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A witness said that Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Indira Kameric, accused of abusing prisoners in Bosanski Brod, helped to assault a detainee and stamped on him with high-heeled shoes.
Prosecution witness Branislav Nadic told the Sarajevo court on Wednesday that he watched members of the Croatian Defence Council, including a female soldier, beating detainee Jovo Dujic at the Polet stadium in Bosanski Brod.
“The man was moaning due to the beating. He was naked to his waist. He was a big guy,” Nadic testified
“A woman, holding a metal stick, came and began hitting him with the stick and jumping on his chest with [high] heels on her feet,” the witness said.
Nadic said that Dujic had cuts caused by the high-heeled shoes as well as bruises from the blows.
“When that was over, the men who were with me said that her name was Indira,” Nadic said.
When asked by the prosecution if he could recognise the woman in the courtroom, the witness pointed to the indictee.
Kameric, former member of the 101st Bosanski Brod Brigade of HVO, is charged with having participated in the torture of Serb and Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war who were held at the police building and the Polet stadium during 1992.
The indictment alleges that Kameric, who was accompanied by other Croatian Defence Council members, participated in the abuse of detainee Jovo Dujic by beating him with a metal stick and stamping and jumping on his body while wearing high heels.
When asked by the defence if he remembered whether another woman besides the defendant participated in the beating, Nadic said that he did not remember.
The defence presented the witness with his statements given to police in Brod and the State Investigation and Protection Agency in 2006 and 2008, in which he did not mention the woman jumping on Dujic while wearing high heels.
The witness responded that he remembered additional details as he talked about the incident.
The trial is due to continue on May 8.
