Mezgraja and the hamlet of Gajići from Teočak. Then they entered the village and killed the following persons:

Ružica Stevanović, of father Cvetko, born in 1950 was severely wounded. During the shelling Milica Nešković, born in 1932 was also wounded.

Her house and Gajić's outbuildings were burned down while the houses of Cvijetin Aleksić and Predrag Gajić were damaged with explosives.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the discussion with Steva Gajić, Milena Gajić, Vasilija Aleksić and Milica Nešković. Autopsy reports submitted by Dr. Zoran Despotović and hospital discharge report of Milica Nešković, photo-documentation all filed under 174/95-4.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Trnava, Commune Nova Gradiška, July 1991

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In mid-July 1991 members of Croatian police attacked the Serb village of Trnava. Then they captured the interviewed witness and took him to the centre of the village to their Command. They ordered him to dig his own grave just across the house in which their Command was based. While he was digging his grave the policemen who were standing nearby him made him dig it as deep as possible, telling him that the smell of his dead body will not be felt if it was buried deep enough. When he was nearly finished with digging, some commanding officer of the Croatian Army came by and ordered him to come out of that hole.

Shots fired from pistols and guns in the direction of his ear caused damage to the witness¢ s left ear hearing.

EVIDENCE: Filed under 715/95-3

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness had a flat of 67 m² in Bjelovar in Lisinski Street. She was the only Serb living in the building. Once a week different Croats visited her and insisted that she present papers and prove that the flat belonged to her. Then others came and asked for the same papers.

Finally, after running into many difficulties the witness got her citizenship certificate.

When she applied for a passport in 1992, The Ministry of the Interior at Bjelovar rejected her application and told her that all Serbs have to undergo interrogation before their passports are issued. Since she knew that they would mistreat her and that many Serbs had to return their citizenship certificates she left Bjelovar in September 1992 and illegally crossed the Croatian border.

She is now a refugee in Serbia.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 430/94

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Mostar, July - August 1992

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness, 53 years old woman, worked in a factory. She lived alone in her apartment.

After the outbreak of war members of Paraga's military units searched her flat every day.

All Serbs in her neighborhood were constantly controlled by the members of the "black shirt" units. The witness was forbidden contacts with Serbs, Moslems and Croats alike.

In July 1992, a 4 member patrol came to her place. They started beating her and cursing her "chetnik" mother. They asked about the whereabouts of one of her relatives.

Then they pushed her on a bed. Three men held her by her arms and legs, and then the fourth stripped her clothes off and raped her. Then another men raped her as well and ordered her to take all her valuables and money and come with them.

They took her to a camp located in a former military surgery.

First, the commander of the camp, called Zelenika interrogated her and confiscated her only piece of jewelry, a ring and 20.000 DM. She received no receipt at all. Then she was placed in a solitary where she was mistreated by different persons during the day while at night Zelenika visited her and raped her.

She stayed in the camp for 29 days where she was raped by a number of soldiers, including a person called Mrmo.

At night she could hear screams coming from other cells where other women were raped.

EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee under No. 595/95

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Zagreb, 1991 - 1992

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In 1991 Croats started mistreating Serbs. The situation was growing worse from day to day, until it became unbearable. The witness received anonymous phone calls every day, threatening that they would kill him, his wife and their son, telling them that they were chetnik and that they should move to Serbia. Most often, they received threatening phone calls at night.

He received a number of anonymous letters telling him to move out of Croatia.

He was threatened every day, but he did not go to the police because his neighbour who had similar experience was told by the police that there was nothing that they could do and that he should find ways to protect himself.

One day he saw 4 S letters written on his mail box and a message written over the entrance door to his flat saying: "Serbs, get lost or else we will slaughter you. What are you waiting for?".

The witness did not go out much because people would threaten and insult him. One day he entered his apartment building and saw a sign on the wall "No Serbs Allowed".

The situation was getting worse from day to day. What frightened him the most were threats saying that they would kill his child which is why he left Zagreb on July 1, 1992. Now he is a refugee in Novi Sad.

In one of the threatening letters he was told that they would take care of him like they took care of "Miloš from the Customs Administration Office". The witness learned that this man had been killed in his office.

EVIDENCE: Witness 71/95

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, 1992 - 1994

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After spending two months in camps for Serbs, fist in the premises of the soccer club "Famos", and then in the elementary school "Aleksa Šantić" in Hrasnica, then in the Cultural Center in Hrasnica, the witness was released. However he had to report to the "Green Berets" Military police.

This went on for three months during which time Moslem soldiers searched his flat nine times. Every time they confiscated his belongings and never gave him a receipt. They searched his flat at night when they would beat and threaten him.

In the period from November 1992 to September 1994 the witness was a member of a "labour unit" including 124 Serbs. They were forced by the "Green Berets" to dig trenches at Igman, Stoječevac, Ilidža, Bjelašnica and other places. They wore blue overcoats and caps and Moslems knew that they were Serbs. On their way to work Moslems would approach them, beat them, curse their Serb mothers and call them chetnik. Their guards also severely beat them.

Every day each Serb, member of that unit had to dig a trench 2,5 meters long, 140 cm deep and 60 cm wide.

Moslem and Croat soldiers made them carry their dead and the wounded from the first front line. They were rarely allowed to go home and often were forced to stay for 15 days at the front line and dig trenches.

21 Serbs were killed and 13 wounded from the unit to which the witness belonged. The witness named most of them.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-2

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Vrana, The Commune of Biograd, October 1991

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In early October, a group of Croat soldiers surrounded the witness' house where he lived with his wife and their four children. They kept them isolated until his arrest on November 2, 1991.

They mistreated him and his family every day in different ways. During interrogations they slapped the witness across his face in front of his children and his wife.

They spilled wine all over his house which they took from his wine cellar and filled his wine containers with fuel. They killed his livestock, 40 goats, 8 sheep and two donkeys. They slaughtered two of his dogs.

They would take him out of his house and tell his wife and children "let's go kill this man". Then they would beat and slap him for two or three hours and then bring him back home.

EVIDENCE: 236/95 - 13

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians

PLACE AND TIME: Zadar, October 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On October 7, 1991, at about 2 p.m., the witness was waiting for his wife in front of the Medical Centre of Zadar where she was employed when a group of 15 uniformed members of the Croatian police armed with automatic guns surrounded him shouting, "here is a Chetnik". One of them slapped him across his face, while others pushed him to the ground and made him kiss the Croatian land. Then they took him to the entrance hall of the Medical school and beat him with their feet and their rifle butts. Then they took him to another building where they continued to beat him together with some other policemen.

About half an hour later they took him to the building of the Ministry of the Interior, the court and prison. While he was waiting there he saw a metal cage with three young men in it. ZNG members and policemen asked people passing by to approach the cage and hit the men with their rifles. The three men fainted a number of times, and then the policemen would spill water on them.

After a 20 minute wait in the hall, the witness was taken to a solitary cell, and then to a room where he met three other Serbs from Zadar. He knew all three of them. During his imprisonment the guards beat him in a special room every night.

He lost 16 kilograms while he was in prison for one month.

He stayed in the prison until November 4, 1991 when he was exchanged in Pakovo selo together with other Serb civilians for Croatian soldiers.

This witness used to live in Zadar with his wife and two children. He was employed in the Technical school. After his exchange, his wife got fired from work in the Medical Centre where she had worked for 25 years. She left Zadar together with her children.

Their house was plundered and then burnt to ground.

EVIDENCE: Witness 236/95-9

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Daruvar - Bjelovar, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Despite the fact that an agreement had been concluded on the Serbs' surrender, the Croat armed forces persistently shelled the depth of the Serb territory in Western Slavonia from 14.00 to 17.00 hrs. on 4 May and also targeted civilian convoys. After that the Croatian army units started advancing across the Serb territory.

The witness was captured at Kraguj where they took down both his and other people's particulars. All men, regardless of age, were separated from women and children who stayed at Kragulj.

At around 21.00 hrs. they were taken by bus to Daruvar. Around 100 were brought there then.

There were among the captured men even some persons aged over 80 years, as for instance V.V., R.V., R.S. and others.

They were placed in a sports hall "Češki Dom" at Daruvar where Croatian soldiers slapped the detained Serbs on their faces and hit them with their rifles. The witness received a blow to his shoulder with a riflebutt. They separated the weak and the infirm from the younger ones and left them at Daruvar.

At around 2.00 hrs after midnight, those younger men were transported from Daruvar to Bjelovar and placed in a hall at the local sports center.

According to the witness's estimate, there were around 800 detainees at Bjelovar. All of them had surrendered in their civilian clothes even though they had been soldiers. It is only the commander of the brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Stevo Harambašić who had a uniform.

As soon as they arrived they were ordered to strip naked and to give their particulars.

At 6.00 hrs on the following day they called the roll for interrogation. The witness's name was called in the first group, they handcuffed the witness and all others in that group and interrogated them one by one. During this interrogation they were beaten by military policemen. The witness also received blows with a truncheon. After questioning which lasted until 16.00 hrs, they brought them back to the hall.

Other detainees were brought in for questioning in groups as well. The procedure was identical to that followed with the first group.

The witness was ill-treated and battered all six times during his questioning. He was beaten the hardest by a criminal inspector who was in civilian clothes. A large photograph of Ante Pavelić was always on his table. Ustashi symbols shaped as the letter "U" were put up on the wall.

The food rations that they were given twice a day were meagre and of poor quality. They would be given a small sandwich in the morning and at 21.00 hrs in the evening. During the first four days, the witness only ate once, for he had been away for questioning at the time when they distributed food there.

Croatian soldiers would stop them on their way to the toilet and beat them and ill-treat them. For that reason, most of the detainees did not dare go to the toilet at all.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, the camp at the sports hall, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having surrendered with a number of others from his unit in the Army of the Republic of Srpska Krajina on 4 May 1995, the witness was taken to the camp at Bjelovar which was located in a sports hall.

While he was giving his particulars, the witness was able to see the lists of detainees and is aware that at one point the last detainee number was 763. However, this figure was not final because new detainees were brought to that camp even after that.

On the second day following his arrest, i.e. on 6 May, the detainees were given uniforms which they had to put on. After that foreign and domestic journalists were brought in and told that the detainees had been arrested as Chetniks. The press proceeded to take pictures of them. Upon their departure, the uniforms were taken away and the detainees given back their clothes.

All the money and valuables that the detainees had had were taken away from them. The witness saw them seize DEM 15,000 from one detainee and DEM 5,000 from another. Neither the money nor any other valuables were ever returned to any of the detainees.

The detainees were taken in groups to the Military Investigation Centre at the Ministry of the Interior building for interrogations. The witness's turn to be interrogated, together with another 12 detainees, came on 13 May. During the interrogation the detainees were kept in the garage of the Military Investigation Centre. Most of the detainees were beaten and ill-treated in the course of their interrogations. A policeman known as "Kiseli" beat the detainees the hardest.

During their stay in the garages, some Croats from Bjelovar came in an organized manner to identify the detainees. Whoever was identified from among the detainees was then singled out, taken out of the garage and subjected to beatings.

The witness also noticed that some detainees were only brought to the sports hall after battery. Thus, M.B. was brought in almost uncoscious after a vicious beating: he had a catheter in his ribs area from which some blood was trickling down as a result of broken ribs and internal injuries.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, the camp at the sports hall, early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was captured on 3 May 1995 as a member of the Army of the Republic of Srpska. On the following day he was taken to the camp at the sports hall in Bjelovar.

The witness was brought in for questioning four times in Bjelovar. The investigators - military policemen - subjected him to beatings and torture. They beat him with their truncheons and with sandbags. When he fainted, they poured water on him. When he came round, they continued beating him and interrogating him. They insisted on being told which Serbs had allegedly committed crimes and been in command of the units. As the witness in most cases did not know the answers, he was subjected to even more vicious beating. They broke one of his ribs there. In addition, he also reported pains in the spine and kidney areas.

Other detainees were subjected to the same procedure as well. The witness saw that S.M. had received the worst injuries as he had previously been beaten in prison in Varazdin. A large number of detainees were brought to Bjelovar from Varazdin. All of them were subjected to horrible torture.

A young man from a village near Okučani was brought to the prison in Bjelovar with the others but had been beaten so hard that the witness doubts he survived.

The detainees were beaten in particular when they went to the toilet.

The witness stayed at this prison in Bjelovar 8 days.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, the camp at the sports hall, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Following the capture at Šeović where, according to the witness' s estimate, around 2,000 Serbs had been captured, the witness was one of a number of people taken first to Pakrac on 4 May and then to Bjelovar.

When the bus they were on reached the sports hall, the detainees were told to get off in fours, taken to the corridor of the hall, ordered to give their particulars and questioned as to where they had been and what they had done since 1991 onwards. Then they were made to take cold showers.

Prior to that, the detainees had been ordered to hand over all the things they had in their pockets as well as their identification documents. The detainees were not returned any of the things that were taken from them there.

The detainees were alloted places in the sports hall and were told to stay put.

On the same day they told them to take off their clothes and put on Croatian uniforms which, according to the witness's opinion, were made in America. The uniforms had the emblem of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) on their sleeves which one of the guards tore off from the witness's uniform. The detainees were ordered to walk around in those uniforms while journalists were filming them. After the press left, the detainees had to take off those uniforms, hand them back and put on their old clothes.

On the same day, 5 May, military policemen trampled on and kicked with their booted feet the witness and T.P. while they were lying on the floor of the sports hall.

The following day, 6 May, the witness was taken to be interrogated to the Secretariat of the Interior building. The detainees were interrogated both by military and by civilian investigators. The witness, who had been brought in for interrogation three times, would invariably start being beaten the moment he got off the vehicle and this would continue in the course of the interrogation as well. The first time, the witness was interrogated by a civilian and the other two times by the Military Police. The witness and others were also beaten by both their investigators and policemen who were in the same room. Mišo Šurkalović took part in that as well.

During the beatings they subjected the witness to, the perpetrators kicked him with their booted feet breaking two of his ribs and causing a swelling in his spine area.

The following were beaten the hardest: D.M., who remained in prison; B.M., whose whereabouts are unknown to the witness; and P.F. and I.B. who remained in prison as well.

The representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross registered the witness in the sports hall on 6 May.

