JUDGE QUESTIONS ANOTHER WITNESS IN NADA SAKIC CASE

ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) - The investigating judge of the Zagreb County Court on Thursday questioned Mara Cvetko, born in 1921, a witness in the case against Nada Sakic, suspected of war crimes committed during her service as an Ustasha official in the Stara Gradiska concentration camp in World War II Croatia. Witness Cvetko, who gave her testimony in her apartment, had been arrested as a member of the Communist youth movement in Zagreb. After several months in different prisons in Zagreb, she was transferred to the Stara Gradiska camp in December 1942. She remained there until it was closed down, but spent several months in the Jasenovac concentration camp in mid-1943. Cvetko said she remembered Nada Sakic under her maiden name Nada Luburic and that she used to see her in the Stara Gradiska camp. According to Cvetko, Sakic behaved as all other women officials in charge of prisoner supervision. However, she had not seen Sakic do anything she is charged with. Nada Sakic is suspected of having maltreated and tortured women prisoners and having participated in the selection of prisoners and their children for execution. (hina) rml