Partizan

ICTY

In 1992, the Serb authorities detained civilians of predominantly Bosniak nationality in more than 20 detention centres in the Foča area. The detention locations included a warehouse in Livada, the Foča prison, the Foča hospital, the police station in Miljevina, the “Brioni” isolation cells in the Foča prison, the house of Slobodan Matović, the penitentiary in Velečevo, the elementary school "Brod na Drina," a military warehouse in Čohodor Mahala, a house in Trnovača, the house of Munib Hodžić, Presjeka near Ustikolina, the apartment of Asim Džanka in the village of Donde Polje, houses in the village of Điđevo, Karaman's house in Miljevina, the “Lepa Brena” building in Foča, a house near the hotel Zelengora, the Partizan Sports Hall, the central high school in Foča, Buk Bijela, and Bukovica. (paras. 628., 637., 638., 640., 641., 648. Krajišnik, p. 230, 232, 233, 234, 237.)

The detainees in the Foča high school were transferred to the Partizan Sports Hall on July 13, 1992, where they were detained until August 13, 1992, after which most of the detainees were deported to Montenegro. (para. 26. Zelenović, p. 10.), (para. 916. Karadžić, vol. I, pp. 361-362.)

The detention of civilians from Foča’s surrounding villages in the sports hall was characterised by inhumane treatment and physical and psychological torture, including sexual abuse. (para. 26. Zelenović, p. 10.), (para. 39. Krnojelac, p. 16.), (paras. 915-917. Karadžić, vol. I, pp. 361-362.), (paras. 676-677. Mladić, vol. I, p. 349.), (paras. 574-575. Kunarac et al., p. 190.)

Girls were taken from the sports hall to apartments in Foča starting in mid-July and raped. (paras. 574-575. Kunarac et al., p. 190.), (paras. 640-641. Krajišnik, pp. 233-234.), (para. 921. Karadžić, vol. I, p. 363.)

In early August, some women were taken from Partizan and detained in a house near the Miljevina hotel, known as “Karaman’s House,” where they were raped. From there, starting in October 1992, they were taken to other houses and apartments and sexually abused. (para. 27. Zelenović, pp. 10-11.), (para. 41. Kunarac et al., p. 22.), (para. 641. Krajišnik, p. 234.), (paras. 921-922. Karadžić, vol. I, pp. 363-364.), (para. 664. Mladić, vol. I, p. 345.)

On several occasions, other women and girls were brought from Partizan to a house with the address Osman Đikić Street 16. The purpose was sexual abuse. (para. 40. Kunarac et al., p. 22.), (paras. 919-920. Karadžić, vol. I, p. 363.), (para. 684. Mladić, vol. I, pp. 352-353.)

Women were also taken to an abandoned house in Trnovača in early August 1992 and raped. (para. 43. Kunarac et al., p. 23.), (para. 922. Karadžić, vol. I, pp. 363-364.), (para. 665. Mladić, vol. I, p. 345.)

Buses transporting civilians were organised in May 1992 and around August 13, 1992, women and children were taken to Rožaje in Montenegro. On October 23, 1992, a group of women and children who were detained for a month in the Partizan Sports Hall were deported by bus to Goražde. At the end of 1994, the last Bosniak detainees who were still in the Foča prison were exchanged. (para. 49. Krnojelac, p. 18), (paras. 649-650. Krajišnik, pp. 237-238.), (paras. 931., 933-934. Karadžić, volume I, pp. 367-368.), (para. 724. Mladić, volume I, p. 371.)

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Miljevina, during May and the summer of 1992, multiple rapes were recorded. Some of the Bosniak women were held for several days in a hotel in this town and physically and sexually abused, and some in other facilities, including the police station and the Partizan Sports Hall. (Neđo Samardžić appeal judgment, p. 2), (paras. 235-247. Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenović, pp. 4, 63-67), (paras. 43-51. Dragan Janjić appeal judgment, pp. 4, 19-22), (Gojko Janković, pp. 2-3, 54)

From Partizan, women and girls were taken to apartments in Foča and houses in the settlements of Gornje Polje and Trnovača, where they were raped and sexually abused. (Gojko Janković, pp. 2-3, 66), (paras. 114-126., 306-309. Jasko Gazdić, pp. 5, 50-53, 93-94)

In early September 1992, the civilian population of Miljevina was transferred by bus to a location by the separation line near Goražde. This was after the women and children had been held in the Partizan hall in Foča and subjected to physical abuse and robbery, after which many women were taken to apartments and raped. (Neđo Samardžić Appeals Judgment, p. 3.)