May God Help You

Slavko Jovicic said that about twenty people, who were held with him in Krupa military barracks in 1993, were taken to Mount Igman. As he said, Glavas was one of them. He said that, later on he heard from other detainees and guards that Hodzic, who was accompanied by other soldiers, torture and abused Glavas, who died due to the injuries.

“As a human being, I would like Hodzic to say where Jadranko Glavas’ grave is now that 21 years have passed since his death. (…) People said that the abuse lasted two days and two nights. They broke everything in his body. (…) They killed him only because his last name was Glavas. At that time Tihomir Glavas was Chief of Police in Ilidza, so they associated him with that man,” Jovicic said.

He told the Court that guards, “whom I had helped” and who tried to protect him, showed him Hodzic, whom he saw, when he came to Krupa by an SUV.

“I saw him hit two detainees twice or three time. They fell down either out of fear or due to the beating. (…) He never looked for me by my first and last name. We knew when he was going to come. Guards would say: ‘May God help those whom he gets hold of’,” Jovicic said.

Nedzad Hodzic and Dzevad Salcin, former members of “Zulfikar” Special Purposes Squad with the Main Command Headquarters of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, are charged with having tortured, beaten and sexually abused detainees, cut parts of their bodies, intimidated them and participated in other inhumane acts on Mount Igman.

Besides that, according to the charges, Nedzad Hodzic and other members of his unit took Jadranko Glavas out of a detention facility on Mount Igman. After that they allegedly hit him with steel sticks until he died. The indictee then threatened other detainees by telling them that they would end up in the same way.

The indictment alleges that Salcin, also known as Struja, cut a prisoner’s ear.

Witness Mujo Spirijan told the Court that he heard that Struja cut the ear of a person nicknamed Vojvoda. The witness said that he thought that indictee Dzevad Salcin, whom he knew by his first and last name, as well as nickname, did that.

Spirijan, former member of “Zulfikar” Squad, said that rumours, saying that Salcin had done it, reached him. Responding to a question made by Salcin, the witness specified that it was done by Struja, so he associated it with him.

The witness said that he did not know any other persons nicknamed Struja.

The trial is due to continue on February 6.