After he was brought before the investigating judge, the witness was a member of the group which stood in the yard of the investigating prison and which was ordered at around 17.00 hrs to go up to the wall, form a line facing that wall, touch the wall with their foreheads and toes and put their hands behind their backs 5 centimetres above their waist. They stood in that posture until 23.00 hrs, i.e. six hours which is why they were all completely exhausted.

The witness did not receive any decision either from the judge or from the police following his interrogation.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, the camp at the sports hall and investigating prison, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness surrendered to the Croatian Army at Šeovica on 4 May 1995. Together with a group of around 750 captured soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Srpska Krajina he was transferred to the camp at the sports hall in Bjelovar. With him were also transferred a number of male civilians age over 60.

While they were at this hall, Croat soldiers came to ill-treat them and beat them at night.

A big photo of Ante Pavelić, Croatian leader during the Second World War, was put up at the entrance to the hall and was removed during occasional visits of foreign delegations. The detainees in that hall were also visited by Mate Granić, the Foreign Minister of Croatia, who came with some diplomats and persuaded them to stay in Croatia by promising them different benefits. Prior to the Minister's arrival, the detainees had been given uniforms with the breast chequered emblem and ordered to put them on. The event was even filmed by a television crew.

They called the roll of detainees to be taken for interrogations to the HVO barracks every day. While waiting, the detainees were placed in garages. They were forced to sing Ustashi songs in those garages, and the guards hit them with their truncheons and kicked them with their feet. They forced the detainees to slap each other on the face. The detainees were taken for questioning to the second floor of that barracks.

The detainees would stay between 8 and 10 hours in the barracks. Most of them were interrogated more than once. The witness was interrogated twice and then taken back to the sports hall.

From the sports hall the witness was taken to an investigating prison where he was forced to fill in a questionnaire and reply among other to the question: "Do you love Croatia?" The detainees at this prison were taken to see the judge one by one. However, the witness did not receive any decision on his detention nor on the conduct of an investigation.

A group of detainees from Varazdin was brought to the camp at the sports hall in Bjelovar as well. Most of them had been beaten and had visible bodily injuries - broken arms, legs, head injuries - and one of the detainees was brought in a blanket.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, the camp at a school, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After having spent some time in prison in Nova Gradiška the witness was released. However, after he returned to Okučani he was arrested and incarcerated at the camp at a school in Bjelovar. Detainees were placed in classrooms and in a sports hall.

The witness was brought in for questioning three times. He was ill-treated and beaten on those occasions. They hit him with their truncheons and kicked him with their feet. They ordered him to go to the wall, raise himself on his toes, placed nails under his heels with their points up. He had to stand like that for 45 minutes and was not allowed to lean against the wall. Due to the unbearable position he was in, occasionally he had to lower his heels against the nails and this caused him excruciating pain.

The detainees were beaten particularly hard when they went to the toilet. They forced the detainees to lick off the tiles in the toilet. They also beat the detainees in the classrooms where they were being held. Soldiers would occasionally enter those classrooms to beat them all one by one. Thus, they broke one of the legs and both arms of a K. from Podravska Slatina.

M.D. was brought from the Varazdin prison after severe beatings: his belly was badly swollen and bruised all over. They continued beating him in Bjelovar as well.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Varazdin, the camp at the sports hall, May 1995.

RIEF DESCRIPTION: After the capture, the witness was brought to the camp at the sports hall in Varazdin. According to his estimate, there were over 600 detainees in that hall.

When they arrived the detainees were forced to take showers and in the course of that they were punched and kicked by some policemen.

The detainees had to sit on the floor in the hall with their hands behind their backs and with their heads lowered toward their knees.

On the same day the perpetrators started taking the detainees out for questioning which took place in the locker rooms. A number of detainees were taken to town to be interrogated there. The detainees were beaten and molested on that occasion as well. Many of them received injuries, as for example M.V., B.S., M.S. and L.G. who did not return from one of such interrogation sessions. The witness does not know what has befallen him.

They beat the detainees even when they went out to the toilet. For that reason, they avoided going to the toilet and thus some of them did not relieve themselves for as many as 5 days.

The detainees were maltreated at the hall, there were repeated roll-calls, the detainees were forced to sing Ustashi songs. The witness states that throughout his stay in this hall he could not fall asleep.

Before any foreign delegation would come on a visit, the perpetrators would distribute cigarettes, tea and water to the detainees and after the departure of such visitors they would take all those items away.

The witness was taken for interrogation to the town and, if he remembers correctly, this took place at the Secretariat of the Interior building; he had to fill in a questionnaire and reply to questions such as which units he had been a member of from 1991 - 1995, what kind of weapons they had, from whom they had obtained them, who had been in command of such units, etc.

They transferred the witness from this camp to Gavrinci, where, through the mediation of the UNHCR he managed to cross over to the territory of the Republic of Srpska.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Pakrac, early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness and a group of arrested men were taken to Pakrac and placed in the police building where he was interrogated straight away. While interrogating him, the perpetrators were kicking and punching the witness so viciously that he fainted as a result. When he came to he established that he was in a cell. Policemen beat him some more in that cell: they would enter the cell one by one and beat him without any reason and as much as they pleased.

The following day, 3 May, they took the witness to a secondary school where the Military Police had its headquarters. They interrogated the witness there as well. During interrogation, the witness was kicked and punched. He found detainee S. there who had been beaten as well.

After the interrogation, they brought the witness and S. into the schoolyard and took it out on them in a number of different ways: they forced them to pluck up grass in the yard, trampled upon them, forced them to collect cigarette butts, to jump around and to catch flies and to say aloud "I am catching a fly.", etc.

During the witness's stay in Pakrac the police brought a TV crew to shoot his hearing and the witness had to give the answers that the policemen had told him before. He was also made to light a cigarette in front of the cameras, which was meant to show that he was receiving a fair treatment there. His hearing was later broadcast by Croatian television.

Twenty detainees from the vicinity of Pakrac were brought to this school and subjected to beatings by the guards which lasted all night long.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Slavonska Pozega, the camp in the women's prison, early May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The arrested Serb soldiers, who were brought to this camp, were battered and molested. They were beaten particularly hard on their return from interrogation, in the corridor, so that they entered their cells beaten up all over. Guards even entered the cells which were separated by steel bars and beat them. This was a daily routine.

The perpetrators did not let detainees sleep at night but would order them to do press-ups endlessly, sing Ustashi songs, etc.

Together with 26 other detainees, the witness was transferred to the Military Prison Remetinac in Zagreb as a remand prisoner where they continued their interrogation.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Nova Gradiška, the camp at the sports hall, 2 - 9 May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 2 May Croatian soldiers took all the Serbs they could find in Okučani by bus to Nova Gradiška. They placed them in the local Sports Hall. There were many men and women in that hall and even a large number of infants.

The woman witness cannot assess how many Serbs there were in that hall, but says that the hall was overcrowded.

On that day the detainees were not given anything to eat.

The detainees were taken out for questioning both in the mornings and in the evenings every day.

The woman witness was not beaten but she saw her female acquaintances come back from interrogation sessions with injuries. She gave names of four such women.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhuman treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Varazdin, the camp in the sports hall, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At around 15.00 hrs on 2 May 1995 the witness was captured at Garišnica. He was near the police station when three military transporters with UNPROFOR markings appeared. He and the others there did not react, assuming that the transporters were carrying UNPROFOR personnel. Then members of the Croatian armed forces jumped out of the transporters ready to fire. They were joined by approximately another 1,000 Croatian police and armed troops. According to the witness's estimate, around 6,000 people were captured on that occasion.

The arrested men were taken to the camps at Varazdin, Bjelovar, Daruvar, Slavonska Pozega, Kutina and Zagreb.

At around 04.30 hrs on 3 May the witness was taken along with 600 more detainees to Varazdin where he was placed in the camp at the sports hall.

The witness stated: "... When we came to this hall, we were ordered to sit down on the floor, put our hands behind our back, and lower our heads toward our knees. They kept us in that position until 9.00 hrs when they took us to have a cold shower.

Whenever the guards in the hall would notice anyone raising their head while we were sitting in that position, they would take them to the toilet for a beating. I was taken to that toilet for a beating several times.

The interrogation took place in the corridor and when the investigators assessed that somebody from our group was giving false information they would take them to the toilet and beat them. Such interrogations were conducted several times a day with each one of us in turn and I was interrogated in this manner in that corridor three times. Initial interrogations were conducted in the corridor and the rest in the rooms upstairs. I was subjected to beatings during my interrogation; they kicked me with their booted feet, inflicted grave injuries in the rib area and also knocked out my front upper teeth.

After 5 May, following their interrogation, certain detainees were transferred to the prisons in Bjelovar and in Zagreb respectively. As far as I know, the detainees who were taken to Zagreb have not been released and, apart from that, no information is available on their whereabouts.

It was only on 20 May 1995 that the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited us, registered us and gave us ICRC identification cards.

Prior to that visit, some detainees had been moved out of the camp to another camp and they were not registered with the representatives of the ICRC.

When I was taken out of Varazdin, around 200 detainees remained in that camp.

In Varazdin I saw men with broken arms and legs,grave head injuries and injuries to other body parts, as for example L.M. on whose whereabouts I have no information..."

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Orašje, the camp at the Secondary School Centre, October - November 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During her stay in this camp the woman witness was subjected to daily beatings together with other incarcerated Serbs. They beat her with nightsticks on her legs and hands. They also tied her leg and hand and suspended her. They pounded her with fists all over her body and knocked out 7 teeth in her lower jaw. They placed a pistol barrel into her mouth and even a bomb as well.

Croatian soldiers urinated in her mouth and forced her to swallow their urine.

The witness and others were made to lie on bare floor, without any cover or rugs.

The woman witness was not raped in this camp but was forced to engage in unnatural sexual intercourse so that she had to satisfy Croatian soldiers by letting them place their penis in her mouth.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-17.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Odžak, the camp at the factory "Stolit", May - June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After he was brought by car to this camp the witness felt very bad having been beaten up previously. When he asked for medical assistance, they told him that the Serbs were not given such assistance and that he would die there.

After that, a man called Tomić came accompanied by six more HVO soldiers, called the witness and cursed his Serb mother. He said that the witness should tell the truth or else he would be beaten up. As the witness had known Tomić even before, he thought that Tomić would protect him, so he told Tomić that he had nothing to talk about; Tomić then ordered the soldiers to start beating the witness. They battered him with their feet and fists on different body parts until he fainted. After that Tomić ordered the guardsmen to take out the witness, saying the witness was the worst Chetnik who had slaughtered Croatian and Moslem women and children, even though that was untrue. He said that he would be back in 15 days to see what they had done to him.

When Tomić reappeared after 15 days, he ordered the soldiers once again to beat the witness, so that they battered the witness until he fainted.

The witness spent 40 days at this camp and throughout that time Croatian soldiers would take him out to be beaten three times every day. They kicked and pounded him, hit him with handles, rifle butts, sticks and various other objects.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-26.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, June 1992

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was arrested at Donji Miholjac and taken to the Red Barracks in Osijek, where he was incarcerated for a period of one month.

When they arrested him they took away DEM 1,000, a gold chain and a wristwatch and never returned them to him.

The witness was interrogated every day and beaten with sticks all over his body. They demanded from him to admit that he was a Chetnik.

Unable to endure it all, he attempted to hang himself but did not succeed because the rope broke off.

After the witness came out of this camp, he was treated for mental derangement at the Mental Health Institute in Belgrade.

EVIDENCE: Witness No. 584/94-25.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Slavonski Brod, the camp at the bowling alley in the restaurant "At Bardak's", in June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This camp housed some Serbs from Croatia, whom the witness did not know, but he saw that they were swollen and blood-stained upon their return from interrogation.

One night came a man called Cindrić, wearing a HVO police officer uniform, and took the witness to a room in which there was a table on which there was a great deal of food and drink and told him: "You will do whatever you are shown to do from the opposite side", and then they turned on two cameras to film it.

The witness stated that he saw for the first time how bad he looked: he had a very long beard and long hair, for they would not permit him to shave in the camps at which he had stayed earlier on. They made him put on a furcoat, put a big furcap with a cockade on his head, and woollen socks and Serb peasant shoes on his feet, and then played some Serb music. Then Cindrić showed him that he should stand up and dance, and the witness had to do it and when he showed him how to drink from a bottle filled with water he did that too.

Soon after that a woman came, her name was probably Nada Alisa from Zagreb television and gave him the text of a statement which he was to make saying he was a Chetnik Duke, that he had raped Croatian and Moslem girls under 13 years of age, and that he had cut off their breasts and slit the throats of Croatian and Moslem children.

The witness stated that he could not do that and then Cindrić proceeded to hit him with a heavy object on his head.

They continued torturing him even after that: they tied up his feet and made him hang upside down. The witness does not know how long he was suspended like that for he fainted.

The following day, he was given electric shocks; they would pour water on his chest and applied on it certain objects similar to brushes which were connected with an electrode and thus caused terrible pain and nose and mouth bleeding.

They tied up his sex organ with a cord and while he was standing with his hands up they kept beating him until he fainted. Before that they threatened to cut off his penis if he fell or that he would cut it off himself if he fell down.

The witness at the bowling-alley camp was in a cellar room and slept on bare concrete without any cover or rugs.

One day the witness and a group of arrested Serbs were taken to another room. They ordered the witness to open his mouth, took his tongue out and dried it with a cloth and placed burning cigarettes on it, threatening to liquidate him if he reported on any of those things. They did the same to the other men in that group.

The witness and others in the same group were taken to another room where they made them sit at a table laden with food and drink and then brought in the representatives of an international organization. The witness was unable to eat anything due to his tongue wounds and Cindrić explained to the representatives that the witness was a notorious Chetnik and that he even refused to eat the food on that table.

The witness was taken out of this camp four times in order to be exchanged at Gradiška, but was not exchanged after all.

One evening, several days before the exchange, they took the incarcerated Serbs to a room where some Croatian soldiers were eating and drinking and having fun while someone was playing the accordion. They ordered the witness and a group of Serbs which they had brought in to strip naked and stand face to face and then they had to take each other's sex organ into their mouths.

The witness stated that the same order was given to a father and his son, whose names he gave, so that they had to satisfy each other in an unnatural way.

At the time of his arrest, the witness weighed 100 kgs and only 61 kgs when he was exchanged.

