Bosnian Serb Soldier Helped to Burn Village
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The protected prosecution witness codenamed RV-12 told the Bosnian court in Sarajevo on Wednesday that he was hiding at the attic when around 100 soldiers arrived in the village of Kabernik in the morning in June 1992.
They started shooting at the rooftops and burning houses. I could only recognise Vitomir Rackovic, the witness said.
They would approach, set a house on fire and the house would immediately burst into flames. I saw when they set fire to the houses of Esad Kadric and Esref Mulaomerovic. Then they left towards [the village of] Holijaci, I could not see them anymore, RV-12 said.
Rackovic is charged, as a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier, with participating in attacks on the Bosniak villages of Crni Vrh, Osojnica, Kabernik and Holijaci, where he took part in illegal detentions, torture, forced disappearances, rapes and other inhumane acts.
RV-12 said that his wife, who was in the house with other women and children, was abused and ended up all black and blue.
He said that he heard some of his neighbours were taken away and that he does not know what happened to them.
The trial continues on October 8 because the defendant has to have hospital treatment.
