ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Nov 24 (Hina) - The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic continued before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Monday with the testimony of a prosecution witness who described how Serb forces
had maltreated and killed Muslim prisoners in eastern Bosnia during the 1990s war.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Nov 24 (Hina) - The trial of former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic continued before the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague on Monday with the testimony of a prosecution
witness who described how Serb forces had maltreated and killed
Muslim prisoners in eastern Bosnia during the 1990s war. #L#
Ibro Osmanovic, a resident of Vlasenica, described how the Yugoslav
People's Army (JNA) occupied his town in April 1992 and installed a
Serb government that discriminated against the Muslim population.
The witness said he was arrested for no reason in May 1992 and
subjected to maltreatment at the local police station.
He said that the Serb authorities had arbitrarily arrested, abused
and killed prisoners, whose bodies he said he had seen while in
prison.
Osmanovic was transferred from the prison to the Susica camp, and
then to the Batkovic camp, where he stayed until his release in July
1993.
The witness said that camp prisoners had been tortured and killed,
and used as forced labour. Some inmates were tortured so much they
asked the guards to kill them, he added.
Milosevic is charged with genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.
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