EVIDENCE: Testimony by witnesses and medical documentation (D-6) filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-18.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the city stadium, July 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: One evening Kljajić entered the room where the witness was put up and kicked the witness, cursed his Chetnik mother and then said: "Now I'll cut your throat."

He ordered the witness to strip naked up to his waist and to lie on his stomach and when the witness was already convinced that he would slit his throat, Kljajić inscribed with the blade of his knife a cross and four letters S on the witness' back.

When Kljajić cursed the witness' mother again, the witness spoke back for, as he explains, he was convinced that Kljajić would kill him and this was precisely what the witness wanted in view of daily beatings and ill-treatment that he was subjected to for if that happened it would bring all his suffering to an end.

Kljajić went away leaving him alone for a while and when he returned after some time he had a big pistol in his hand and said that he would use it to put the witness to death.

However, Kljajić only beat up the witness instead.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-28.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the prison in the Municipality Hall, from 30 March to 3 April 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness, age 45, was arrested by HVO members and the "Green Berets" at his apartment and taken to the Brod Municipality Hall where they locked him up in room No. 31.

When they arrested the witness, they took away a new passenger vehicle "Lada", the keys of his house and his savings amounting to DM 3,000.

After he was taken to the Municipality Hall, he was interrogated. They asked him about the whereabouts of the Serb army and how many troops it had and refused to take into consideration his explanations that he did not have any such information. This is why Josip put out his cigarette against the witness' upper right and left palm as evidenced by the still visible scars. He then placed his burning cigarette against the witness' right temple and inscribed the Ustasha symbol "U" on the witness' forehead. The others kicked the witness and hit him with their fists and with parts of a broken chair. As a result, the witness was covered in blood and fainted several times.

Such torture would be repeated every six hours when they would come to his room and beat him viciously. Oldobašić made him take off all his clothes, and proceeded to beat him with the spit used for lamb barbecues. Omerović took the witness' head and hit it against a steel strongbox which was in that very same room until the witness fainted.

Josip cut off the witness' moustache with a knife and made him eat them up.

Such "treatment" lasted four days and four nights and was repeated every six hours.

The witness sustained a right-shin fracture, right and left rib fractures and a spinal cord injury.

On 3 April HVO members took him to the Sarajevska Str. near the foodball stadium and made him climb the terrace on the first floor of a partly demolished house owned by Gligor Benak and to call out to the Serb army which was in the vicinity and ask them not to shoot.

The witness called the Serb army twice but there was no response. When he sought to call them the third time, Croatian soldiers fired a burst in his direction, and shot him in his left leg loin area. The witness then jumped from the terrace and managed to run over to the Serb-held territory.

After this, the witness was taken to hospital in Doboj to receive prolonged medical treatment.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-29.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Slavonski Brod, the camp at the bowling alley in the restaurant "At Bardak's", in June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having been arrested, the woman witness, age 65 then, was put up in a room with 4 elderly and 3 younger women.

As soon as they arrived in the room, a Croatian soldier entered the room and took out the three younger women. When they returned they said they had been raped.

A Croatian soldier demanded from the woman from the village Polje, whose identity is known to the Committee, to take off her clothes in the presence of the witness. When the woman replied that she was having her period, the soldier forced her to satisfy him by placing his penis into her mouth, all in the presence of this witness.

During her stay at this camp, the detainees were given food every second or third day and it consisted of a small slice of bread and some broth. Croatian soldiers used to say: "You are old, you do not even need any food at all."

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-30.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the city stadium, from 7 July to 19 August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The woman witness, age over 50, was arrested in Brod together with her husband and they were both taken to the camp at the stadium where they were separated. They locked the woman witness into a room where there were 12 more women and took her husband to a men's room.

The witness gave names of 9 women with whom she was at the same room where they slept on 5 or 6 beds. Croatian soldiers would come to this room and order the women to take off their clothes and then raped them all. They would do it in the presence of other women and would first of all batter them and threaten to kill them all if they resisted them.

They would occasionally take them to other rooms where Croatian soldiers slept and raped them there as well.

The younger women were taken to the first combat line and on their return the women said that they had been raped by 6 to 10 soldiers each there. According to this woman witness' words, those women were an awful sight because apart from having been raped they had been battered as well.

The woman witness stated that she could not give an accurate number of Croatian soldiers who had raped her, but that there had in any case been very many of them indeed. She would be taken to a room where even as many as 10 soldiers were waiting; the first five would rape her and the others would place their male sex organs into her mouth and thus satisfy their lust. In addition, they placed a pistol barrel into her vagina. They gave free rein to their desires in other ways as well and kept cursing her mother and calling her a Chetnik.

At night one could hear screams and moans from the men's department as well as shots. The woman witness saw them take out men stark naked and beat them until they fainted.

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-31.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the city stadium, September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The woman witness, age 38, was asrrested in Brod with her husband and taken to the camp at the city stadium in Brod.

They locked her up in a women's room with another 6 women.

As soon as the witness was put up in this room, Croatian soldiers entered the room ro rape the witness and other women in that room. They all wore HVO uniforms. Before they did it, they most often threatened the women by saying they would kill them or cut their throats and pounded them with their fists on different body parts.

In addition, the woman witness was taken to the front line where she was raped by Moslem and Croatian soldiers deployed along the line. They would then take the women back to the camp. She was taken to the frontline by Blažević.

The woman witness recalls that she was raped by 10 Croatian soldiers one evening.

In addition, she was forced to engage in unnatural sexual intercourse by letting them place their penises in her mouth.

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-32.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod, (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the Secondary School Centre, end of September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During the witness' stay at this camp, two Serb detainees managed to escape. After this happened, the Croatian soldiers ordered all men to strip stark naked and hit them with their feet, with their fists and sticks, until most of the detinees fainted.

They tied them up with a cord by the feet and thus suspended them. They spent several hours, and some of them even the whole night, hanging upside down.

They kept hitting the detainees with whatever they could get hold of.

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-32.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the city stadium, end of June - end of August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The woman witness, who was aged 64 at the time of her arrest, was brought from Brod where she had been living with her family, i.e. with two adult sons and a daughter.

She was put up in a room where she found a dozen other women. They took her immediately to a cellar where a Croatian soldier, having inquired about her sons, ordered her to take off her glasses and started hitting her on the head. His blows damaged her hearing. The soldier went on hitting her until she fainted. After that she was returned to the common room.

Croatian soldiers committed rape against all the women detained in the room where the woman witness was put up. They would often barge in at night, order the women to take off their clothes and rape them. As she was older than the others, they forced her to satisfy them by letting them place their male sex organs into her mouth.

Rapes were committed in the presence of all of those women and sometimes they would also take several women out of that room and rape them outside. Upon their return, the women said that they were raped by 7 Croatian soldiers each.

The incarcerated women were humiliated and ill-treated on a daily basis. In addition, they beat them, cursed their Serb and Chetnik mothers and kept telling them that they would send them down the Sava River to Belgrade. They also threatened to kill them and told them that they cannot stay alive in the Croatian state even though Bosanski Brod has never formed part of the Croatian state.

During the visits by the International Red Cross delegations, the women from this room were hidden and taken to the kayak club in Bosanski Brod saying that their rooms had to be disinfected.

As a result of poor food rations at the camp, the witness lost 20 kgs.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-33.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the "Beograd" Department Store warehouse, early July 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At around 13.00 hrs on 5 July the witness and four other Serb detainees at this camp were ordered to get out into the yard.

They were called out by Hamzić. When the witness got out, they started beating him with their feet and their fists, as well as with baseball bats all over their bodies.

As a result of those blows, the witness fainted and when he came round and wanted to get back on his feet again, Miloš kicked him in the left knee area and thus broke his left knee joint.

After he received those blows the witness could not move so that they put him in the boot of a vehicle and drove him somewhere threatening to kill him along the way.

The witness did not know that an exchange would be arranged.

They took him for an exchange to Dragalić near Gradiška.

After the exchange, the wintess was taken to hospital at Prnjavor where he was extended first aid, and then to hospital in Banja Luka where he was admitted to the Orthopedic Ward and kept from 5 to 23 July 1992. After that he was treated until December 1992 and had several leg and head area surgeries.

EVIDENCE: Testimony and medical documents filed with the Committee under No. 412/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, second half of January 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having been captured as a JNA member, the witness was incarcerated in the Secretariat of the Interior Affairs building in Osijek.

They took the captured witness and other Serb soldiers out of jail and walked them around Osijek. They kept kicking them and hitting them with their riflebutts. When they approached some civilians in a bread queue, they would push the detainees toward the civilians and encourage the civilians to hit them and kick them.

As they were walking them around the town, they forced them to shout at the top of their voice that they had been in the first combat lines of the Chetnik army, that they had killed innocent people, raped children and burnt down houses.

EVIDENCE: Testimony and other evidence filed with the Committee under No. 622/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The camp Čelebići near Konjic, end of May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having surrendered at Donje Selo near Konjic, the witness was taken to the camp at Čelebići on 25 May 1992. Immediately upon his arrival, the guardsman who had taken his particulars and those of another four detainees, lined them up against the wall and ordered them to turn their faces to the wall and to stand still with their hands raised above their heads. They spent as many as 6 hours in that position.

The following day the witness was taken to "Bata" Alikadić, who asked him who had killed his two soldiers at Donje Selo, but since he did not know the answer, Bata grabbed a bottle and hit the witness on the head with it. He then pushed his pistol barrel into the witness' eye and told him that he would kill him and throw his body to the dogs to tear it apart.

He then asked the witness who had killed the Moslem soldiers, and dissatisfied with the answer, he took another beer bottle and hit the witness on the head.

He proceeded to smash 20 more beer bottles against the witness' head.

He then ordered the witness to kneel down before him and kicked the witness in his head 25 - 30 times.

EVIDENCE: Testimony filed with the Committee under No. 354/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - PoWs

PLACE AND TIME: Vitez, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Serbs were a minority at Vitez.

Even before the war broke out the Croats and Moslems had organized rallies in Vitez and said that the Croats in Croatia are threatened by the Serbs, that the Serbs are the worst villains, that they should be killed off and expelled. Their rallies were also attended by the people whom they had brought from Herzegovina and from other parts and they demanded that arms be distributed to them and that Serbs be killed. They made dummies and inscribed the names of Slobodan Milošević, Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić on them, set the dummies on fire at the centre of Vitez in front of the Post Office building for everybody to see.

Croat and Moslem soldiers started barging into Serb houses and apartments, conducted searches and took away whatever caught their fancy. In the process they would beat up all the present Serbs and forbid them to move around the town saying that in case they see someone in the street they must not talk to each other at all.

They also barged into Serb-owned cafes and took away whatever caught their fancy and then proceeded to close them down.

In April 1992 persecutions of the Serbs began in Vitez. They started arresting respectable Serbs and took them nobody knows where. Many went missing and no information is available as to what has happened to them.

On 9 June Vlado Ramljak and three more Croats clad in black uniforms with a big letter "U" on their caps, identical to those worn by the Ustashis who committed genocide against the Serbs in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during the Second World War, burst into the witness's apartment without ringing the bell or knocking at the door, and immediately handcuffed the witness, searched his apartment, blindfolded him with a cloth and took him into their vehicle.

They drove him to the cellar of a house in the Kruščica community where they kept him locked up for 9 days.

They kept beating the witness on his stomach, his chest and his head. They knocked out 10 of his teeth and broke 5-6 ribs on both his left- and righ-hand side.

During that time they did not give the witness any food, nor any water. They kept cursing his Serb and Chetnik mother, repeatedly told him that he would be killed and that life was over for him. His hands remained tightly cuffed and the cuffs tore off his skin so that his bones were visible.

While they were beating him, they played for him the pre-recorded tape of his wife and child screaming and their conversation and on that basis he was led to believe that they had been tortured.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 234/95-20.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - PoWs

PLACE AND TIME: The camp in the Tisovac Hotel compound near Busovača, June-July 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This hotel compound housed the chief staff of the Ustasha Command and a camp for the Serbs in several small rooms.

The incarcerated Serbs were viciously molested and battered. They had to respond to the hail "For the homeland" by saying "Ready".

The interrogated witness was not ill-treated because as a result of previous torture his health had deteriorated and he was unable to move.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 234/95-20.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - PoWs

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, the camp in the Secretariat of the Interior building, from July to September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After they arrested the witness they put him in solitary confinement. The cell had a concrete floor and there was no furniture in it.

While the witness was in that cell, the guards beat him several times every night.

They threatened to bring "Filka", a specialist in cases such as his, and one night she came, ordered him to stand up against the wooden door of the cell and started hurling at him - like they do at a circus - automatic-rifle bayonettes which stuck around his body.

She then proceeded to tear his shirt and put out cigarettes against his body leaving around 10 blisters.

She cut him across the nose with a bayonette.

"Filka" came about 10 more times to beat the witness.

After the witness was transferred to a collective room, 4 or 5 drunken HVO soldiers burst into it one night. They had just come from the frontline and started beating them all. The soldiers had camouflage paint all over their faces. All the detained Serbs were covered in blood. They made them lick off their blood from the concrete floor, refusing to allow them to raise their heads. When at one point the witness raised his head, he received a blow on his right arm and a triple bone fracture.

They also took individual detainees to the corridor to beat them some more.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 561/94-3, also confirmed in the record No. 561/94-5, as well as the findings of the Expert witness commission which examined the witness and found that he had received a right shoulder bone fracture, resulting in the atrophy of his muscles in the right shoulder area and a reduced mobility of the right hand, as well as two rib fractures. As a result of the physical and mental traumas experienced by the witness, his personality traits have changed irrevocably reducing to a considerable extent his general and working capacities (J-1).

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, the camp in the Secretariat of the Interior building and in the Secondary School Centre, from June to October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness, a peasant woman age 57 years, was arrested in her home in the village and was first taken to the camp in the Secretariat of the Interior building.

During her interrogation they made various threats but they did not beat the witness. They ordered her to stand against the door and then hurled knives at the door around her.

They played the pre-recorded tape to her on the ordeal of the Serbs at the hands of the Croats and Moslems and on how her family members had been killed by the Croats and Moslems. The tape further mentioned that her husband and son had reportedly been murdered and that the Moslems and Croats played football with their chopped-off heads.

They kept playing the same cassette to her every day.

Upon her release, the woman witness says she was so exhausted and disoriented that she failed to recognize her own son and husband when she saw them.

