Before Zaire, Servs "Practiced" In Croatia and Bosnia

[Barry S. Marjanovich]

I. GENOCIDE

002 B-H - LJUBIJA - July 24/25, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians; rapes.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 24/25, 1992; village of Brisevo (cca 4
kilometres south of Ljubija).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Members of "6th Krajina Brigade"
attacked the Croat populated village of Brisevo. L. I., mother of
four girls (6-12 years of age) was killed by fragments of a
mortar shell. A soldier (fair hair, with black gloves, he carried
a wooden club) ordered six Croat civilians to take picks and
shovels, and to follow him. He ordered them to dig a large hole
in a nearby field. After they finished digging, Serbian soldiers
brought two women and forced them to watch them kill civilians.
Luka Mlinar was killed with a pick. Milan Ivandic was first
castrated, and then killed with a wooden club. Pejo Ivandic, and
Stipo Ivandic were also killed with a wooden club. All six Croats
were buried in a common grave. A witness gives the names of
killed Croat civilians that he saw: Miro Buzuk (father's name
Mato), Vlado Buzuk (father's name Mato), Srecko Ivandic, Ivo
Lovric, Srecko Buzuk, Milan Buzuk (cut up with knives), Mato
Buzuk, Ivica Buzuk, Marko Buzuk (beaten with clubs, then set on
fire), Kata Bujadilo (killed with a knife), the entire family of
Luka Komljen (5 persons), the entire families of Srecko and Stipe
Ivandic (6 persons). Lj. M., N. M., and R. I. were raped.
PERPETRATORS: Members of the "6th Krajina Brigade" from Sanski
Most, Serbs from the village of Rasavci and Ostra Luka, among
whom were Mirko Jeftic and Pero Jeftic; Croats from the village
of Raljas - Marko Mlinar nicknamed "Ceri", and Ante Dimac
(father's name Nedo).
EVIDENCE: Video and audio tape recordings of an interview with a
witness, supplemented by a written statement currently kept in
the archives of the Centre.

II. WAR CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIANS

001 CROATIA - 1991-1993

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Wounding and killing of children
under 17 years of age.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 1st, 1991 to June 4th, 1993; the Republic
of Croatia.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Over 3% of the wounded and over 6% of
the killed of the total number of war victims in the Republic of
Croatia are children under 17 years of age. In the war initiated
by Serbia and Montenegro, along with the former YPA, against
Croatia, 166 children were killed in the period between July 1,
1991, and June 4, 1993, while 698 of them were wounded. These
numbers only cover the registered and documented cases. Children,
regardless of age, suffered from the consequence of arms and war
destruction. Pre-school children (0-6 years old) make up 19% of
the killed children, and 16% of the wounded. That means that 31
pre-school children were killed, and 111 were wounded. School
children (7-14 years old) make up 39% of the killed, and 44% of
the wounded children. 64 school children were killed and 313 were
wounded. Teenagers (14 to 17 years old) make up 42% of the
killed, and 40% of the wounded children. 71 teenagers were
killed, and 254 were wounded. 43 children will remain invalids.
70% of the killed and 73% of the wounded children were boys.
Children suffered in almost all parts of Croatia. Over 90% of the
killed, and over 80% of the wounded children were victims of
various arms: injures were caused by heavy artillery projectiles;
explosions of mortar, tank, artillery guns and other shells;
multiple rocket launchers; air-raids or air-strikes; employment
of cluster bombs, 250-500 kilo bombs; "Luna" earth-to-earth
rockets (FROG-7), etc.
PERPETRATORS: YPA; volunteers from Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Montenegro, and the Serbian minority in Croatia; numerous
paramilitary or irregular police formations, mostly party bound,
such as "Beli Orlovi" (military members of the Serbian Radical
Party led by Vojislav Seselj), "Arkanovci" (Arkan's unit, led by
Zeljko Raznjatovic Arkan, and "Srpska Garda" ("Serbian Guard" of
the Serbian Reformation Party, led by Vuk Draskovic).
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Report from the Institute for Mothers and
Children Protection, Medical Statistics and Epidemology Dept.,
June 7, 1993, currently kept in the archives of the Centre.
NOTE: 416 children are registered as missing with the Croatian
Red Cross.

