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Kondic et al: Beaten For No Reason

Kondic i ostali

18 March 2010  Esad Sulic, who testified for the State Prosecution at the trial for crimes committed in Kljuc, says he was taken from his house in Sanica, beaten and detained in Manjaca detention camp, where he stayed for about half a year.

"I do not know how to explain all that happened. I am trying to forget it. I cannot understand those people who beat us - how can someone hit his neighbour with a rifle butt on his head with no reason at all?" Sulic said.

 

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Vinko Kondic, former Chief of the Public safety Station in Kljuc and a member of the Kljuc Crisis Committee, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic with crimes against non-Serbs in Kljuc.

 

The indictment alleges that they were responsible for associating with a group of people and abetting them to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Kljuc area during 1991 and 1992.

 

Sulic told the Court he worked in a wood-processing factory in Sanica until April or May 1992, when "Serb soldiers prohibited him from coming to work".

 

"Three men came to the factory and told me that Muslims could no longer work there. On that day they took us 150 or 200 Muslim workers to the school building in Sanica and detained us in the school gym. I personally saw them hit old people in the gym. We spent the whole day there. It was excruciating," he said.

 

The witness said that "Serb Army forces" and reserve and active policemen guarded the school building in Sanica.

 

"They took us out at about midnight. We had to pass between two columns of people, who hit us, before we could get on a bus. They beat us like animals.
They pushed us down, so we could not see who was beating us. They took us to the school building in Kljuc, where we again had to pass between two columns of people. They beat us and told us all kinds of things while we were passing through," the witness said.

 

The indictment alleges that members of the Army and police forced male residents of Sanica out of their houses on May 31, 1992 and "unlawfully deprived" about 200 of them "of their liberty and detained them in the school building in Sanica, where they were physically and mentally abused".
It further alleges that, on the next day policemen transported them to the "Nikola Mackic" school building in Kljuc, where they "were tortured even more".

 

Sulic claims to have been questioned by "crime policeman Mica Bulac" upon his arrival at the school in Kljuc. He said Bulac provoked and mistreated him.

 

"They gave me a paper, saying I was innocent. They took me to a room from which I could see them loading other men into buses and driving them in an unknown direction. The next morning we had to pass between two columns of people again before they took us to Sanica. They told us we must not leave the place or walk too far, adding we should show our papers if someone comes to the village," he said.  

 

He said in mid June 1992 "active policeman Milan Tomic and some soldiers" came to his house in Sanica and took him to the municipality building in Sanica.

 

"In the morning a big truck came. They beat us so brutally it was horrible to watch. There were about 170 of us. They took away our jewelry and money.
They took my wedding ring away. We went to Kljuc, stopped in front of the police station and continued on our way to Manjaca detention camp," Sulic said, adding that he stayed in Manjaca until December 16, 1992.

 

The Prosecution contends that from May to August 1992 more than 1,161 men were escorted by police to Manjaca detention camp, after having been "tortured and beaten" in detention centers in the Kljuc area.  

 

The next hearing is due to take place on March 22 this year.