She still feels the consequences of her term in prison and cannot stay alone even for a minute. She has particularly strong fears at night and suffers from insomnia.

After the witness was arrested, her three cows, two sheep, eleven hens and eleven hogs were taken to the village Grdovo near Jajce.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record No. 561/94-4.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, the camp at the "Electro-Vrbas" Administrative building from 6 - 24 September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After he was captured the witness was brought to the Police Command HQs of the so-called B/H Army Territorial Defence, which was located in the basement of the "Electro-Vrbas" Administrative Building. He found three more Serbs there who told him that they had been captured in the village Barevo. They wore JNA uniforms, were barefoot, battered and covered in blood. All three men were taken out and later on the guards said that they were swimming in the Vrbas River and the witness hence concluded that they had been shot dead.

The witness was beaten up immediately and sustained a number of bleeding head wounds. They also knocked out two of his teeth.

One night the witness was taken to an office where they clipped a microphone on his lapel and the witness later on realized that his interrogation was carried on live by Radio Jajce as part of a broadcast titled "A midnight talk with a Chetnik".

One of the policemen was wetting his knife during the interrogation, testing its sharpness by cutting some paper and by pricking the witness' left hand with its blade and, as a result, the witness's hand was injured and swollen up. They had some questions prepared in advance and would beat the witness whenever he was unable to answer them or refused to reply.

Quite often at night Moslem soldiers would come from the frontline, burst into the witness's cell and batter both the witness and all the other detainees in it.

The detainees avoided going to the toilet because they were subjected to beatings by the guards in the corridor whenever they did so.

The witness was beaten most viciously on the delicate leg areas, i.e. on the inner sides of his thighs, on his shins and soles of feet, as well as on his toes, so that consequently his feet and legs swelled up and his toenails fell off.

As a result of his stay in this prison, the witness finds it hard to do even minimal physical assignments, is agoraphobic, has nighmares, backache and breathing difficulties.

EVIDENCE: 561/94-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Nova Gradiška, the prison within the barracks, in late 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: There was a detained women's room just across the room with detained men.

ZNG members would often burst into those rooms and rape detained women. The women's screams could be heard coming from that room almost every day.

Among the detained women there was an injured young girl from Zaječar who was raped by several of them. They also forced a captured young man to rape her. The witness gave the young man's name.

EVIDENCE: 423/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Tuzla, the camp in the airport hangars, December 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: As a member of the Republic of Srpska Army the witness was captured in early December 1993 and taken immediately to the airport hangar in Tuzla. He was put in a room size 4 m by 3 m with 26 other Serbs. Due to lack of space, they could not lie but only squat or sit with their backs against the wall.

It was pitch dark in this room. At night an electric bulb was turned on. An electric bell was switched on so that it rang all night long preventing the detainees from falling asleep.

As soon as the witness arrived, they took off parts of his uniform so that he remained only in his long pants and undershirt.

The detainees were not given anything to eat during the first three days. After that they gave them the debris of the meals given to Moslem soldiers, in old tins, and as they were not given either spoons or forks, nor a knife, they drank liquid food and ate the rest with their hands.

The hygiene at the camp was poor: the detainees were not given any water to wash themselves, nor could they wash their faces and had to relieve themselves in a pail in a corner of the same room in which they were accommodated.

Moslem soldiers subjected the detainees to different kinds of abuse and torture on a daily basis.They once brought a 2 cm wide board into the room and forced the detainees to hit their heads against it saying they wanted to see whose head was the hardest.

They forced detainees to have sex with each other, made the detainees penetrate each other's rectum or perform fellatio on each other.

At night women's shrieks and screams for help could be heard, most probably coming from the women being raped.

The camp was twice visited by the International Red Cross but the witness believes that as for the first time it had not been a genuine Red Cross delegation. During the second visit, assailed by fears as they were, they had to say that they were fine at the camp even though it could be concluded that their living conditions were deplorable.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record filed with the Committee under No. 88/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Gornji Rahić, commune Brčko, September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During and after the attack launched by the Moslem-Croatian armed formations on the village Bukvik on 14 September 1992, the civilians who had been unable to run away from the village were captured and all their valuable personal effects including cash, gold, clothes, etc. were confiscated. They were then taken to the camp at Gornji Rahić. Following the orders of Pljakić and Avdić, the guards in the camp Hadžić, Čaušević and Kalić tortured and subjected to inhumane treatment the arrested civilians whom they were interrogating by pounding and kicking them, by hitting them with rubber sticks and riflebutts and threatening that they would slaughter them. In this manner they inflicted severe bodily harm on the following arrested civilians:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records, medical findings and a medical specialist's opinion on the witness's injuries, all filed with the Committee under No. 144/95-3.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Gornji Rahić and Maoči, commune Brčko, May- September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During May and September 1992 Moslem-Croatian armed formations sent captured Serb civilians to the camps at Gornji Rahić, Maoči and Tuzla.

The guards and the members of the Military Police Force in those camps tortured and abused the detained civilians (hit them with iron bars, plastic cables, inflicted wounds all over their bodies with knives, put out cigarettes against their skin, a.s.o.) and also forced them to dig out inactivated mines. The following detained civilians were treated in this manner:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records and medical documents filed under No. 144/95-17.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Rijeka, July 1993 - June 1994, the camp at the garrison prison at Ciotina 24.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having served his jail sentence passed by the magistrate, on 16 July 1993 the witness was taken by inspector Ivo Radman to the military garrison prison at Ciotina 24 near the railway station.

As soon as the witness came to the prison they started hurling insults at him, molested him and threaten to set him on fire. They accommodated him in a room with 14 more Serbs whose names the witness has given.

They were in the habit of abusing and beating up detainees and the police guardsmen battered them wherever they could and with whatever they got hold of. The witness and other detainees spent all of their time indoors. They were never taken for walks at all.

The witness gained the impression that nobody knew anything in this prison.

They never interrogated nor tried the witness in court and it was only in April 1994 that they took him out for a walk for the first time.

With the assistance of the Serb community in Croatia, the witness came to Yugoslavia via Hungary in late June 1994.

EVIDENCE: 532/94-5.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs.

PLACE AND TIME: Tuzla, the camp in the old mine near the "Sloboda" stadium, second half of May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was captured with 140 more JNA soldiers at Kozlovac on 15 May and brought with all the others to the camp "Stari Rudnik" (Old Mine) near the "Sloboda" stadium where they were accommodated underground.

There were 30 captured JNA soldiers in the room with the witness.

They were battered every day. There were always 5 or 6 guards in front of the room where they were locked up and they beat them with whatever they got hold of, but most often with their feet, riflebutts and different kinds of rods.

They were given food only once a day and on alternate days; their meal consisted of some broth and a tin.

The guards were particularly fond of organizing fights between the detained Serbs; the Serbs had to hit each other until the guards were satisfied.

The detainees were forced to have homosexual intercourse with each other as well as to place each other's sex organ into their mouths.

The detainees also had to eat their own faeces, pluck up grass and several detainees had to let the guards urinate in their mouths.

During the 15-day period which the detainees spent in this camp, around 10 soldiers were killed.

EVIDENCE: Documents filed with the Committee under No. 127/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The camp at Dretelj, second half of August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During her stay in this camp, the woman witness was raped like a number of other women whose names she gave.

A woman called Jasna was most cruel to the detainees and particularly hard on women.

The witness recalled vividly a woman whose name she gave who was raped in front of her husband and son, which was a horrible sight indeed.

The woman witness further stated that the murder of Boža Balaban from Mostar, described in earlier reports, had made a terrible impression on her.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record filed with the Committee under No. 595/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, Central Prison, February 1993 - November 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In August 1993 the witness was registered for the first time by the International Red Cross. Even though he had spent more than a year in prison, they persistently were hiding him from the Red Cross. On that occasion he was examined by a physician who told him that he would urge for his release on the grounds of poor health.

The detained Serb Zelić Dragan from Ključ committed suicide following repeated battery and ill-treatment at this prison.

Bajramović, who often came to visit the detainees, molested them in a number of different ways, beat them up and shot above their heads.

They brought foreign journalists several times to the witness's cell and showed them the witness as a Chetnik leader who had distributed weapons to the Serbs and organized an uprising against the Moslem authority. The witness was once taken out to be filmed by a German TV crew and when he refused to let them film him, he was beaten up by Dautović.

During his stay in this prison, they gouged out with a baconette an eye of a person whose name the witness gave and burnt another detainee's hands with red-hot wire.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records filed with the Committee under No. 675/2-94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, the prison at the former barracks "Viktor Bubanj", the second half of 1992 and in early 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After he was brought to this prison, the witness was interrogated and the investigators took notes and told him that they would type out the record later on.

When they brought the record two days later, the wintess insisted on reading it by himself. Having done so, he saw that it did not reflect what he had said but something else and therefore stated that he did not wish to sign such a record. They immediately started beating him with their sticks.

The witness was afterwards also heard by Ignjac who told him that he was interrogating him in his capacity as Public Prosecutor. Throughout the interrogation there was a guard in the room who kept beating the witness all the time while Ignjac demanded from the witness to admit everything.

The witness received a decision on his detention in this prison which indicated that he should remain in custody for a month starting from 4 August 1992 even though the witness had been arrested a month earlier. He lodged a complaint against such a decision but the prison warden returned his appeal to him saying there was nothing to complain about although the decision indicated in the part concerning his right to legal remedy that the witness has the right to lodge a complaint against such a decision within 3 days as from its receipt.

The witness was tried on 13 January 1993. His counsel for the defence proposed that the hearing be postponed on account of the witness's poor health for, as he indicated, the witness looked as if he had come out of Auschwitz. At 85 kilos when he came to the prison the witness weighed no more than 42 kilos during the trial. The judge overruled this motion. The witness stated that he was not a war criminal because he had not taken part in the war at all and that he was arrested in hospital. During the trial the judge shouted at him and ordered a police officer to beat him up. The witness was thrown out of the court-room after that and was later told that he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The witness remained in prison until 9 November 1994 when he was exchanged.

EVIDENCE: 675/94-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Breza, the camp in the premises of "Elektroterma", June - October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: There were between 30 and 40 arrested Serbs in a cellar 6 m by 5 m large. They were lying on the bare concrete floor without any coverlets. The room was dark, with concrete floor and walls, without any windows or light.

They were given food only once a day and it consisted of a small slice of bread and two spoonfuls of boiled beans or rice. Occasionally they would give the detainees some unsweetened tea as well.

They repeatedly threatened the detainees that they would all be shot down, that no Serb can live in a Moslem state, they cursed their Chetnik mother and Serb mother. When a Moslem soldier would enter, they would all have to stand up and hail him with "Merhaba, Sir."

The detainees were often taken to the adjacent room to be beaten and to sign some statements. The guards were particularly cruel to the younger detained Serbs.

They told the detainees that they would take them to be tried in court but this has not happened.

EVIDENCE: Witnesses 292/95-1, 292/95-2, 292/95-4.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Visoko, June - September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was arrested in his apartment by some soldiers who wore HOS insignia and whom the witness had not known from before. He was taken to Enver Bašić's house in the village Srginje in whose cellar he spent no less than three months with three more Serbs from Visoko before they were transferred to another camp.

They asked him where the Serbs had their radio-station, whether he had any weapons, which party certain particular Serbs belonged to and the like. During the questioning, the witness and others were beaten with sticks all over their bodies and especially in the shin and thigh areas, on their backs and heads. The witness stated that while they were hitting him on the head with their sticks he thought that his head would burst and then fainted. They splashed water on him and then went on beating him.

Several times a day they would take the witness to another room where there were as many as 50 soldiers with sticks.

They were given food only once a day and their meals only consisted of a small slice of bread and some meat paste.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-22.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Zenica, the camp at the Music School, end 1992 - early 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: As soon as the witness was brought to this camp, a policeman hit him with his head in the nose area and as a result the witness's nose began to bleed.

The Music School is a three-storey building and it housed arrested Serbs on all three floors. The witness was incarcerated in the basement.

The witness could hear screams and moans coming from other rooms on all three floors both by day and at night.

As soon as the witness and other Serbs were arrested and brought to the camp, Faruk Abdić ordered that their passenger vehicles be taken away from them and that they sign certificates attesting to the voluntary handing over of those motor-cars to the Moslem Army.

During interrogations, they would most often hold the "Scorpion" barrel against the witness's temple and hit him with their riflebutts. They also kicked him and other detainees with their booted feet, especially in the kidney area.

At night masked soldiers would burst into the rooms and without saying a single word proceed to beat the detainees viciously until the latter fainted.

They were given some food only once a day, and on certain days they would not get anything at all. Their meals most often consisted of a small slice of bread and two or three spoonfuls of boiled beans. When he got out of the camp the witness weighed 46 kilos, and at the time when he was brought to this camp - 75 kilos.

At that time people at the camp claimed that nobody could get out of the Music School alive. However, one day appeared a representative of the International Red Cross, the detainees obtained Red Cross registration cards and were transferred to the Penitentiary in Zenica.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-22.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Rama, near Gornji Vakuf, in late April 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having been captured as a member of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the witness was taken to the former Police Station at Rama.

They introduced him there as a "Chetnik Duke", tied his hands and feet to a metal post in a room which they kept open, and called on passers-by to do whatever they pleased with him. Civilians entered the room, kicked and pounded the witness and an old woman who moved with the help of a stick said that she could not pound him with her fists and then used her stick to beat him on the head with it.

After that, some uniformed Croatian soldiers in black uniforms with the sign "U" on them - a sign of the Ustashi fascist formations in the Second World War - took him out of that room, tied him to a power-line pole and told him that he would be executed by a firing squad. Prior to that they had cropped his hair and made a capital letter "U" on his skull.

They lined up the firing squad but then one of them said: "This is a lenient sentence. He should be hanged." They then brought a bench, made him get on it, tied one end of the rope to a branch of a nearby tree and put the other end, i.e. the noose, around his neck.

A Croat who knew the witness passed by then and prevented them from hanging him. They made him get off the bench, blindfolded him and took him to another prison.

The witness was taken to the Police Station at Rama where he was tortured particularly viciously by Ambrozije Tovilo, who stabbed him with a knife into his left forearm. When blood gushed from the wound Tovilo licked it off the knife blade for the other Croatian soldiers to see and then they, too, started licking it off and smearing it all over their faces.

The group included two volunteers from Holland and Davor Glasnović from Canada.

