GOSPIC GROUP TRIAL: WITNESS DESCRIBES ABDUCTION OF HER HUSBAND

RIJEKA, May 3 (Hina) - Witness Jelica Radic, who is testifying in the trial of the so-called "Gospic group", indicted for war crimes against civilians in Gospic in 1991, described the abduction of her husband Pantelija Radic from a hotel in Karlobag at the Rijeka County Court on Friday. #L# The witness said that three soldiers in camouflage uniforms abducted her ill husband from the hotel "Zagreb" in Karlobag, where they had found accommodation due to the shelling of Perusic. She said that the soldiers who took her husband away had taken away another four people, who they put on a lorry which was parked in front of the hotel and guarded by disguised persons. Radic said that she later saw in Perusic one of the soldiers who had taken her husband away, but she did not know his name. A soldier, who was later killed, told her that her husband had been taken to the Perusic barracks and was executed the next day at Lipova Glavica. Nikola Matanic, a military policeman in Gospic in 1991, and Antonio Stilinovic, a member of an emergency platoon at the time, also testified today. They both said that they had not heard about the abduction of civilians or their imprisonment at the barracks and subsequent execution. The trial resumes on Monday, May 6. (hina) rml