Protected Witness Describes Incident of Rape at Dulic Trial

S-2 said in 1993, members of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army took her, her mother, and her younger brother to “Beganovic’s house, where the house owners and other local residents had already been.”

“There was a lot of fear in that house. Since I was a child, I tried to be quiet,” S-2 said. She said they were accommodated in a room, and had no food.

She said one evening her mother went out to bring them some bread, and she fell asleep in the meantime.

“My mother was crying in the morning. She had bruises. She didn’t want to tell us anything,” S-2 recalled.

She said later on, she heard her mother tell her father that she entered another house that evening. She encountered some soldiers, who forced her to drink alcohol. She said a man had beaten her and asked her questions on the upper floor of the house. The assumption in the case is that what actually occurred was an incident of rape.

During cross-examination, S-2 said she heard her mother say that a soldier approached her and gave her a piece of paper with the name of the man who mistreated her on it.

When asked by the trial chamber whether her mother ever revealed her rapist’s name, S-2 said she told her later on that it was Dulic.

Prior to S-2’s testimony, her mother testified in the absence of the public, under the pseudonym “S-1.”

Dzevad Dulic, a former member of the 510th Bosnian Liberation Brigade of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army has been charged with the rape of a woman in the Cazin area in December 1993. He allegedly was accompanied by two other persons.

The prosecution included nine pieces of material evidence in the case file. Among other things, they included a photo identification report.

The trial will continue on April 17, when the defense will examine three witnesses.