Bosnian Serb Fighters Sexually Abused Kotor-Varos Detainees
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The protected prosecution witness codenamed KV-11 told the Bosnian state court on Monday that he was taken to the police station in Kotor-Varos after attacks on his village near the north-western Bosnian town in June 1992.
Soon the shelling of the town began. Gunfire, a nightmare During that shooting I was wounded, the witness said.
He said that although he was injured, he walked away through the forest, where Serb soldiers captured him, beat him up and took him to the police.
He was placed in a room with other male detainees, where soldiers in red hats ordered them to sexually abuse each other.
They told us to take our trousers off and give each other blowjobs, he said, adding that the abuse lasted for a couple of hours.
After that, the witness said, one of the soldiers took him outside, tied him up and forced him to eat grass.
He was standing there and hit me if I swallowed the grass, he added.
The witness said that he was then transferred to a building by the post office at Kotor-Varos. Inside was a room full of people, beaten and bloody, he recalled.
After he lay in the corner of the room for 15 days without medical assistance, one of the guards, who he named as Dusko Tesic, came and took him to the local health centre.
However he was beaten at the health centre and doctors refused to give him any medical care, he testified. He said that Tesic couldnt help him any more and that he was returned to detention.
Dusko Vujicic, Dusko Maksimovic, Radojko Keverovic, Savo Tepic, Dragoslav Bojic, Rado Skoric and Ilija Kurusic, are all charged with having participated in the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats, as well as detentions, torture and other inhumane acts in Kotor Varos in 1992.
According to the indictment, Tepic was the chief of the police station in Kotor Varos and a member of the Crisis Staff in the municipality, Bojic was the commander of the police station, Vujicic was a police officer, Maksimovic, Skoric and Keverovic were reservist policemen, while Kurusic was a member of the Bosnian Serb Army.
They have all pleaded not guilty.
The trial continues on November 17.
