Gazdic: No Information about Indictee
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Mersada Bektovic told the Court that she testified in another case before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2010, but nobody asked her anything about indictee Gazdic.
Nobody asked me anything about Jasko Gazdic. I have never heard anything about him, witness Bektovic said.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Gazdic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having treated Bosniak females, who were unlawfully held in Partizan sports hall in Foca, in an inhumane manner from the beginning of April 1992 to the end of March 1993.
The indictment alleges that, in June 1992 Gazdic took 12-year old witness A from Partizan sports hall to an apartment, ordered her to take a bath, punched her in her head with his fist, which made the injured party partially lose consciousness, and raped her.
According to the charges, Gazdic held a young female in conditions of sexual slavery and raped other females, who had been taken away, while threatening them with guns, as well as enabling other individuals to rape them.
When asked by Dusko Tomic, Defence attorney of indictee Gazdic, whether she knew anything about the taking away of protected witness Rs daughter, Bektovic said that she knew that Rs daughter was taken away, but she did not know who did it.
The girl was brought back by Nedjo Samardzic. Thats what the girl said, witness Bektovic said.
In December 2006 the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Nedjo Samardzic to 24 years in prison for crimes committed in Foca municipality in 1992 and 1993.
Among other things, Samardzic was found guilty of committing multiple rapes of Bosniak women at several locations, including in the ill-famed Karaman house, where several women were detained. Minor persons, the youngest of whom was 12 years old, were among his victims.
Protected witness D, who had previously been granted identity protection measures, testified at a part of the session that was closed to public.
According to the official schedule of hearings to be held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the next hearing in this case is due to be held on August 29.
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