"I have given my statement several times and I have nothing to add," said Bulovic when asked by Presiding Judge Spomenka Tonkovic if he wanted to amend his statement given during the investigation and the examination-in-chief during the initial trial in 2002.
Judge Tonkovic then read out Bulovic's initial statement in which he said that he and his twin brother Gojko were taken from their home in Split to the Lora military prison on the morning of 13 June 1992, after military police searched their house for weapons. They were interrogated separately, after which he never saw his brother again. Bulovic said that his interrogators ran electricity through his ears, asking him meaningless questions which he could not answer, and that apart from this he was not beaten or abused otherwise.
During the night he heard screams and cries for help, recognising his brother's voice and something that sounded like a death rattle. He heard from other prisoners that soldiers came to the prison to torture the prisoners. When asked directly by the accused if any of them had abused him, Bulovic answered in the negative.
Two days later, the witness was taken to the district prison in the Bilice neighbourhood, where he stayed three months and where he said he had been treated appropriately.
Asked by defence counsel if he knew that criminal proceedings were conducted against him, which was the reason why he was taken to prison, Bulovic answered in the negative. When shown criminal charges for armed rebellion pressed against him and around 20 other people on 12 June 1992, one day before his arrest, Bulovic said those accusations were groundless.
Asked by prosecutor Michelle Squiccimaro about his ethnic background, Bulovic said, offended, that he was neither a Serb nor a Chetnik. On Squiccimaro's insistence, he said that he was a Croat of Orthodox faith.
Three other witnesses who had been summoned failed to appear at today's hearing, while other summons could not be served.
Judge Tonkovic read out the statement of one of the witnesses given at the initial trial in 2002, when the accused were acquitted.