Local Justice Hadzic and Hodzic: A Couple of Slaps
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Marko Cvjetinovic said that indictee Galib Hadzic slapped him in his face a couple of times while examining him.
He said that he was captured during an attack by Muslim and Croat units on villages in the Bukvik area on September 14, 1992 and that he was then transferred to Gornji Rahic.
He said that he was taken to a garage, along with between 20 and 25 other prisoners, who told him that they too were mistreated while being examined.
According to the charges, Hadzic and Hodzic participated in the torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war from the Bukvik area, Brcko District during 1992 and 1993.
It is alleged that Hadzic was inspector with the Public Safety Station in Brcko, while Hodzic was a military policeman with the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, who worked as a detention camp security guard at that time.
Witness Bozo Simic said that, after having been captured on September 14, he was taken to Ulice village, where a Braco slapped him. After that he was transported to Gornji Rahic. As he said, he was beaten during the entire trip to Gornji Rahic.
They put us into that nursery garden. They took two men, who were brought to the garden with me, one after the other to another room for examination. We could hear them hitting the men. When they came back, I noticed that they had bruises on their faces, Simic said.
He told the Court that nobody examined or hit him, but the two other men told him that they had been examined by indictee Hadzic.
After having been held in the nursery garden garage for a month, I was transferred to the school building, where a Serb prisoner told me that he had been hit by indictee Nijaz Hodzic, Simic said.
The trial is due to continue on December 12.
M.A.
