Testifying at the trial for crimes committed in Prozor, a protected Prosecution witness says she was raped the night indictee Darko Dolic and two more soldiers came to her village.
“I came out of the house and I saw Zoran Calic and two more soldiers, as well as witness S1 and Bahrija Majusak. They took us to a house. A soldier took me to one room and ordered me to take my clothes off. He raped me…” witness S2 said, adding that she was under 17 at the time.
Witness S2 said she heard later that the soldier who was in the room with S1 was Darko Dolic. She identified Dolic in court.
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 to have sexual intercourse with him”, while threatening them. The indictment alleges that Dolic participated in abusing, intentionally causing physical and mental pain and robbing civilians in Prozor municipality during 1993.
Zoran Calis had died before the indictment was filed.
The protected witness said she was taken from her house and raped at the beginning of August 1993, adding that Darko Dolic and Zoran Calis had come to the village the night before, when they cursed and insulted people and took away S1 and Bahrija Majusak.
“I cannot remember how the two of them looked when they brought them back to the house. They did not say anything. They were overwhelmed with fear,” S2 said.
The indictment alleges that Dolic raped witness S1, who was a minor at the time, on several occasions in the first half of August 1993. The witness lived in a house together with 30 other women. The Prosecution alleges that the indictee, Calis and one more soldier took S1, S2 and one more person out of this house.
Protected witness S1 testified for the Prosecution in mid March this year. She said she was 17 years old when Dolic raped her.
At this hearing the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented several pieces of material evidence, completing its presentation of evidence.
The trial is due to continue on May 20, when a status conference will be held in order for the Defence to present its evidence presentation plan.