Could not Stand up for Three Days Due to Beating

As the trial for crimes on Mount Igman, Hadzici municipality, continues, a Prosecution witness says that Nedzad Hodzic beat him with a mine-thrower cleaning rod.

Witness Predrag Krstic said that he was taken to Mount Igman in late February 1993 and detained in a fallout shelter of a hotel. As he said, two days later he met indictee Nedzad Hodzic.

“He came with a group of people. He held a table leg and beat us with it. He told us to turn around and raise our hands. He then beat each one of us with that leg. I could not stand up for three days after that, because he broke four of my ribs,” Krstic said.

He said that Hodzic beat him with a mine-thrower cleaning rod later on, when he came across some detainees, who were unloading a truck.

“When the rod bent, he told me to straighten it,” Krstic said.

The witness recalled his meeting with Hodzic, who came to the fallout shelter with a group of people, including a woman named Sabina.

“He hit me several times. After that Sabina did horrible things to me,” Krstic said.

He described the indictee as a blonde short man with “a scar below or above his eye”.

Nedzad Hodzic and Dzevad Salcin, also known as Struja, former members of “Zulfikar” Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, are on trial for crimes committed on Igman in 1993.

Salcin is charged with having cut Dragan Vukovic’s ear off. However, responding to a question by Prosecutor Vladimir Simovic, Krstic said that he heard that “Nedzad did it”.
 
The witness said that he remembered Jadranko Glavas, who was brought to Igman, but he was there only for two or three nights. He said that he had not seen him since.   

“Jadranko told me that Hodzic threatened him with a knife while they were driving from Silos to Igman, and told him that he would see his body fat on a knife blade,” Krstic said.

The trial is due to continue on July 3.