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The Hague (The Netherlands), Apr. 14 (ANI): A Bosnian Muslim has claimed that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s death squad had ordered him to dig his own grave.

Karadzic, who is defending himself, was repeatedly reprimanded by the UN judge for hectoring, while trying to browbeat and interrupt Ahmet Zulic, a Muslim survivor of Serbian executions and detention camps, as he cross-examined him.Zulic, 62, entered The Hague court with his head bowed, Karadzic subjected him to a baleful stare over his reading glasses before the prosecution’s first witness began his, often, harrowing testimony.

The former mineworker described to the court how Serbs shelled Muslim houses in Sanski Most, in north west Bosnia, before he and many others were rounded up in June 1992 and held in horrific conditions, where they were regularly beaten or taken off to be killed.

“Two men would kick us in one part of the body and another would use a baton to beat you over the head until you became unconscious,” he said.

I had fractures, broken ribs - six or seven vertebrae were affected. My arm was broken when they told me to make a sign of the cross, which I refused to do,” he said.

In written testimony, Zulic also described how was taken to Kriva Cesta on June 22 1992 where he and 20 other men were given spades and hoes as a groups of senior Serb military were nearby “sitting at a picnic table, drinking and laughing”.

“They gave me a hoe and said I has to dig my own grave,” he said. (ANI)