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Bosnia war witness says paramilitary raped
Muslims
Friday September 07, 2012 08:55:20 AM,
AKI
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The Hague: A
prosecution witness in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb military
commander Ratko Mladic has said she witnessed Serb paramilitary
forces raping Muslim women in 1992.
The protected witness, listed as RM-032, told the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that the rapes took
place in Mladic's hometown of Kalinovik.
Dozens of women were detained in a Kalinovik school from July to
September 1992 and paramilitary forces regularly came to take them
out and rape them, she said.
"Some of the girls taken away never returned," she said.
The witness, who was detained with three children and her sister,
said she asked one paramilitary soldier, nicknamed Zaga, when the
girls would return. He replied "never".
Asked what will be done with the detainees, Zaga reportedly said:
"We will kill you, like I killed 20 people a few nights ago."
Mladic has been charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes
against humanity allegedly committed by forces under his command
during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
He was arrested near Belgrade in May last year. After being
transferred to The Hague for trial, he denied all charges.
Mladic's lawyer Dragan Ivetic, cross-examining the witness,
suggested that paramilitary forces were not "regular Serb forces"
under Mladic's command.
The witness agreed, saying they were members of a paramilitary
group called "White eagles".
Since founded by the UN Security Council in 1993, the tribunal has
indicted 161 individuals, mostly Serbs, for war crimes. More than
60 have been already sentenced to over 1,000 years in jail.
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