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Kondic et al: Ears Pierced with Stapler

Kondic i ostali

15 March 2010  Hazim Lozic, a Prosecution witness at the trial of Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic, says he was questioned and abused by soldiers in the Public Safety Station premises in Kljuc in June 1992.

"Soldiers came in military transporters to Dubocani on June 10, 1992. Using megaphones, they said everyone should go to their houses, because they were going to search them. They called out my name. I was told to go to a place where the road broadened. They picked me and about ten village residents and drove us by bus to the police station in Kljuc," Lozic said, adding that he was physically abused in a cell at the police station and questioned by the same soldier who had called his name out in the village.

Vinko Kondic, former Chief of the Public Safety Station in Kljuc, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic are charged with having committed crimes against humanity, having organized a group of people and having abetted them to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Kljuc area during 1991 and 1992.

The indictment alleges that, from May 27 to the end of August 1992 soldiers and policemen searched the villages in the Kljuc area and arrested civilians, who were then detained in the school building and the old railway station in Sanica, the Public Safety Station and the "Petar Kocic" school building in Kljuc, among other places. The Prosecution contends that, after having been examined, at least 1,611 men were escorted by police to Manjaca detention camp.

Lozic said he thought the Army "occupied the Public Safety Station" in that period of time, adding that he saw people dressed in military and police uniforms in the building.

"They would take us one by one for questioning. When my turn came, he asked me about the Green Berets. He said I was a member of the Green Berets, because I had a green shirt, but this was not true. He then pierced my ears using a stapler and took me out to the corridor and told the others I was a member of the Berets," Lozic said.

The witness said the same soldier then put a knife into his mouth. He said other detainees told him he was "a captain" from Banja Luka.

After having spent two days in the Public Safety Station building in Kljuc, Lozic was transferred together with several other people to Manjaca, where he stayed until October 31, 1992.

"I suppose the police made a decision on who should go to Manjaca and who would be released, after having examined us. (...) During the course of the first eight days in Manjaca, they used to beat us instead of giving us breakfast and lunch. Then they transferred us to a stable. Some other people had already been there. We had to pass by some soldiers, who had baseball bats and electricity cables in their hands, and beat us with them," Lozic said.

The witness said he found out, after having been released, that his wife "had to consign our belongings and our property to Republika Srpska" before she could leave Kljuc.

The trial is due to continue on March 17, 2010.