SIBENIK, April 9 (Hina) - During the trial of Dusan Novakovic (b. 1940) before the Sibenik County Court, witness Denis Delic, who testified on Wednesday, could not recognise the defendant, accused of war crimes, as a person who had
harassed him during his detention in the Knin prison run by local Serb rebels.
SIBENIK, April 9 (Hina) - During the trial of Dusan Novakovic (b.
1940) before the Sibenik County Court, witness Denis Delic, who
testified on Wednesday, could not recognise the defendant, accused
of war crimes, as a person who had harassed him during his detention
in the Knin prison run by local Serb rebels. #L#
The defendant is indicted for harassing and sexually abusing
Croatian soldiers while he was a guard in the Knin prison in
September and October 1991.
Previous six witnesses also did not recognise Novakovic as the man
who abused them while they had been kept by local Serb rebels in
Knin.
The remaining witness, Mirko Gogic, who allegedly lives in Sweden,
is to take the witness stand.
Novakovic was tried in absentia and sentenced to 12 years in prison
on the basis of testimonies of witnesses who had been tortured in
the Knin prison by a man who had that name, Dusan Novakovic.
The defendant, who is currently being tried at the Sibenik court,
was nabbed in Split last year, and at his request the re-trial is
being held now. Dusan Novakovic claims that he was not in Knin at the
time specified in the indictment, let alone that he had tortured
inmates.
(hina) ms