Abuse in Kalinovik School
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Dusan Mandic said that he was a guard in the school in 1992 and that one day female prisoners told him to come to the classroom where prisoners were held.
“Seid Keso was beaten, and Edin Bico and a man from Gacko were there. Keso was in terrible state. Women were pouring water on him and he was blue. Bico asked for sugar, he had diabetes and I went to get it”, said Mandic.
The witness said that Keso died the same day.
“I put a hand on his heart, on his pulse, there were no signs of life… The women told me that paramilitary forces came and killed Keso,” said Mandic.
Marinko Bjelica, Zoran Bjelica and Novica Tripkovic are charged with abusing prisoners Suad Hasanbegovic, Edin Bico, Seid Keso and Hasim Hatic in the Miladin Radojevic School. As a result of the abuse, Keso died and the three other men were killed a day later.
Mandic said that he went home after his shift, and on the next day he didn’t see Keso, Bico or anyone else in the school. He added the women told him someone killed them.
“I later saw blood from the door, in the place where they were… I saw bullet holes in the wall,” said Mandic.
The trial resumes on June 18.
