Witnesses Confirm Rape of Injured Party by Bosnian Serb Army Soldier

According to the indictment, Djurovic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, raped a Bosniak woman in 1992 in an abandoned building in the Sarajevo settlement of Vraca. He threatened to kill her and her child if she resisted.

The witness was invited to testify by the cantonal prosecution of Sarajevo. She said while humanitarian aid was being distributed, the injured party told her that she had been raped by Djurovic.

“She held her baby in her arms and cried. She said she was raped by Predrag Djurovic at Vraca,” said the witness, who requested to not have her name published.

The witness said she couldn’t remember when the injured party told her she’d been raped.

The mother of the injured party also testified at this hearing. She said her son-in-law told her that her daughter had been raped by a soldier who also raped her younger daughter a few days earlier.

“The soldier came with a rifle. She was covered with a blanket. He took off the blanket, pulled her by the hair and took her away. She spent the night at his place and he returned her tomorrow. She came home crying…When she came back, I knew what he did to her,” said the mother of the injured party.

The witness told the court that after the incident her older daughter was no longer the same person.

“I saw by the way she spoke that she wasn’t normal [wasn’t herself],” she said.

The trial will continue on May 14.