005 B-H - BOSANSKI BROD - March 28, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Attack on civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: March 28, 1992; village of Donja Vrela (cca 14
kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Armed soldiers in YPA uniforms
occupied the village of Donja Vrela. Among them were: Goran
Vukman (father's name Slobodan), Djordje Sljuka (father's name
Zarko), Vid Sljuka (father's name Zarko) who worked as a postman
in Vinska, Goran Jakovljevic, Zoran Jakovljevic, Slobodan
Jakovljevic, Josip Vujic, Zoran Vujic, and Zoran Calar (who
graduated from the military academy) - all are from the village
of Donja Vrela. The majority of the population in Donja Vrela
were Croats. The YPA soldiers were stationed in the centre of the
village, and they frequently searched Croat owned houses, and
maltreated Croats while allegedly looking for arms. Some Croats
were terrorized in order to force them to leave their homes. The
Serbs threatened that all of Croats who did not surrender their
arms would be taken to Lijesce (near Bosanski Brod) and detained
there. On April 25, 1992, (Orthodox Easter) an armed group of
Serb villagers of Donja Vrela, led by Goran Vukman, fired from
automatic guns on the witness' house for some 20 minutes. They
did not stop until YPA soldiers arrived. The house is
considerably damaged.
PERPETRATORS: Soldiers dressed in YPA uniforms, among whom were:
Goran Vukman (father's name Slobodan); Djordje Sljuka (father's
name Zarko) who worked as a postman in Vinska; Goran Jakovljevic;
Zoran Jakovljevic; Slobodan Jakovljevic; Josip Vujic; Zoran
Vujic; Zoran Calar (who graduated from the military academy) -
all from the village of Donja Vrela; Marko Djukic.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

006 B-H - BOSANSKI BROD - May 11, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: May 11, 1992; village of Donje Vrelo (cca 14
kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Goran Jakovljevic (18 years old)
passed near the witness' house. He was dressed in YPA uniform,
and was armed with a rifle. He went towards Andja Jurilj (born
1909) and Anto Jurilj's (Andja's husband, born 1910) house. After
approximately an hour, the witness heard gun shots from the
direction of Andja and Ante Jurilj's house, and he went there.
Their house is approximately 500 metres away from his house. He
saw Goran Jakovljevic crouching in a bush near the road. The
spouses were lying on the house porch. Andja Jurilj lied
motionless, facing the ground, while blood was gushing from an
open wound on her hip. Ante Jurilj lied near her, his head was
covered with a plastic can. Both of them were dead. The witness
ran home.
PERPETRATORS: Goran Jakovljevic (18 years old), dressed in YPA
uniform.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

007 B-H - BOSANSKI BROD - May 13, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: May 13, 1992; village of Donje Vrelo (cca 14
kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: A. J. and a witness hid in the nearby
woods from YPA members and a group of armed Serb villagers from
Donje Vrelo (led by Goran Vukman) who terrorized residents in
this area. On May 13, 1992, the witness went to the centre of the
village in order to find someone to help him bury Ante Jurilj
(born 1910) and his wife Andja (born 1909). Since he found no
one, he set out to his house. However, he had to hide, because he
saw an armed YPA soldier in his yard. The soldier wore a mask,
but the witness recognized him by his hair. It was Savo Djukic
from the nearby village of Klakar. He set off to the woods in
which the witness hid at night. The witness did not leave his
shelter. Soon, he heard a gun shot. After three hours, he
gathered courage and went into the woods. There he found the body
of Ante Jurilj (Martin's son). The victim was shot in the head.
Alarmed, the witness ran from the woods. On May 14, 1992, he met
members of the Croatian Defence Council. He told them what had
happened and took them to the woods. There he noticed that a
cross was carved with a knife on Ante Jurilj's right arm. The
witness took the soldiers of the Croatian Defence Council to Ante
and Andja Jurilj's house. He heard when the soldiers said that
they were first killed from fire-arms, and then their throats
were slit. All three victims were buried in the Catholic cemetery
in the village of Donje Vrelo.
PERPETRATORS: A YPA soldier - Savo Djukic (Serb) from the village
of Klakar.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

