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who were both underage at the time; I was raped by five people every single day and ‘Trcko’ 48
was pimping me out to other men in exchange for a pack of cigarettes, letting them abuse me
freely.” The injured parties confirmed the allegations in the indictment about the destruction of
the mosque in Skočić, the murder of Arif Nuhanović, the physical torture and rape of captives as
well as the taking of all the ethnic Roma to the village of Malešić, where the three women were
separated from the rest of the group who were taken to an unknown place. They also confirmed
the allegations in the indictment of repeated rape, physical abuse and being forced to do the
laundry, cook and undertake housework at the places where they were held. Giving her testimony
on the ethnic Roma who were taken by the defendants from Skočić and subsequently shot dead,
protected witness ‘Alfa’ stated that a brother and sister of the injured party Zija Ribić were
among them, thus contributing to determining the identity of all the victims.
Injured party ‘Alfa’ recognized Đorđe Šević, Dragana Đekić, Zoran Stojanović, Zoran Alić and
Simo Bogdanović in the courtroom. During her testimony, injured party ‘Beta’ asked to be shown
into the courtroom and confronted with the indictees, so that she could “look them in the eye”;
she recognized Simo Bogdanović, Zoran Alić and Zoran Stojanović. She became so distressed
during this ‘confrontation’ that she had to leave the courtroom.
The testimonies of the protected witnesses were marked by inappropriate conduct of the
indictees, who used vulgar language and asked questions which were aimed at showing disdain
and causing additional trauma to the victims. The presiding judge warned them he would not
tolerate such behavior.
Expert witness Dr Miodrag Blagojević, who conducted a psychiatric examination of Zoran Alić,
was questioned during the main hearing. He stated that, at the time of the crime, the indictee was
able to understand its meaning and consequences.
Another expert witness, Dr Đorđe Alempijević, was also questioned. On the basis of medical
documentation – the record of the exhumation, autopsy and examination of the exhumed remains,
compiled by expert witnesses from BiH – he conducted a forensic examination of the mortal
remains of the injured parties exhumed from a mass grave at the ‘Crni vrh’ (the Black Peak), near
Zvornik, between 28 July and 3 October 2003. He confirmed that the mass grave at ‘Crni vrh’
was a primary mass grave, but did not exclude the possibility that the injured parties might have
been killed in other location and subsequently buried in the primary mass grave. The fact that
only remains of skeletons were found, made him conclude that a long period of time was likely to
have passed since the moment of death of injured parties, which could possibly have occurred
July 1992. For the majority of injured parties, it could be safely said that their deaths were violent
as evidenced by injuries found on the skeletal remains, and which were possibly inflicted by a
firearm or fragments from an explosive device. In relation to the injured parties on whose skeletal
remains no injuries were found, and for whom therefore the cause of death could not be
48 ‘Trcko’ is the nickname of indictee Zoran Stojanović.
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