Kind Bosnian Croat Jail Guard Helped Prisoners
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Witness Ljubo Djakovic told the Sarajevo court on Friday that he was captured on May 9, 1992, and taken along with other Serb men to the gym in the primary school in Odzak where prisoners were held, and where Tolic was one of the guards.
“His relation with me was decent… While I was in the gym I did not see any negative characteristics of Tolic. I did not see him hitting anyone in my presence,” the witness said.
Tolic, a former member of the 102nd Odzak Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council, is charged with having participated in the abuse of Serb prisoners in the Odzak and Bosanski Brod area from May to October 1992.
Djakovic said that he was held for a month at the school and had no problems with the guards there, but was assauolted by fighters who visited the school.
“Once I was in the gym when ten soldiers came, they hit us. I later heard that those were soldiers from Croatia,” he said.
He also said that three unknown people hit him once, while he was going to the toilet to wash dishes, but Tolic chased them away.
“I heard a noise and Tolic yelling: ‘Get out, leave that man, he is working for us.’ Tolic made them get out and he helped me a lot,” the witness said.
The trial continues on October 17.