Tovilo pulled out three toenails from the witness's right foot with his tongs. In addition to wounding the witness on his left forearm, he also cut him on the neck with a knife leaving a visible scar.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 234/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Grude, the camp beneath the garage for the repair of motor vehicles, early May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The interrogated witness, a POW, was brought from Livno to Grude and accommodated beneath this garage.

The witness was brought to the garage by some uniformed soldiers who had also brought other detainees there and was then beaten by them with their booted feet, sticks and riflebutts. When he fell, they made him get back on his feet again only to beat him some more until he fainted.

When he fainted, they threw him into a canal which they covered with boards and after some time they removed the planks, took him out and continued beating him.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record No. 234/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Ljubuški, the camp in the former prison building, in June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The interrogated witness told the investigating judge the following:

"...While I was staying at the camp in Ljubuško in the summer of 1992, one day they brought in an elderly civilian from Stolac, a Serb by nationality. They tortured him.

They told him they would let him go if he confessed that he had killed Croats and he swallowed the bait.

We watched it all. The old man said: "Yes, I did."

The Ustasha asked: "How many?"

"Thirteen."

The Ustasha could not believe his ears. They beat the witness some more.

He then said he had killed 18.

Then Nedjo Macić approached the witness and suddenly gouged his eye out with a knife. We heard a moan.

The Ustashi ordered: "Swallow it". The man had his own eye in his hand and was trembling all over.

I was watching it all and was dumbfounded.

The Ustashi took the eye and pushed it into the victim's mouth. He pushed and pushed until he forced him to swallow it...".

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Ljubuški, the camp in the former prison building from June to August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness spent around a month in this camp. During that time he was taken together with other detained Serbs to do forced labour in the most scorching heat.

When a detainee from his group ran away, the Croatian soldiers who looked after them battered them all most viciously. They did not give them anything to eat, nor any water at all for no less than 15 days.

During that time they gave them a spoonful of salt a day in order to make them even thirstier and thus cause unbearable suffering.

From this camp the witness was taken in stretchers to Stolac where he was exchanged.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-6.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The Kerestinec camp in Zagreb, February - June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When the witness was brought to this camp, he and the others were received by soldiers in Ustashi uniforms and with Ustashi insignia and they started beating the detainees right away. The detainees were battered every day and apart from that, the soldiers came up with ever new methods of torture and humiliation.

The detainees were among other also tortured in the following way: they would handcuff them and then tie the cuffs with a rope to a metal pipe under the ceiling. They would then tighten the rope and thus suspend the detainees. They would leave them hanging like that for an hour or two before bringing them back to the ground. Meanwhile, they kept beating them so that most of the inmates fainted.

The detainees were subjected to electric shocks which caused excruciating pain.

They put out cigarettes against the detainees' bodies and placed a spoonful of salt into their mouths, disallowing them later on to get any water.

When the detainees went to the toilet to relieve themselves they would interrupt them as soon as they began to urinate.

They forced the detainees to dance naked with the detained women and this lasted from 22.00 to 04.00 at night.

They made the detained women kneel down and after they brought the detained men to the room the women had to perform oral sex on them. Those women had also been raped and some of them told the witness that they had been raped by as many as 12 Croatian soldiers. The witness gave names of 8 women who were detained in this camp.

They also brought rotten eggs which they cracked and pushed into their mouths and those eggs gave off a terrible smell.

Among other things, they forced the detained Serbs to kiss the photograph of a World War II Ustashi commander Ante Pavelić, as well as to sing Ustashi songs.

The detainees slept on the floor, without any covers. It was only prior to International Red Cross visits that they would bring beds into the rooms with prisoners but would take them out after their departure.

As a result of battery, the witness sustained a multiple rib fracture which did not heal properly.

EVIDENCE: 292/95-7.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Poljare near Derventa, the camp at the elementary school "Vuk Karadžić", 16 - 18 June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Upon his arrival in this camp the witness found around 100 arrested Serbs there.

The warden of the Lipovac camp told him immediately that he would be executed at 8.00 hrs the following day. The witness took the information seriously because several days before a Stjepanović and a Marković had been shot down at that camp.

The following day the witness and three more men were taken to the yard and ordered to take off their clothes up to the waist, sit down against the fence and turn round facing it. Lipovac gave a group of soldiers the command to open fire, they fired a volley but the witness was not hit by any of their bullets. After that the witness was returned to the camp and taken immediately, together with other Serbs, to dig trenches in the village Vrhove.

The witness was taken to a mock execution once more.

EVIDENCE: Witness 584/94-35.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The Camp Rabić near Derventa, late April-May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Serbs detained at this camp were accommodated in the cellar where there was no light. They lay on the concrete floor, and as water had been splashed over it they had to lie in water. They had no bedlinen. They had to relieve themselves in the same room and as a result the whole room stank terribly.

The detaineed Serbs were taken to be interrogated and battered every day. They pulled out the toenails from both of the witness's feet with tongs. They also chopped off a part of his finger together with the nail on his right hand.

During the interrogation, the witness had to hold together three fingers on both of his hands on the table while they kept wrapping him on the knuckles with a knife and a stick. As a result they hurt his left-hand index finger.

During the first 13 days of their stay at this camp the detainees were not given anything to eat, save a hot pepper and a pinch of salt. They gave them a cup of water a day. After the first 13 days at the camp they gave between 120 and 130 Serbs detained there a total of 4 kilos of bread a day.

Nobody could fall asleep at night because Croatian soldiers kept bursting in every now and then and gave free rein to their desires by battering the arrested Serbs. One evening they took the witness out of the camp building, put a plastic bag on his head and brought him into a room where they proceeded to interrogate him and beat him.

One day Azra Kovačević cut the witness's left earlobe with garden scissors inflicting a lasting scar. When a soldier whom others called "Sandžaklija" saw the witness with such an ear, he said that they had damaged what would be yet one more of his "souvenirs"; namely, he wore 6 or 7 cut-off human ears tied to his belt. This "Sandžaklija" came to Č.P. and stabbed his knife into the man's left earlobe and chopped it off with a single cut.

The camp commander whom they called "Slovenac" told the witness that he had been declared a war criminal and sentenced to death.

Zdravko Čondrić came over to the witness immediately after this incident and told him that he could help the witness and save his life provided he gave an interview to the Croatian Television and Radio. To save his life, the witness agreed to say what they wanted him to and they filmed him.

After the filming was over the camp warden came to see the witness and pretending he knew nothing about Čondrić's arrival with the press he asked the witness who had interviewed him and why. He then took the witness out into the yard and made him stand in front of a line of soldiers whom he ordered to fire at the witness. Following his orders, the lined-up platoon did open fire but above the witness's head.

The witness was brought before Croatian soldiers six times and shown as a "Chetnik duke" and they battered him with their feet and fists.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 584/94-18 and relevant medical documents (D-4).

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Derventa, the camp in the former JNA Army Club, mid-June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: As soon as the witness was brought to this camp on 9 June the Croatian soldiers gave him a handful of salt which he had to swallow and then took him to another room where he found another 25 arrested Serbs. They ordered him not to speak to them.

During the night they brought some more Serbs into this room so that there were a total of 60 of them there. The rooms were only 4 m by 4 m large so that they had to remain standing for there wasn't enough space for them to sit or lie down.

At 10.00 hrs the following day two soldiers in HVO uniforms took the witness to the corridor and ordered him to put his hands behind his neck and bow his head. One of them mounted him and ordered him to crawl on all fours. Thus, the witness had to make several circles giving this soldier a piggyback.

They ordered him after that to stand against the wall and started beating him all over his body with sticks, fists, feet and rifle butts.

They kept beating him until he eventually fainted. Then they splashed some water on him.

As a result of the inflicted wounds, he was covered in blood, swollen up and bruised all over. After this they made him drink urine from the toilet bowl.

He stayed at the Army Club 8 days. They beat him twice every day, usually in the morning at 10.00 hrs and around 23.00 hrs in the evening.

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record filed with the Committee under No. 584/94-35.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Derventa, the camp in the former JNA Army Club, 26 April 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When they conquered the Čardak community on the outskirts of Derventa, the members of the Croatian and Moslem unit from Derventa and the 108th Rijeka HVO Brigade, as well as the "Sandžaklija" units, committed mass killings and slaughters against persons belonging to the Serb nationality.

On that occasion 33 more persons were arrested together with the witness.

They started right away to beat them viciously, and then tied them up and took them to the JNA Club with their hands behind their necks. At the Club they started beating them and then ordered them to take off everything and line up against the wall. They made them swallow a handful of salt each and eat all Yugoslav money they had and took away their foreign currency.

They then started kicking them brutally with their booted feet. They also battered them with their rifle butts, metal sticks 50 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, with cables and nightsticks.

They kept beating them until they all fell on the floor. There was a lot of broken glass strewn on the floor and they made them crawl or kneel down on it.

In addition, they also had a piece of rope with a knot at one of its ends; they would force the detainees to take the knot into their mouth and to move around on all fours like dogs. They would then suddenly pull the rope by the other end and thus knocked out many of the detainees' teeth.

The floor in the room where they were kept was covered in blood and Azra and other Croatian soldiers forced them to lick it off.

All this lasted from 13.00 hrs when they brought them to this camp until 22.00 hrs in the evening. They then took the interrogated witness, who was naked, to a solitary confinement cell which was 1 m by 1 m large. They splashed some water on him and it was there that he spent the rest of the night.

The following morning they forced the witness and the other people from Čardak, whom they had locked up in other rooms, to put on military uniforms, even though they had all been arrested as civilians and in their homes, and took photographs. After this, they were transferred to another camp.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-18.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The camp at the Retarded Children's Home at Filip Jakov near Zadar, November 1991 - January 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 2 November 1992 a group of over 20 armed Croatian soldiers took the witness out of his house in the village where they had been keeping him in isolation, put him in a van and drove him to the police station at Biograd. Later on they also brought his wife and four children there. After a six hour delay they took them all to Filip Jakov and put them up in the Retarded Children's Home.

There was only one wooden bed in the room where they were accommodated, a chair, a privy and a washbasin. They gave two blankets to each one of them. They had to sleep in pairs on the bed and four of them slept on the floor. They were given some food every day and their meal consisted of a slice of bread, two potatoes and sometimes a slice of salami which was given to them stealthily by a nurse in white uniform. They kept all six of them in that room for three months. After that, they gave the children a separate room. They did not let them go out anywhere during the first three months, not even for walks in the compound which was for that matter fenced around with wire.

When they eventually let them take a walk three months later they did not permit them to talk to anyone. The witness noticed that in addition to retarded patients, several arrested Serb families had also been accommodated in that Home. They were under constant surveillance.

The witness holds that they were keeping them there in order to make them go crazy.

Nine months later they were transferred to a camp at the Elektroprivreda Rest Home where the witness stayed with his family until January 1993 when the Croatian Police handed them over to the Serb authorities at Rovanjski.

Upon his arrest the witness weighed 80 kilos and when he was released - 50 kilos. His wife and children have come out seriously traumatized.

EVIDENCE: 236/95-13.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Brod (Bosanski Brod), the camp at the warehouse of the "Beograd" Department Store in the community Tulek, from 24 June - 6 October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When the witness was brought to this camp, there were only several arrested Serbs from Brod there but their number grew in the course of the following few days especially after the arrival of the Serbs from Derventa and Odžak.

Croatian soldiers came to this camp both by day and at night to batter viciously all detained Serbs.

The detained Serbs were taken out of the camp every day to dig trenches in the nearby villages along the frontline as well as to remove roofs from Serb houses and take out furniture and other things from them.

Meanwhile the Croatian soldiers who guarded the Serbs beat them up mercilessly and threatened to send their corpses via the Sava River to Serbia.

While the detainees were digging trenches in the village Žeravac, they used them as a live shield for Croatian combat lines. They ordered the detainees to sing Ustashi songs. However, the Serb army did not open fire at them.

There were also women at this camp and they were raped by Croatian soldiers who had free access to it.

They also forced certain detained Serbs to rape the women and made the witness rape N.M.

EVIDENCE: 584/94-20.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Zadar and its environs from 25 May to 6 June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After they captured the witness, who was a soldier of the Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK), Croatian soldiers battered him on the very spot where they had captured him. They kept beating him until he fainted. When he came round, he found himself at the quarry at Bibinje where they subjected him to some more beating. He received around 50 blows on all parts of his body.

He was then taken to Sukošan near Zadar and accommodated in a deserted house with bars on its windows. He was locked up in a room which had been adapted to serve as a cell and was severely beaten up once again until he fainted. At night he overheard some Croatian soldiers saying to each other that they should not have beaten him so hard for they would now be unable to interrogate him. A physician came to the cell and gave him a shot. A woman journalist representing Radio Zadar also visited the witness and put pressure on him to make a statement whose contents she told him.

The following day they took the witness to the place where they had captured him and then again back to Sukošan but this time they locked him up in another house. He overheard the Croatian soldiers making arrangements for his liquidation. After that the Croatian Military Police took him the barracks "Marko Orešković" in Zadar. The witness was beaten by at least 50 soldiers and policemen as he passed from the entrance to the barracks compound to the first floor. They brought him to a room on the first floor where there was no light at all. They beat him every day there, usually by dealing him karate blows and most often when he went out to relieve himself. They once forced him to take urine out of a clogged toilet bowl with a tin and drink it.

He was exchanged on 6 June 1992 at Žitnić. He had a large number of injuries and the TV crews filmed them.

EVIDENCE: Witness 236/95-23.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: Slavonski Brod, the camp at the restaurant "Kod Bardaka" from 1992 to 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The cellar of this restaurant was used as a camp for the Serbs from Slavonski Brod and its environs. There were at times as many as 80 Serbs detained there. They called this camp a torture house for the Serbs.

They tortured the Serb detainees at this camp among other also by sprinkling salt acid all over their bodies, thus causing the decomposition of their tissues and excruciating pain.

They also applied salt acid on the body of a Vlada Milić from Slavonski Brod whose leg had to be amputated after that and who died as a result.

EVIDENCE: 359/95-1 and 359/95-2.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of detainees - POWs

PLACE AND TIME: The camp at Čelebići near Konjic, June - August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 15 June 1992 members of Moslem armed formations locked up the witness together with other Serbs from the village Brdjani near Konjic, in the Čelebići camp.

