Bosnian Serb Police Tortured Prisoner in Bileca
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The protected prosecution witness codenamed A-2 told the Sarajevo court on Tuesday that he was arrested in June 1992 and taken to the police station in Bileca, where he saw 16 people who were covered in blood and with bruises.
He said that defendant Nedjeljko Kuljic then interrogated him about weapons.
He said: Take off your clothes, where is your weapon? the witness recalled.
A-2 said that he tried to run away in his underwear but Kuljic and another man chased him, kicked him, and brought him back.
After four or five days in the police station, the witness said that he was transferred to the student dormitory in Bileca, where Kuljic tortured him by giving him electric shocks.
He had some phone and a peg and he would attach that between my fingers, under my armpits or on my ears. Once they attached terminals to my genitals… I fell, and Nedji [Kuljic] would hit me, he was kicking me in the back, the witness said.
He added that a larger electric-shock machine was later built which was also used to torture him.
Speaking about the injuries he sustained during his five months in detention, A-2 said that Kuljic broke 12 of his teeth, and that he hit him with a baton, with his fist and with a rifle.
Kuljic is on trial along with fellow ex-policemen Goran Vujovic, Miroslav Duka and Zeljko Ilic. According to the indictment, Vujovic was the chief of the Bileca police station, Duka was a police commander, and Kuljic and Ilic were police officers.
Vujovic and Duka are charged with enabling and organising the detention of Bosniak and Croat civilians at the police station and student dormitory in Bileca, where they were killed, tortured and abused prisoners, and Kuljic and Ilic are charged with participating in the physical and mental abuse, torture and killings of Bosniaks and Croats.
The trial continues on July 8.
