Local Justice Hodzic and Hadzic: Hit with a Fist
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The witness said that he was captured in Bukvik village, Brcko municipality in mid-September 1992 and transferred to the nursery garden some time later, adding that indictee Hadzic personally drove him to that place.
During the first three days I stayed in a small room with barred window in the nursery garden. They took me to indictee Galib Hadzic for examination. He showed me some photos of me wearing a military uniform with Serb marks, the witness said.
According to the witness, indictee Hadzic questioned him about military units in the Bukvik area and armaments and punched him with his fist on his face and body several times.
The Brcko District Prosecution charges Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic with having participated in the torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war from the Bukvik area, Brcko District during the course of 1992 and 1993.
The Prosecution of Brcko District alleges that Hadzic was a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and inspector with the Crime Police of the Public Safety Station in Brcko and Hodzic was military policeman with the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, who worked as security guard in detention camps and collection centres in the referenced period of time.
A few days later they took me from the small room in the nursery garden to a big garage within that same complex. Other people who had been captured in the Bukvik area, were held in it too. Some other unknown soldiers used to come to the garage and beat me up almost every day, Radic said.
The witness said that, after having spent 17 days in Gornji Rahic, he was transferred to a prison in Tuzla, where he was physically mistreated.
The trial is due to continue on September 8.M.A.