As soon as the witness and other Serbs arrived the guards shot above their heads from automatic rifles in order to scare them and then put up the witness and six more detainees into a concrete manhole around 4 meters deep and 1 meter in diameter which they closed and tied the metal lid with a wire. The detainees spent 20 hours in that manhole. When they took the detainees out of the manhole they were half dead for lack of oxygene.

The detainees at this camp were starving and thirsty and the witness had no stool for 34 days. Upon his arrival at the camp he weighed 100 kilos and later on only 70 kilos.

EVIDENCE: 178/94-3.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Kuline near Derventa, April 30, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Vasilije Patković, f. Simo, born on December 20, 1922, in the village of Vinski, the municipality of Bosanski Brod, lived in the village of Kuline, was slaughtered at the doorstep of his house on April 30, 1992.

He was disabled, without the right leg, and was alone at home when the Croat unit came in and killed him.

The neighbors buried him in his yard. On September 10, 1993, the investigative judge of the Basic Court in Derventa, exhumated his body and Dr. Ljubomir Curkić performed the autopsy. Broken bones in the back of his head, sized 7x9 cm were also established.

EVIDENCE: Records of the hearing of late Patković's son, Luka, filed with the Committee under No. 438/94-4, as well as the victim's brother Risto Patković under No. 584/94-21, including the records on exhumation and autopsy of the Basic Court in Derventa Kri. 78/93.

PLACE AND TIME: Nova Gradiška, October 1991-January 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness had to lie at home because he had been wounded in both legs by a sniper.

Soldiers of the armed forces attacked the village Sinlije where the witness lived on October 10. The witness was lying in bed in his pyjamas when soldiers of the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) broke into his house, put a knife under his throat and pushed a rifle barrel in his mouth, threatening that they were going to kill him. Then they ordered him to get up and follow them.

When they gathered all the Serbs from the village, they started burning their houses.

Then they took them all to the Detention camp in Nova Gradiška.

The witness was placed in the army post in Gradiška, which had been turned into a detention camp. There were 20 more Serbs in the room where he was put.

They started beating the Serbs immediately, with rifles, sticks and hammers. Since they had taken the witness's crutches before, he did not have a support and fell down immediately.

The soldier often burst into the rooms to beat the detained Serbs.

The witness stayed in this detention camp until January 16, 1992.

EVIDENCE: Records on the witness hearing before the investigative judge of the Municipal Court in Prijepolje, filed with the Committee under No. 57/95.

PLACE AND TIME: Rajski Do, the municipality of Trnovo, November 12, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On November 12, on Rogoje, at the place called Kucin, soldiers of Muslim-Croat formations captured and killed the wounded soldier of the Army of the Republic of Srpska

His remains were found on September 18, 1993, in Rajski Do, near the Rajski Do Hotel, about 5 km away from the place where he had been captured and wounded.

Vitković's legs were firmly tied with a metal cable 6-7 meters long, about 6 mm thick. The other end of the cable was tied to a piece of wood about 80 cm long and 6-8 cm thick. His bones were mostly broken, especially the bones of his skull which was smashed, and parts of his clothing were torn. All this indicates that Pero Vitković's body was dragged along from the place where he had been captured in Kucin to Rajski Do, probably tied to a vehicle.

EVIDENCE: Records on the investigation, photo-documentation and other evidence filed with the Committee under No. 228/94.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Jablanica, the municipality of Lopare, August 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In the village of "Grabik", on August 19, the military ambulance E-2369 which carried one sick and one wounded soldier of the Republic of Srpska, who sustained wounds in a battle near Jablanica earlier that day, was attacked by the soldiers of the Muslim-Croat armed formations from Jablanica, from an ambush, with a light weapon ("Wasp"). The attacked ambulance went up in flames, and the following persons were burnt:

All were from the Army Post 5500.

EVIDENCE: Records on the investigation, photo-documentation and the drawing of the site, all in the documents 171/95-4.

PLACE AND TIME: The village of Bukvik, the municipality of Brčko, September 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During the attack against the village of Bukvik and other nearby Serb villages on September 14, 1992, soldiers of the Muslim-Croat armed formations occupied the bandage room in the house of Čedo and Manda Pajić where the persons who had been wounded during the attack were placed.

Mensur Djakić, as commander of the battalion, issued the order that the captured wounded civilians be shot immediately, which Ševket Ljubinović carried out. He killed the following persons that day:

The mother of Radić Živan, one of the killed, testifies:

"... My Živan was wounded in such a way that the bullet entered his mouth from the right and exited on the top of his head... As I was watching my son and the others, Muslim soldiers came in and one of them pointed his rifle in my back, telling the others to shoot the wounded. He said: "kill the wounded", and they, in my presence, fired a burst in Živan's chest and in the chest of the other two wounded men. They pushed me and then took me away to the detention camp with the others ...".

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Testimonies by 12 witnesses in the documents under 144/95-3, as well as 617/95-8, 617/95-9, 617/95-25, 617/95-26 and 617/95-33.

PLACE AND TIME: Zenica, the detention camp in KPD (penitentiary), June-October, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Although he had been severely wounded, the witness was kept in the "Crkvice" municipal hospital in Zenica for only 6 days. After that, he was transferred to the detention camp within the KPD in Zenica. Even though immobile, he was placed in the part of the camp with about 400 other arrested Serbs from the surroundings of Zenica. He lied on the floor without any spread or cover.

Every day, and especially at night, Muslims soldiers took out the arrested Serbs and the witness heard screams and calls for help. They came back beaten up, blue, swollen and bleeding.

They told him that they were beaten in a room which had 10-15 cm of water on the floor.

The witness stayed in this camp until the end of October 1992, when he was exchanged.

He was arrested as a civilian and no charges were brought against him.

EVIDENCE: Witness 234/95-8.

PLACE AND TIME: Split, "Firule" Hospital, the middle of 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After the torture in the Ljubuški prison, the witness lost consciousness and came to in the "Firule" hospital in Split.

When he came to again, nurse at the "Firule" hospital told him that he had ustashi blood inside now him and that all chetnik blood had been taken out.

One day, during his stay in this hospital, the witness was recognized by Jakov Pašalić who was in a wheelchair. Pašalić first hit him in the nose area and broke his nose bones, and then ordered him to take off the sheet with which he was covered. Having taken a stick from the policeman who guarded the witness, Pašalić beat the witness all over his body, and that on the soles of his feet. He was hitting so hard that the witness's body turned black all over. The beating lasted until the doctor on duty came and stopped it.

Since Pašalić threatened the witness that he was certainly going to kill him next time, the witness was transferred to the "Lora" prison, Split, 4-5 days later.

In the "Lora" prison, he was met by Tomo Vrgić, who said: "Here comes another chetnik" and kicked him in the jaw that had already been broken on three places. The jaw broke and the witness was returned to the hospital where it was fixed again and wires were placed without anesthesia. Immediately afterwards, he was taken back to "Lora".

EVIDENCE: 234/95-6.

PLACE AND TIME: Konjic, December 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having had a stroke, Slavko Mitrić from Konjic, 63 years old, moved and talked with difficulty.

Soldiers of the Muslim-Croat police beat him up for the first time on December 1, in the street, only because he was a Serb. A non-Serb acquaintance, a woman, who happened to pass by, saved him from further beatings.

The other time, on December 22, when he did not return home, his wife called Radio Konjic and asked for help. They replied via radio that her husband had been in the Headquarters of the Croat-Muslim Army and that he was going to be brought back home. Two hours later, when he did not return, she called the Headquarters and was informed that he had left for the hospital.

The wife went to the hospital, where she found her husband, who had been brought there five minutes before. He was covered with blood, had numerous wounds on his head, arms, legs, and other parts of the body.

After that, he ran a very high temperature and it was impossible to establish any contact with him.

He died a few months later.

EVIDENCE: 123/95.

PLACE AND TIME: Jablanica, detention camp in the Museum of the Revolution, November - March 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was captured as a severely wounded soldier of the Republic of Srpska.

He was taken to a detention camp for Serbs in the cellar of the museum in Jablanica, near the stadium. He was placed in a window-less room with, according to his assessment, about 60 other Serb prisoners. Camp Commander Džino Seno beat the witness and, threatening to take his intestines out with the knife, made a cut in his stomach.

Deputy Commander Nihad cut off the witness's left toes, one by one. Agan Nezir in person cut off his right toe.

The wintess's four toes were thus cut-off. Nihad then brought a Serbian fur hat with cockade as a Serb symbol, ordered the witness to put it on and then gave him a statement which he was forced to read before the Muslim TV cameras. Only after that, the witness was given a bandage to dress his bleeding feet.

The witness was beaten every day and was also forced to drink urine.

After forty days, he was registered by the International Red Cross. However, he did not dare complain to their delegation about the treatment in the prison. It was only with the help of the International Red Cross, whose doctor stated that he had lost a lot of blood and was festering, that he was transferred to the hospital in Jablanica where both his feet were amputated. 6 days later, he was returned to the camp in the museum. On one occasion, a soldier called Nihad came to the hospital. He put brandy into the infusion to which the witness was connected. He also forced the witness to take a handful of apaurine pills and drink brandy after that.

After his return from the hospital to the camp, the witness was again subjected to beating and molestation.

The witness gives a name of a captured Serb officer who, even though he was wounded in this camp, spent 53 days handcuffed to a strongbox.

Before the exchange, the prosthesis given to him by the Red Cross, with the help of which he was able to move, had been removed and taken away from him.

EVIDENCE: 392/95.

PLACE AND TIME: Zadar and its surroundings, January-May 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After they captured 15 Serb soldiers on January 23, 1993, at their position near Maslenica, the Croat soldiers killed three wounded Serbs on the spot, and took the others to prison, beating them incessantly on the way. Near Starigrad, one more prisoner died of the wounds inflicted on him.

The remaining Serb prisoners stayed in prisons until the exchange on May 25, 1993. They were subjected to beatings and other inhumane treatment by the prison authorities, but also by civilians, soldiers and women.

The following soldiers of the Republic of Srpska were imprisoned:

The following severely wounded captured Serb soldiers were killed on the spot:

Boško Ljubičić-Mijić was killed by a Croat soldier who fired a burst from automatic rifle in him, from a very close distance, because he tried to pass a water flask to his wounded friend Živko Badža.

A Croat soldier threw a bomb at Obrad Pešelj, who had been severely wounded and was unable to get out of the pool. He was left dead in the pool.

When Živko Badža, who was, like Pešelj, wounded in the bomb explosion asked the Croatian soldiers to give him some water, one of them asked "Would you like some whiskey?" and shot him from an automatic rifle, from close vicinity.

Before these killings, the witnesses heard the Croat soldiers reaching an agreement to kill the wounded soldiers because "they cannot walk".

Having taken them prisoner, the Croat soldiers took the remaining 12 Serb soldiers via Starigrad to Zadar. On the way, they beat them with all kinds of objects, stopped from time to time to let both the Croat soldiers and civilians whom they met on the way beat the prisoners, all the way to the Headquarters in Starigrad, where a row of Croat soldiers awaited them, to beat them some more. The prisoners Slobodan Jokić and Jovo Oluić were beaten up separately. Cigarettes were extinguished on Slobodan Jokić's face.

When the beaten-up prisoners were thrown back on the truck in the evening, the same truck by which they were brought from Starigrad to Zadar,

was not among them.

The witnesses saw that Jokić was called to get out of the truck by a Croat soldier who had been known to them, who beat him and molested him. Jokić was beaten by other Croat soldiers as well. He died of the wounds inflicted on him. Jokić's corpse was exchanged by the Croats on May 23, 1993.

The beaten up prisoners from Starigrad were taken by Croat soldiers to Ražanac by boat and as they disembarked, they were ordered to stand along the wall of a building, with their hands up. As they were standing in that positions, local residents were also allowed to beat them. After the beating, they were taken to Zadar by truck in which cattle had been transported and the floor was covered with excrements. In the part of Zadar called Voštarnica, the prisoners were lined-up again and civilians were allowed to beat them. As a result of the beatings, most of the prisoners fainted.

They were, then, taken to the "Marko Orešković" army post, where they were handcuffed in pairs and kept without food and water for two days. The soldiers, guards and other persons beat them in a separate room during that time.

Two days later, they were taken to the District Court in Zadar. On the way to the prison, the policemen beat them with sticks. They were placed in several cells and beaten regularly, every day. They were taken out at night, ordered to kneel down and put their hands up, and in that position, they were beaten by soldier boots, heavy-hiking boots, fists and objects. They were also beaten by women who entered the prison freely. The women pulled the prisoners by the hair and made them open their mouth, so that the women can spit inside. One woman lit a mustache of a soldier and forced him to swallow the burnt mustache hairs. They also made the prisoners beat each others and if, in their opinion, the prisoners did not do it strongly enough, then the guards beat them in addition. They forced the prisoners to sing Ustashi songs, and a song which they made-up about their friend Jokić whom they had killed on the way. They also forced the prisoners to lick dust, to eat excrements from the toilet, to kiss the soles of the guards' shoes. They urinated in the prisoners' mouth. They put a door handle in one prisoner's mouth, telling him that it was chicken meet. They put the prisoner's heads in garbage cans, holding the rifle at their heads as they did it.

Some prisoners were forced to satisfy the guards who put their sexual organs in the prisoners' mouth.

Once a month, the prisoners were visited by a doctor, but since he was accompanied by a guard, they did not dare complain. The doctor prescribed some medicines, which they never received.

They were entitled to ask for the medical check-up, but if they did it, the medical staff and the patients in the medical institution battered them.

Although they did not dare complain to the representatives of the Red Cross that they were being beaten, the Red Cross representatives could reach a respective conclusion based on the their appearance.

The prisoners were given very little food, consisting of a slice of bread and a piece of canned meat or a small cup of something that was supposed to look like a soup.

All the documentation related to the proceedings against the captured Serb soldiers had been taken away from them before they were exchanged on May 25, 1995, near Otočac. Most of them are now severely disabled as a consequence of the tortures.

EVIDENCE: Witnesses 236/95-15, 236/95-16, 236/95-17, 236/95-18, 236/95-19, 236/95-20, 101/95 and 291/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Taking of hostages and establishment of camps.

PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovar, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was captured at Šeovica on 4 May 1995 and transferred with a group of around 40 arrested persons to Bjelovar. He was first placed in a sports hall. Their names were noted down there and they were then sent to take a cold shower. After that the interrogations began.

