Robert Hausvička
Robert Hausvička was born in 1968 in Dubrovnik, in a family of Czech origin. He spent his childhood and youth in Dubrovnik. His father was a sailor. At the beginning of the war in Croatia he volunteered for the special police forces and he participated in activities related to the defence of Dubrovnik. At the beginning of the war, on October 21, in one of the actions in the Dubrovnik area, near to Pobrežje, he was captured by Montenegrin paramilitary units and taken to the Bileća camp. The first two months of his imprisonment in Bileća were spent in solitary confinement. After almost six months in Bileća, he was transferred to the camp in Morinj, where he remained for almost three months. He was freed in an exchange on July 2, 1992. A few days after returning to Dubrovnik he again joined the special police forces and he went to fight. He participated in Operations Maslenica and Flash. As a consequence of serious abuse suffered in the camps, by the end of the war he was in treatment for PTSD. He spent two years undergoing intensive treatment. Later he continued to fight against the problems that he faced on his own, mainly through physical activity. In November 1996 he was retired. In 2003 he testified at the Court in the Hague as a witness for the prosecution against Slobodan Milošević. Today he lives with his wife and three children in Dubrovnik.