Patients with Cuts and Bruises Admitted
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Bozidar Babic, who was the director of the Community Health Centre in Bileca, said that 10 to 15 patients were admitted.
“Most probably the police brought them in, from where, I don’t know, I did not ask. They were brought in for light injuries such as scrapes, cuts and bruises,” recalled Babic and added that “it was not the right time” to ask about the cause of those injuries.
He said he knew many of the injured, among them Hako Djapo, Munib Avdovic, Amir Jaganjac and others.
“Munib Ovcina was sent to Podgorica for treatment. He had an inflammation of the bone of the right shin. After that he went somewhere abroad,” said the witness.
Charged with crimes committed in Bileca are Goran Vujovic, as chief of the police station in Bileca, Miroslav Duka as police commander and Zeljko Ilic as policeman.
Vujovic and Duka are charged with enabling and organising the imprisonment of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the police station’s building and Student Home in Bileca, where they were murdered and abused. Ilic is charged with taking part in physical and mental abuse, torture and murder of Bosniaks and Croats.
The witness said that this group of people stayed in the Community Health Centre between 10 to 15 days, and that they were guarded by the police.
“I am certain they were guarded for their safety, at the time all kinds of people were moving about… They were visited by the Red Cross twice,” said Babic, adding that patients were not complaining and that they received maximum aid.
He said that some of the patients could have gone earlier, but that no one knew “where to put them” and that they “left the hospital in an organised fashion and on their own” and that majority of them left the territory of former Yugoslavia.
Babic added that on the call from the police a doctor from the emergency ward once or twice went to assist “someone who was held there.”
Answering the questions from the defence, Babic that none of the patients was diagnosed with a fracture.
The trial is scheduled to resume on October 21.