The detainees were interrogated both in the civilian prison and in the investigating military prison. The witness stayed at both of those prisons.

At first the witness was in the civilian prison where he was placed in a very stuffy cell together with 8 or 9 other detainees. Whenever they were brought into the office for a hearing, they were beaten with truncheons, kicked and punched. The witness saw that P.S. was battered the hardest and as a result could hardly walk at all. The witness does not know anything about his present whereabouts.

On 13 May the witness was transferred to the investigating prison of the Military Court in Bjelovar. As soon as they brought the witness there, they lined the witness and others up against the wall and told them to place their foreheads and toes against the wall and put their hands behind their back. They spent an hour and a half in that position before they were summoned to the courtroom.

The witness was heard by the Military investigating judge Mihael Malčić. After having spent two days and two nights in that prison, the witness was told on 15 May that he was free to go.

However, prior to that they locked them up in a bathroom where they stayed for 24 hrs. After that they transferred them to Šeovica where they were placed under house arrest.

Members of the Croatian armed forces.

PLACE AND TIME: Travnik, the detention camp in the "Petar Mećava" army post, October - early November, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When he was brought to this camp, the witness was informed about his alleged statement that a radio-station, a sniper-rifle and 1,000 bullets had been found in his house, even though it was not true, and he was forced to sign that statement.

After several days of molestation, he had to put his signature on the required statement. In addition, he was forced to right a letter to his brother, who was in the Serb army, telling him that he was imprisoned, convicted because a radio-station, a sniper-rifle and 1,000 bullets were found with him, as well as to ask his brother to release 26 Muslim prisoners. For that reason, he was placed among Category I prisoners, although he had been arrested as a civilian.

During his stay in this camp in Travnik, the witness did not receive any written decision on his detention and was finally exchanged on 2 November 1992.

EVIDENCE: Records on the witness hearing No. 561/94-3.

PLACE AND TIME: Detention camp in Trnovo, in the kindergarten building, August - November, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In early August, 1992, when detention camps in Godinjske Bare and the village of Dejčići were disbanded, the prisoners were transferred to the newly-established camp in Trnovo, located in the kindergarten building.

The number of prisoners has not yet been established, but from the fact that about 50 Serbs a day were taken away from this camp to be exchanged, it is obvious that a large number of Serbs, mostly civilians, passed through this camp.

In this camp, the prisoners were molested and beaten every day.

In agreement with the guards, Muslim extremists came to the camp every day, to beat the prisoners, and the following took the lead: Mirza Belonja, Edin Hamzić, Izet Cibra, Senad Sačić, Ramiz Ramić, Enez Karačić, Safet Gagula and Džemail Imamović.

The imprisoned combatant of the Army of the Republic of Srpska, Dragan Lalović, from Kalinovik, was beaten especially hard.

At first, the prisoners were given one very poor meal a day, and sometimes not even that, but later, they were given two meals a day.

They slept on the floor, most frequently without any spread or cover.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Testimonies by the witnesses filed with the Committee under No. 228/94.

PLACE AND TIME: Suhopolje near Virovitica, November 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: ZNG (Croatian National Guard) soldiers detained the witness in early November and after the hearing, which lasted for 3-4 hours, let him go home. Ten days later, they detained him again, but on that occasion, they insulted him, called him a Serb nationalist and a chetnik. Two days later, he was taken to the village of Klisa and exchanged for some Croatian citizens.

The witness was thus forcibly expelled from Croatia and is now living as a refugee in Serbia.

EVIDENCE: Witness 400/95.

PLACE AND TIME: Visoko, July - October 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: At the end of July, 1992, soldiers of the Muslim army bearing the green beret signs, whose commander was Ibrahim Purić, surrounded the settlement of Zbilje, where some Serb families lived. All Serbs citizens - about 36 of them - were closed in the houses of Milinko Erzanović, Mladen Marić and Zdravko Mirić. Guards were placed in from of these houses - three guardsmen in front of each house.

On the occasion of the establishment of this camp,

was first beaten and then shot dead in front of his house.

The Serbs shut in these houses were not allowed to move, and were occasionally taken to the weekend-settlement in Varoško Polje where the men were beaten by clubs, an electric cable, rubber hoses, handles of agricultural appliances and riflebutts. They were beaten until they lost consciousness, for several hours.

The witness heard was once beaten incessantly from 12.30 to 18.00 hrs. During that time, 6 of his teeth were knocked out.

The Muslim soldiers made it impossible for the Serbs detained in these houses to get food and water, the supplies of which had been previously taken away from them.

Due to the lack of food and daily beatings, the witness's lost weight, which fell from 91 kg to 56 kg.

EVIDENCE: 292/95-19.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Devastation of civilian facilities not

mandated by military needs.

PLACE AND TIME: Vrbovljani near Okučani, early May 1995.

RIEF DESCRIPTION: Croatian military forces torched 30 Serb-owned houses in the village Vrbovljani near Okučani.

They also set fire to some Serb houses in the nearby villages Gredjani and Čovac.

They took away two cows, two swine and 18 piglets that had belonged to the woman witness. After her return from the camp, the witness only found her dead calf in her yard.

Members of the Croatian armed forces.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of civilian facilities without military reasons

PLACE AND TIME: Donji Miholjac, 1991-1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Around 40 Serb houses were mined and torn down in Donji Miholjac.

Among others, the houses of the following owners were torn down:

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: The testimony filed with the Committee under number 221/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of civilian facilities without military reasons

PLACE AND TIME: Ugljevik, March 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Ordered by Avdičević and Mešić, members of Moslem-Croat armed formations from Teočak fired on 20-23 March 1993 on several occasions a number of large caliber grenades on Ugljevik, a town located outside the war activity zone. As a result of the shelling, civilian Ruža Marković, born on 13 January 1955, was heavily injured, while four houses, owned by Blagoja Tomić, Dragan Marinković, Mihajlo Djurić and Radivoje Simikić, were considerably damaged.

EVIDENCE: The investigation record, the sketch of the site, testimonies and material damage estimates, all filed under number 174/95-1.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of civilian facilities without military reasons

PLACE AND TIME: Village of Mazgraja, commune of Ugljevik, August 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Ordered by Avdićević and Mešić, members of Moslem-Croat armed formations from Teočak fired on 22 August around 4 p.m. a number of large caliber grenades on Mazgraja, a village outside the war activity zone. As a result of this artillery attack, civilian Borislav Gajić, son of Radovan, born 1 July 1928 in Mazgraj, was heavily injured in the left shoulder blade.

EVIDENCE: The official record of medical examination and the official record of interviews with Stevo Gajić and Pero Todorović, a medical certificate on injuries and photo documentation, all filed under number 174/95-3.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of civilian facilities without military reasons

PLACE AND TIME: Stara Krivaja near Bjelovar, 1991-1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This purely Serb village contained 35 houses.

The newer ones built of more solid materials were mined, while the others were burnt.

The village was burnt by members of the Croat Guard. They first expelled from the village the entire population regardless of age, and then started burning the village and destroying the houses.

Before the village was burnt, Croats from Suho Polje had plundered the houses and took away the livestock.

The monument devoted to the Victims of Fascist Terror from World War Two, with the names of the Serbs killed by Ustashi in WW2, was also torn down.

The tombstones at the village cemetery, including the tombstone on the grave of the witness's son, were also destroyed.

At that time there was no fighting in the village.

Today there are no Serbs in the Krivaja village.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing record 430/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of civilian facilities without military reasons

PLACE AND TIME: Hodbina and other Serb villages near Mostar, April 1992 and early 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When the war broke out, Croat and Moslem soldiers started burning Serb houses in Hodbina and other Serb villages around Mostar.

10 Serb houses were burnt in Hodbina.

This was done for no military reasons.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: 440/94-41.

NOTE: Supplement to document VII-015.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, cultural and historical monuments

PLACE AND TIME: Žitomislić Monastery near Čapljina, late June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Orthodox monastery Žitomislić was torn down by anti-tank mines and the "UVEA" explosive. First the monastery church was demolished, then the monastery treasury plundered, and finally the monastery dormitory, built in 1963, burnt.

Kudra, Delić and Zegar drove to Žitomislić in a "TAM" vehicle with the inscription "Bregava-Čapljina".

The church was rebuilt in 1566 on the place of the old church.

On 26 June 1941 Croat Ustashi killed the monastery monks and threw them into the Vidonja pit.

EVIDENCE: Document 703/94 filed with the Committee.

NOTE: Supplement to document VIII-004.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, cultural and historical monuments

PLACE AND TIME: Village of Kućanci near Donji Miholjac.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The perpetrators tore down the Orthodox church in Kućanci, a village outside the war activity zone. The present Serbian Patriarch was born in Kućanci.

EVIDENCE: Document 221/95 filed with the Committee.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, cultural and historical monuments

PLACE AND TIME: Village of Mutnica near Zenica, late 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Orthodox cemetery in Mutnica was destroyed by members of the Moslem army.

All the tombstones were torn down and removed. The witness also saw them removing marble plates and taking them away in trucks.

EVIDENCE: 234/95-23.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing.

PLACE AND TIME: The village Brusnik near Pakrac, May 1995.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Although surrender had been agreed with the Croatian authorities, the Croatian armed forces shelled that village at around 16.30 hrs on 4 May.

After the surrender on 5 May, Croatian armed forces rounded up the entire Serb population. Then the Croatian soldiers singled out men and at around 02.30 hrs loaded them on some trucks and transported them to Pakrac and then to Slavonska Pozega where they placed them in the camp at the local sports hall.

There were a total of 108 villagers of Brusnik in the sports hall camp at Slavonska Pozega. They included 14 people aged over 60 and 2 young 17-year-old men.

They were all first photographed there and then asked to give their particulars, and then questioned one by one. During the interrogations they beat especially hard the younger ones.

A number of detainees were released on 6 May so that 54 detainees from that village remained in that camp in Slavonska Pozega after that. Some of them were later transferred to Bjelovar, others to Osijek as well as to some other camps. In mid-July 1995, 10 - 15 more persons from this village were held in Croatian prisons.

After that the released villagers were summoned again for interrogation at the Brusnik Culture Club.

Thus, the witness was heard at the Culture Club on 8 May and was beaten with a truncheon and kicked with booted feet. When on 10 May he was summoned to the Culture Club for the second time, he was transferred along with another 4 villagers to Tihomir Zorčić's house on the outskirts of Brusnik. They beat them with truncheons there, stabbed them with knives, forced them to lie in the Brusnik River for a whole hour. They forced the witness to carry piggy- back and on all fours anyone who mounted him, they forced him to neigh like a horse, bark like a dog and at the same time kicked him with their booted feet, while one of them placed his gun against his head and pulled the trigger.

He was released after that. On 22 May villagers of Bresnik were once again apprehended and taken to Milorad Nikolić's and Mile Mandić's houses where they proceeded to batter and maltreat them, forced them to lick off salt, tied a bell round their necks as if they were sheep and forced them to bleet like sheep do.

On 23 May the witness was beaten by the perpetrators who bastinadoed him with their truncheons, pushed a gun into his mouth, smashed eggs against his head, forced him to kiss the chess-board flag, took humiliating photos of him, i.e. they would force him to kneel down and some Croatian soldiers would place their feet on his shoulder and then force him to clean and kiss their boots. He found this particularly hard to bear when one of them, who weighed 100 kilos, forced him to lie down and then jumped on his abdomen.

As a result of all this, the witness abandoned his house and property and on 26 May he joined an UNPROFOR-organized convoy in order to cross over into the Republic of Srpska. The witness is currently living as a refugee.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

They also set fire to some Serb houses in the nearby

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, September 1994.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Witness Radisav Stanović, a pensioner, age 74 years, managed to obtain from the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo a decision issued by the Municipal Defense Secretariat under No. 261 dated 15 July 1994 whereby he was allowed to travel abroad, allegedly to visit his son whose residence is in New Zealand.

However, the authorization had been made conditional upon the donation to the Muslim authorities of his apartment at No. 60/3 Palmira Toljatija St. in Sarajevo, area 54 sq.ms. along with everything inside it.

At present, the witness is a refugee in Višegrad.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Record on the hearing of witness Radisav Stanović and other documents filed with the Committee under No. 440/94-23.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: The camp Čelebići near Konjic, May - July 1992 and the sports hall Musala at Konjic, August 1993.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 26 May 1992 the Muslims caught a large number of Serb men, women and children at the village Bradina, took the women and the children to the school building and held them there for three days. They took the men to detention camps.

After that the Moslems invited the Serbs at Podorašci allegedly for informative interviews and took 63 of them to the Čelebići camp. They took away from them all of their valuables without issuing any certificates, and incarcerated them in 6 manholes (there were as many as 18 men in one of them) where they were nearly suffocated for lack of oxygen. They moved them later to the hangar called "Šestica". They subjected the arrested Serbs to beatings, inflicted bodily harm including terminal wounds in a number of cases. They beat younger men especially hard on their genitals.

In August 1993 Muslims took 38 Serbs from the village Brdjani accusing them previously of constructing an airport for Serb planes and accommodated them in the Musala Sports Hall at Konjic where they subjected a number of them to beating to make them donate their blood.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Records on the hearing of witness No. 440/94-1.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Goražde - Trebeško brdo, June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 14 July 1992 Muslim units attacked the village Bučje near Goražde, collected the entire Serb population and took them out of the village. En route to Trebeško, they let several women and children go and put up the rest in a house at Trebeško Brdo.

The Muslim soldiers under the command of Ahmet Sejdić from Višegrad subjected Serb males to vicious torture there. At night they took them out in front of the building to pound them and kick them and hit them with their sticks and riflebutts all over their bodies.

They ordered them to lie on their stomachs and "eat" dust while beating them on their backs.

They inscribed the crescent and the star signs on their knees and the letters SDA (standing for the Democratic Action Party) on their backs.

The following died as a result of the injuries they had received:

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Records on the hearing of the above witness filed with the Committee under No. 440/94-9.

NOTE: Supplement to application I-199.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, 2 August 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness and his wife lived in their private home in Osijek at Eugena Savojskog Str.

On 2 August 1991 some members of the Croatian Army came to his house and ordered him to move out immediately saying that the house had been designated for them.

