A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic said he was beaten by the defendants and others while being held in detention in Livno.
The sexual abuse of boys and girls was widespread during the Bosnian war. Although associations of war victims have registered approximately 1000 instances of wartime child rape, experts estimate that the number is much higher.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army accused of war crimes in Mostar said he was beaten several times by Bosniak forces in a school in Potoci.
The trial of four former members of the Bosnian Army charged with war crimes in the Rogatica and Gorazde area has been postponed due to the absence of Fahrija Karkin, Emir Drakovac’s defense attorney.
A defense witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said he believed he gave the defendant, a former Bosnian Serb military police officer, a drive to the Gorjevac area in Bihac. The witness, also a member of the military police, was driving civilian detainees to Hrgar, a village in the municipality of Bihac.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of seven former Bosnian Croat prison managers and guards said he was beaten and tortured during his detention in a prison in Ljubuski in 1993.
At today’s hearing of the Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura trial, the defense teams cross-examined a witness who said he was beaten by approximately 30 soldiers in the Capljina police station.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Marijan Brnjic was found guilty of raping a Serb woman in the Odzak area in 1992 and sentenced to six years in prison.
A state prosecution witness testified at the trial of Goran Mrdja, Milorad Mrdja, Ranko Mrdja and Mile Kokot, former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers charged with war crimes in the Sanski Most area. The witness said injured party Sefer Drobic told him he’d been beaten by Goran Mrdja, nicknamed Kinez.