Witness Told By Victim that Defendant Raped Her

At the trial for crimes committed in Jablanica, the protected witness for the prosecution said that a girl, a relative of the witness, had told her that a man named “Nihad” raped her.

The witness, code-named ‘K’, recalled that protected witnesses code-named ‘D’ and ‘H’, were taken from the Battle of Neretva museum and then raped on the first night that Croats were brought in from the village of Doljani, on July 28, 1993.

According to the indictment, Nihad Bojadzic, former deputy commander of the Zulfikar detachment of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, raped a prisoner. The indictment specifies that the man who came to the museum with the defendant raped another prisoner.

According to the witness, civilians were put into the “glass room”, and guard who called out witnesses D and H from the door, was wearing the military uniform, had black hair and was short. She said that witness D told her that the man’s name was ‘Omer’ and that later he jumped from the bridge into the river Neretva.

The witness K said that D, when she returned, was terrified and crying.

“I covered her with a blanker and told her: ‘We cannot talk till the morning’,” she recalled.

A day later, she added, the victim told her everything, and said that “Nihad” raped her.

K said that D later showed her the man, who was “short, blond and chubby”.

The witness said she did not know how D had found out his name was Nihad.

She said that D also told her that he raped witness H as well.

The trial will resume on October 10, with the testimony from another protected witness for the prosecution.