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Dolic: Rape of 17-year old girl

Darko Dolic

19 March 2010  A protected Prosecution witness says she was raped by "soldier Dole" in 1993, identifying indictee Darko Dolic as the person who raped her.

"This is the guy. I am a hundred percent sure he raped me. I shall never forget his face. I am not interested in his name or family name, but I do remember his nickname and I shall never forget it," said witness S1, testifying in a separate cabin while her voice and face were altered.  

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Darko Dolic, as a member of the "Rama" Brigade with the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, with having "forced other people into having sexual intercourse with him using threats". The indictment alleges that Dolic participated in abusing, intentionally causing physical and mental suffering and robbing civilians from Prozor municipality during 1993.

The witness said she lived in Prozor municipality until the beginning of August 1993, adding that she was "loaded into trucks", as were other women, "and taken to another village".

"They brought us to Lapsuj village. They separated women from girls. Two soldiers came in. One of them was Zoka and the other one, who was shorter, was called Dole. They singled out Bahrija Majusak, witness S2 and me. They took us to another house. Dole took me into a room, equipped with an old sofa cut with a knife. He ordered me to take my clothes off," the protected witness recalled.

S1 claims that "Dole" repeated the order to take her clothes off three times before pointing his rifle at her.

"I took my clothes off. I had no other choice. He pulled his trousers down to his knees. Then he raped me. I felt as if I was dead. I felt terrible....I did not dare scream. I was in pain. This was the first time I slept with a man," the witness said, adding that she was 17 at the time.

The witness said that, once Dole "finished with it", he did not let her dress herself, but he sat on a chair, took a cigarette and told her she "would be his and nobody else's from now on", adding that he knew her brother as they had attended the same school.

S1 said she did not know what was happening to witness S2 and Bahrija Majusak, but she said the soldiers took them back to the house in  Lapsuj village together.

"We did not say a word. We have never spoken about it," the witness said, adding that she joined her mother, friend and several other people who ran away from the house and went to the woods, where she stayed until the deportation. She did not specify when this happened.

The witness said she did not know what had happened to the girls who had stayed in the house, adding that she heard, after the war, that they had been raped every night.

The trial is due to continue on April 8, 2010.