Genocide in NW Bosnia - Eyewitness Statement - 6.1
Davorin Dujmovic
STATEMENTS, 1992 - PRIJEDOR, SANSKI MOST, KLJUC
The following are eye-witness statements. For reasons of
individual security, witnesses' personal data are excluded, but
are available at the Department for Collecting Documentation and
Processing Data on the Liberation War, Croatian Information Cen-
tre, Zagreb, Croatia.
Statement VI
A statement by a minor from the village of Biscani (Pri-
jedor county), where the massacre of civilians was committed on
July 20, 1992. Suffering of civilian prisoners in the camp locat-
ed at the soccer stadium in Ljubija. (Muslim, 1977), male
Before the arrival of Serb units, it was peaceful in our
village. On Monday, July 21, 1992, about 10:00 a. m., we heard
from our neighbors that Serb units were coming. Some were arriv-
ing by the road, while others were crossing over the fields. Pan-
ic spread through the village. They were armed to the teeth. In-
fantry and army terrain vehicles came first, and were followed by
a transporter. They screamed and cursed the people, forced them
out of their homes and killed them. They forced male villagers to
sing Serb songs and do push-ups.
I was in the house, but managed to flee to the woods be-
fore they reached the village. While I was fleeing, I heard them
abuse and mistreat the people.
Two hours after the ransack, I started back toward the
village with two neighbors. Many youngsters my age fled with me,
but I returned with two of them. One is a little older and the
other one is the same age as myself. It was still daylight when I
started back. I heard an army minibus coming. We paused to see if
it was coming toward us, but it went by.
Then we saw the dead. They lay in a heap, one over the
other, executed. I crossed to the other side and found my family.
I found my father, brother, cousin, grandfather, and three neigh-
bors. No one survived, they were all dead. Saban Kadiric was
butchered.
I was terrified and did not know what to do. I went back
to the woods and told the others what had happened. We moved then
to a field called "Naklja". This field is actually a willow-
grove. We hid there. In the evening I returned home. I asked my
mother if she knew what had happened. She claimed to be ignorant
about what had happened, and I did not want to tell her anything.
I went back. I was the only one who occasionally left the shelter
and went to the village. The last evening I took some food and
clothes, and said that we should try to get through to Cazin. I
told my mother if anyone offered to send them to Croatia or any-
where in the free territory, she should accept.
That evening we set off to the Bukvik woods. There were
about 150 of us. In the Bukvik woods we met up with some 120 peo-
ple. We had ten or twelve guns. From this location we moved on to
the Kurevo woods, to join captain Asim Muhic.
After two days there, the Serb paramilitaries attacked
us. A transporter came into the woods, and everybody scattered.
An anti-aircraft gun was placed on the transporter, and it tore
the flesh off those it hit.
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Davorin Dujmovic
Statement VI
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