Rapes in Kosovo Polje

A Bosnian prosecution witness told Dragan Sekaric’s trial for crimes in Visegrad that two protected witnesses told her that they were raped in July 1992 in Kosovo Polje, near Visegrad.

Amela Medjuseljac said that residents of Kosovo Polje slept in the woods in the summer of 1992 and came to the houses just to get food or bathe. One day the witness was in the house with her mother, sister and father.

“I heard someone saying: ‘there they are’. I ran from the house, around 150 metres and hid. When I heard all was quiet I returned home. I saw Fatima begging S1 to put the fire out in her house. She was a mess, traces on her… I knew what she survived”, said Medjuseljac.

According to her, witness S1 told her that Fatima was burned in her house and that she knew who shot her.
“I saw that Fatima burned in the hall”, said S1 to the witness, and added that a day later they found the remains of Fatima in a dish.

Medjuseljac recalled that S1 said she was raped in the house by Dragan Gorazdak.
 
“He said his name and that he was from Gorazde and that he was abused and that he came to Visegrad to get revenge”, said Meduseljac recalling what S1 told her.
 
The Bosnian prosecution charges former Bosnian Serb territorial defense member Dragan Sekaric with ordering civilians out from a house in Kosovo Polje and raping a woman.

Medjuseljac also said that S3 told her she was raped in the same house as S1 but that she didn’t know the name of the person who did it. Medjuseljac concluded by the description that it was done by a man called Brane Cubrilovic.
 
The witness said she saw Cubrilovic outside her house when he heard a soldier telling Fatima: “Old lady, you have no money and you want to buy a car”.
 
At this hearing the testimony of deceased witness Adem Smajovic was read, in which he spoke about the attack on Kokino Selo, a crime Sekaric is charged with. Smajovic said that Sekaric took part in the attack and that the victims were all civilians.
 
The trial resumes on July 10.