The witness was forced to abandon his home and flee Croatia.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: 584/94-21.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

TIME AND PLACE: Zadar, 2 May 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: As of March 1991 the Zadar Police blocked all exit points in Zadar in order to keep under control and abuse citizens of Serb nationality which they ill-treated by pointing their automatic rifles at them, by searching their homes, threatening them or by harassing them in other ways while the Croats were free to move around without any restraint.

A group of a large number of Zadar citizens violated on 2 May the property of those citizens of Zadar who were of Serb nationality their ultimate objective being to force that population to move out of Zadar.

All this began at around 10 hrs when several columns of vehicles arrived. There were 5 or 6 vehicles in each of the columns and they were driven by civilians with nylon stockings over their heads who were armed with automatic rifles. They got out of their vehicles to make threats at the top of their voices saying they would slaughter all Serbs and singing Ustashi songs.

Around 15.00 hrs at least ten "Liburnija" and other Zadar firms' buses arrived in Zadar from the surrounding villages. The buses were overcrowded with Croats, mostly young people aged between 18 and 25 armed with clubs and iron rods. They got off their buses near the railway station singing Ustashi songs and shouting threateningly that they would slaughter all Serbs unless they moved out. They also smashed up the shops and vehicles whose owners were Serbs or the firms whose head offices were in Serbia.

They were followed by children ages from 5 to 15 who took out goods from the Serb-owned shops or vehicles.

The children were followed by grownups carrying pails full of an inflammable liquid which they splashed all over the looted possessions from Serb homes and over their vehicles and torched them.

The mob comprised between 1,500 and 2,000 mainly young people from Zadar and the surrounding villages.

The fact that on that day the police had been ordered to withdraw from the town and that no policeman was in the street, confirms that this had been organized by the Croatian authorities.

On that occasion, more than 168 shops owned by Serbs were ransacked and demolished and a number of homes and apartments were set ablaze, as registered by the

police and by the Public Prosecutor in Zadar. This led to a massive exodus of Serb citizens from Zadar.

The ransacked and looted shops and homes also include the following:

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Evidence contained in the documents filed with the Committee under Nos. 220/94-2, 82/94, 236/95-6, 236/95-7, 236/95-11, 236/95-12, 157/94 and 101/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Visoko, April - June 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On Orthodox Easter Muslim soldiers drove Serbs out of 7 houses in Visoko, including the Manojlović family (8 members 5 of which were children age under 12 years) and the Molijević family (with 2 children age under 10). They moved Muslems in those homes.

On 20 June the Muslim Army launched a strong attack on the Serb homes at Visoko. At the call of the Muslim soldiers, around 150 Serb men and around 250 Serb women and children came out of their homes to be immediately searched by the Muslims. All their valuables were taken away from them including jewelry, watches, rings, and the like. The women and children were locked up in the classrooms of the school at Visoko and in the Culture Club, and the men in the barracks near the bus station.

There were 150 men put up in a single room in the barracks area 8 by 9 ms so that they did not have enough space even to lie down.

The detainees were subjected to different kinds of torture on a daily basis. With veils over their faces, Muslim soldiers beat them in the course of alleged interrogations. Thus they knocked out several of the witness's teeth, broke several of his ribs and inflicted a number of wounds in his neck area.

As a result of torture and exhaustion three men died including

They tortured the detainees in particular by starving them. The detained Serbs were not given anything to eat for several days, and only very small food rations after that followed by several more days without any food at all. In 2 or 3 months they lost around half of their weight. The witness's weight dropped from 70 kgs to 38 kgs so that he even had difficulties moving around.

Muslim soldiers took particular pleasure in throwing food to their dogs and watching the detained and famished Serbs vie for it with the dogs.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Bibinje, near Zadar, 2 May 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On 2 May a large number of citizens of Zadar and Bibinje destroyed in an organized manner the property owned by Serb citizens near Zadar with the aim to force that population to move out of Bibinje.

On that occasion 37 Serb houses and a number of Serb shops were ransacked and demolished at Bibinje.

All the shops and houses had previously been looted. This led to a massive exodus of Serbs from Zadar and its surroundings.

The ransacked and looted houses at Bibinje included, among other, those owned by:

EVIDENCE: Evidence filed with the Committee under No.220/94-2 & 82/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Novi Travnik, 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness lived with his family in Novi Travnik where he had spent his entire period of service and was a pensioner when the civil war broke out.

When the war broke out in Croatia, there was a systematic pressure put on the Serbs living in Novi Travnik; their apartments and garages were broken into, their cars stolen and Muslims and Croats knocked at their doors and said: "You are Chetniks and you have to move out."

They threw messages through the witness's window in which the witness was told to move out. They also wrote threatening graffiti on the walls of the buildings and on the doors of Serb apartments.

When the war broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina between the Muslims and the Croats, the number of Muslim refugees in Novi Travnik rose steeply and this marked the beginning of a number of public drives involving the vandalization and looting of Serb apartments, as well as the killing of Serbs. This was done by armed and uniformed Muslims.

It was in this manner that

was killed; they stabbed him to death with their knives after having broken into his apartment. Their second victim was a young man whose surname is

who was riddled with bullets when he opened the door of his apartment. A sniper's bullet also killed

who was standing on the terrace of his apartment.

Dj. M.'s teen-age daughters were raped in their home before the eyes of their parents. Having seen this, Dj. M. hanged himself in the attic of the building where he had been living.

All this made Serbs leave Novi Travnik. Many did not manage to get out, were intercepted en route and forced to hand over all their possessions. They therefore had to hide in cellars and in garages.

The witness is aware that a Dj. D. was molested particularly hard; they held him by the hair and moved a knife blade against his throat while they were searching his apartment. In doing this, they also cut the arm-chairs, smashed the TV set and made a mess of his apartment. He fell ill as a result and had to be admitted for treatment at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: 472/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Cabun near Virovitica, 1991 - 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness and his wife and son lived in the place of the witness's birth at Cabun.

In August 1991, when the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was already in power in Croatia, the witness received a message saying that his son would soon be slaughtered, and that he would be made to watch it in person. After this message, in fear for his only son's life, the witness and his wife transferred him to Hungary.

Following this message, the witness was subjected to various forms of harassment. Police patrols often came to the witness's house looking for weapons. Policemen claimed that the witness's son had joined the Chetniks and demanded that the witness hand over his weapons. As the witness's son only had a hunting rifle, the witness handed it over to them. Even after that, however, they came to his apartment again looking for other weapons which the witness did not have. During their calls on the witness the policemen smashed up his things and furniture.

At 23.50 hrs. on 2 February 1992 somebody knocked at the witness's door; the witness was asleep with his wife. Scared to death as they were, the witness and his wife gave no reply and two persons burst into their apartment. Each one of them had a nylon stocking and a cap on his head and face, wore a military uniform, was armed with a "Kalashnikov" rifle and equipped with a walkie-talkie. They started beating viciously and molesting the witness and his wife right away and went on for a whole hour. When at one point the cap fell off an assailant's head, the witness recognized Anica Vazen who lived in the very same village.

The two assailants abandoned the witness's apartment after a third person, who was in the garden, told them through the loudspeaker "They have had enough".

After that the witness and his wife did not dare sleep in their house but went into hiding at a friend's place. Somebody soon removed the entrance door to their house and after that many people repeatedly entered their house and took away their possessions.

As the witness realized that he could no longer live in his native village, he fled with his wife to Serbia and later on managed to sell his house to a Croat for DEM 27,000 even though the amount was far below the actual price of his new house which was worth at least DEM 120,000.

As a result of similar pressures, other Serbs from that village have moved out as well.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: 397/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, mid-1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness had been living in Osijek for over 30 years and had her own house there.

In August 1991 she fled with her family to Serbia because she and her family had felt threatened for being Serbs. They currently have refugee status.

The witness's grandson, age 10 years, who was the only Serb in his street, was often beaten by Croat children. He would come home in torn clothes, his head smashed and his nose bleeding.

They received an increasing number of anonymous telephone calls. They were told that they should report to the Chetnik headquarters as chetniks, they mentioned the names of their grandchildren and threatened their children.

The witness's daughter was told threateningly at her place of work by the warehouseman, who had pointed his gun at her breast, that he would shoot her down for being a Serb. When she complained about it to her superior, the superior said that the warehouseman was only joking.

The witness's son-in-law, a Croat who worked at the "Belje" Combine, saw at his enterprise a list of Serbs who were to be killed. The list also included the names of his wife and children. They also put pressure on him to divorce his wife and marry a Croat. He, therefore, decided to flee Croatia with his family.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Record from the hearing of witness by the investigative judge of the District Court of Novi Sad filed with the Committee under No. 694/94.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, 1990-1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: After HDZ came to power in Croatia in 1990 the witness started receiving anonymous telephone calls from people who demanded that he abandon his home. Unknown persons started coming to his home demanding from him to move out with his family to Serbia. Then some friends of his came, too, and told him to leave Osijek because he is a Serb.

In November 1990 on his way back from work, the witness was shot at from a gun. After the incident, the police came to conduct an investigation, drew up a report but failed to do anything else.

In early February 1991 somebody broke all the windows on the witness's house overlooking the street and left a letter in his mailbox demanding that he leave the town. After that a grenade was thrown on the witness's house and the fence was torn down. The witness reported all this to the police but to no avail.

In the course of April 1991 ZNG members in uniforms visited him at his place a number of times, beat him up, made a mess of his apartment and caused a lot of damage. They told him that he would have to leave his house immediately and that he would not be given any more time to do it.

At that time "Slobodni Tjednik" featured accusations charging the witness with being a chetnik and a terrorist. A grenade was then thrown on his shop causing considerable damage. Once again the police failed to take any action.

On 23 May 1991 the witness, who was on his way to his place of work, was beaten up by five HDZ members. He received injuries in his spine, hands and feet, was stabbed with a knife as well and was taken to hospital. The case was reported to the police.

During his hospitalization, the witness was not allowed to receive any visitors and was declined appropriate medical assistance.

The witness was provoked, spat at and slapped on the face by Croats at this hospital. He asked the doctors to move him to another room but they refused to meet his request.

After two days in hospital and having been informed that they would poison him there, he was secretly transferred by some friends to the hospital in Sombor.

Immediately after that the witness's house was mined again and was considerably damaged by the blast.

In early June 1991 all the witness's possessions from his house and shop were looted.

During his hospitalization the witness received notice from his enterprise that he was dismissed for not having come to work for 5 successive days. The witness suspects that he was persecuted in this manner because he was a high-ranking official of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in Osijek which was operating as a legal party.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records and other documents filed with the Committee under No. 167/95.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Crikvenica, end November 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness lived in Crikvenica in his own fully furnished apartment area 60 sq.ms. and had a new motor-car make "Golf".

At around 21.30 hrs on 28 November two members of the Ministry of the Interior of Croatia entered the apartment of the witness, who was born in Bosnia, and ordered him to prepare himself to be transported to Bosnia the following day. He was only allowed to pack one piece of luggage.

The following morning they came to pick him up by a police car; there was already a Serb from Novi Vinodolski in that car. They took them both to the Police Station at Crikvenica. After 15 hours spent in that Station, they drove them by a police van, together with one more Serb, to Rijeka and made them embark a ship which was waiting for them and, as far as the witness remembers, was called "Liburnija". There were around 700 people on that ship, most of which were Serbs. There were a small number of Muslims as well.

The ship, escorted by the Military Police, set off at around 16.00 hrs and transported them to Split where they arrived at 7.00 hrs the following morning.

They made them get on six articulated local city transport buses and drove them to Duvno (Tomislavgrad). They divided them up into two groups and one group went in the direction of Mostar and the second toward Posušje.

They made the witness get off in Zenica. This is how the witness was left without his apartment and all his possessions. He currently lives as a refugee in Serbia.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records filed with the Commiteee under No. 532/94-5.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Vinkovci, 1991.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness lived as a pensioner in Vinkovci.

In May and June 1991 he came under pressure to move out of his apartment and go to Serbia. They called him by phone every day and asked: "You, Serb, are you still here? When will you move out of that apartment? When will you go to Serbia?" The witness had to switch off his phone at night in fear of such threats.

When he went downtown, he was stopped by some people who made threats and hurled most vicious insults at him.

In May 1991 he saw a police vehicle coming; the vehicle stopped by his side. Several policemen got out of the vehicle. The police officers asked him to show them the way to the hospital and as he proceeded to explain he received a terrible blow on the head. He came round on his way to hospital where they sewed together his head wound. His left eye had been injured as well.

As they started threating the witness for being a Serb at that hospital and thus scared him, the witness ran away. He remained in hiding until mid-July when a friend of his, a Croat, told him that something bad was in store for him and that he had better leave for Serbia straight away.

After the witness escaped to Serbia, police officers in Vinkovci caught his son and took him to the local neighborhood community in Vinkovci where they beat him up. He sustained serious bodily harm.

The witness ran away from Vinkovci in a summer suit leaving all his possessions behind. After the witness's flight, some Croats moved into his apartment and into the house of the witness's son.

INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:

EVIDENCE: Witness hearing records filed with the Committee under Nos. 577/94 and 17/93.

DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing

PLACE AND TIME: Grubišno Polje, 1990 - 1992.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: When he came back to his native village in 1990 after having done his military service, the witness was in a situation to establish that all his former Croat friends with which he had been on very good terms and with which he had often mixed, had become police reservists. Whenever he went out now, they would ask him to produce his I.D. every 100-200 meters.

When HDZ took over in March 1990, a shell was thrown on the house of the witness and his father which destroyed its facade. Somebody wrote the graffiti "HDZ: death to Serbs" on the wall of the Orthodox church at Veliki Grdjevac, and "March forward across the Drina, you thieves and Judases" on the facade of the witness's house.

In June 1991 the witness wrote "Krajina" on the postage stamp with the chess-board flag on it which he was sending by mail to Belgrade. For that reason, he was subsequently summoned to the Police, interrogated and ill-treated.

In the night of 13 August 1991 the witness's house came under the second grenade attack. After that the witness and his parents abandoned this family house area 400 sq.ms. which was subsequently looted and demolished.

In January and February 1992, about 10 Serb houses near the witness's house were mined in this village. Having managed to escape, the witness and his father learnt that somebody had drawn and put up in public places at Grubišno Polje the lists of the names of those who are chetniks, as well as that the witness's father had been sentenced to death by firing squad and the witness to 16 years in prison.