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Savic and Mucibabic: Only bad things

17 July 2008  Prosecution witnesses testify about the sexual abuse during detention and describe the search for the remains of their close family members.

Former residents of Bakracusa village, who appeared as witnesses at the trial of Krsto Savic and Milko Mucibabic, said that they were tortured and sexually abused during their detention in the buildings in Nevesinje municipality in 1992.

"After having been captured, we were brought to a hotel in Nevesinje, where soldiers asked Krsto Savic what they should do with us. Savic told them to take us to 'Alatnica'," protected witness H said. She was captured, together with her family members, on June 16, 1992.

Savic and Mucibabic are charged with having participated in the murder, rape, forced resettlement, disappearances, property demolition, detention, capture and physical and mental abuse of Bosniaks from Nevesinje, Kalinovik, Bileca and Gacko in the course of 1992.

"We spent eight days in the tools factory. A five-month-old baby was the youngest prisoner. All kinds of bad things happened there. On one occasion a soldier asked me to come out to wash dishes in another room. Then he tried to rape me," witness H said.

As indicated by this witness, Krsto Savic, known as Kico, once came to "Alatnica" ("Tools Factory") and told the detainees that they were going to be exchanged, adding that "Mileta Mucibabic would drive" them. As stated by H soldiers used to say that Savic was "chief of police."

"Mileta came in a police vehicle. He then escorted the buses, in which we were driven to the exchange. When we got near the separation line in Buska someone started shooting at us from the territory controlled by Bosnian Serbs. A boy and an old man were wounded," H said.

Second Prosecution witness Musan Sarancic testified about the detention and sexual abuse of women in "Alatnica". He said that his mother and wife Sabira, whose body was found in a mass grave in Nevesinje, were taken away from the tools factory. He still has not found his mother's remains.

"My sister told me that they used to take women to some warehouse. She said that they took her and my wife, who had been pregnant for five months at the time, with them on several occasions. One time they took Sabira and my mother. This was the last time she saw them," Sarancic said.

This witness and his family members were captured on June 17, 1992. One of the places in which he was detained was a cinema hall in Nevesinje.

"They tied our hands and took us from that place towards Bileca. Other people told me that Savic had ordered them to do so. While I was in Bileca they once forced me to sexually abuse a sick woman, but I refused to do it. Milos Mavrak beat me up because of that and he then forced me to wash my own blood from the floor," Sarancic said, adding that he thought about committing suicide several times already due to the torture he survived during the course of his detention.

This witness said that Savic was "chief of security" and he was "in control" of the situation in Nevesinje.

The trial is due to continue on Friday, July 18.