Hit with a Metal Stick and Heels
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Witness Branislav Nadic said that he watched members of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, including a female soldier, beating detainee Jovo Dujic at “Polet” stadium in Bosanski Brod.
“The man was moaning due to the beating. He was naked down to his waist. He was a big guy. (…) They knocked him down at the doorstep. In the meantime, a woman, holding a metal stick, came and began hitting him with the stick and jumping on his chest with heels on her feet,” the witness said.
Nadic said that Dujic had scars made by the heels, as well as bruises caused by the beating. “When that was over, the men, who were with me, said that her name was Indira,” Nadic said, adding that he did not know what happened to Dujic and pointing out that, after having been exchanged, he heard from local residents that he went missing.
When asked by the Prosecution if he could recognise that woman in the courtroom, the witness pointed to the indictee.
Indira Kameric, former member of the 101stBosanski Brod Brigade of HVO, is charged with having participated in the torture of Serb and Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war, who were held in the police building and at “Polet” stadium, during 1992.
The indictment alleges that Kameric, who was accompanied by other HVO members, participated in the abuse of detainee Jovo Dujic by beating him with a metal stick and stepping and jumping on his body, while wearing high heels.
When asked by the Defence if he remembered whether another female person, besides Indira, participated in the event involving Dujic, witness Nadic said that he did not remember.
The Defence presented the witness with his statements given to police in Brod and the State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, in 2006 and 2008 in which he did not mention the jumping on Dujic while wearing high heels.
The witness said that, “as he spoke about that”, he remembered additional details.
The trial is due to continue on May 8.
