THREE NEW WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN NADA SAKIC CASE

ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Court investigating judge on Tuesday questioned three new witnesses - including two sisters - in the case against Nada Sakic, suspected of war crimes against civilian population in Croatia during World War II. Andjela Bobic (born 1917) had been arrested in Zagreb in October 1941 after which she was taken to the Stara Gradiska concentration camp. Bobic said she had first heard of Nada Sakic when the pre- trial proceedings against her husband Dinko Sakic were initiated. Bobic was released from the camp in mid December 1942. She said she remembered Maja Buzdon "who was cruel" adding she once saw Buzdon kill a woman prisoner. The sisters Andjela Heder (1917) and Paula Ilibasic (1918) had been arrested with their father in Karlovac in August 1943 as supporters of the people's liberation movement. They were immediately taken to the Stara Gradiska concentration camp, where they remained until autumn 1944. They were later transferred to the Jasenovac concentration camp and exchanged in Pisarovina in 1945. The two sisters said they neither could remember hearing the name Nada Sakic nor the name Nada Luburic, but they did remember Maja Buzdon and other Ustasha officials they used to see in the camp. (hina) rml