[4] She took jobs bathing elderly nursing home patients and worked at a Nestlé food plant in the small rural town of Mount Sterling, where locals knew her as "Issabella".
[6] According to testimonies, on April 26, 1992, Croat groups, with the assistance of Croatian military units, entered the village of Čardak and took dozens of local Serbs hostage.
A witness testified that Bašić brought a Croatian flag with a checkerboard coat of arms and ordered prisoners to kiss it and made them eat Yugoslav dinar paper money.
[8] She engraved a cross and the letter ‘S’ on prisoners' backs and foreheads with knives, put salt on their wounds and forced them to lick it.
Others described how they were made to crawl half naked across broken glass with a knotted rope in their mouths and a Croatian soldier on their backs.
[10] On 27 December 2017, a Bosnian court sentenced her to 14 years in prison for taking part in "killing and inhumane treatment, infliction of great pain and violation of bodily integrity and health" of detained civilians.