Rapes in “Polet”

“I think Indira, who was a lawyer, was the chief in the detention camp,” said Savo Pejic in 2004.

He said that “horrible physical and mental mistreatment” was carried out in “Polet”, adding that men were hit with batons, legs, hands and metal sticks and cigarettes were extinguished on their bodies.

He pointed out that they were forced to have sexual intercourse with female detainees and forced to sing “Ustasha songs”.

Indira Kameric is charged with having participated in the physical and mental torture and inhumane treatment of Serb and Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war in police premises and at “Polet” stadium in Bosanski Brod in 1992.

In her statement given in 2006 Jelka Males said that, besides Croat soldiers, several women were also present at “Polet”, adding that Indira was one of them and that she used to beat prisoners.

In her statement given in 2010 Stana Zivkovic said that she had not known Indira from before and that she saw her in “Polet” detention camp for the first time.

“When I saw her for the first time, she was dressed in civil clothing. I heard that she was in the detention camp and what her function was. Slobodanka Vidic admitted to me that Indira beat her up,” the witness said, adding that she was raped and that a soldier forced her into oral sex with him.

Sofija Vidic said, in her statement in 1994, that she was raped several times in “Polet”. She mentioned that Indira used to enter the room in which she was held and that she was present when some of the women were raped.

Koviljka Stojkovic said in her statement that she was raped at least ten times.

“Six soldiers raped me during one night,” Stojkovic said, adding that HVO members used to rape women like beasts.

In two of her statements the witness said that, when she was brought to the detention camp, Indira Vrbanjac wrote her name in a registry book.

The trial is due to continue on August 28.