008 B-H - BOSANSKI BROD - May 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Looting and destruction of
civilian property.
TIME AND LOCATION: May 11 to May 14, 1992; village of Donje Vrelo
(cca 14 kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Soldiers dressed in YPA uniforms
passed through the village of Donje Vrelo. They were retreating
from the villages of Lijesce and Zboriste. In Donja Vrela, they
were joined by soldiers who were stationed there, and by a Serb
minority who lived in the area. They departed in the direction of
the village of Podnovlje (Doboj district). Before their
departure, YPA soldiers and the local Serb population looted, and
set on fire Croat owned houses, took away agricultural vehicles,
and killed Croat civilians. Some local Serbs burnt their houses
and sheds, to ensure that no one would use them any more. A group
of Serbs led by Goran Vukman (all of them were Serb villagers of
Donje Vrelo) looted Andja and Ante Jurilj's house, and took away
their agricultural vehicles. During the night of May 13/14, 1992,
those same men set on fire Jurilj's house and most of the houses
in Donja Vrela.
PERPETRATORS: Soldiers dressed in YPA uniforms, among whom were
Serb civilians from the village of Donja Vrela, also dressed in
military uniforms, and led by Goran Vukman (Slobodan's son).
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

009 B-H - BOSANSKI BROD - May 16, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: May 11 to May 14, 1992; village of Donje Vrelo
(cca 14 kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: From May 11 to May 14, 1992, an army
dressed in YPA uniforms, among whom was a group of Serb villagers
led by Goran Vukman, withdrew towards the village of Podnovlje.
For three days they looted and set on fire civilian property in
this village, and killed Croat villagers. The extent of the crime
became known only after the soldiers of the Croatian Defence
Council entered the village. YPA soldiers and armed Serbs killed
the following Croats: Marijan Pavic (an elderly man); Andja
Jurilj (born 1909); Anto Jurilj (born 1910, Andja's husband);
Ante Jurilj (50 years old, Martin's son); Ana Cosina; Jozo
Katovic's mother (an elderly woman); Nikica Katovic; Anto
Katovic; Ivica Jerkovic; Ilija Rasic; Jozo Cerikan; Franjo
Matanovic; Ilija Blatancic; Niko Duspara; Ilija Duspara (all
civilians). They were buried on May 16, 1992, in the Catholic
cemetery in the village of Donje Vrelo.
PERPETRATORS: Soldiers dressed in YPA uniforms; armed Serb
villagers of Donje Vrelo: Goran Vukman (Slobodan's son), Djordje
Sljuka (Zarko's son), Vid Sljuka (Zarko's son), Goran
Jakovljevic, Slobodan Jakovljevic, Josip Vujic, Zoran Vujic,
Zoran Celar.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

010 B-H - LJUBIJA - June 24/25, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Internment of civilians to
concentration camps.
TIME AND LOCATION: On June 24th and 25th, 1992; village of
Brisevo (cca 4 kilometres south of Ljubija).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Serb paramilitary authorities in
Ljubija ordered the arrest of J. B., J. I., and J. J. on June
24th; and J. M., S. M., and J. B. (all civilians) on June 25th,
1992. They interned the prisoners to the Keraterm concentration
camp in Prijedor. All prisoners were Croats from Brisevo.
PERPETRATORS: Serb paramilitary authorities in Ljubija.
EVIDENCE: Video and audio tape recordings of an interview with a
witness, supplemented by a written statement, currently kept in
the archives of the Centre.

011 B-H - LJUBIJA - July 4, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Infliction of pain and bodily
harm.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 4, 1992; village of Brisevo (cca 4
kilometres south of Ljubija).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: While a group of young Croats were
gathering hay in a nearby field, two armed Serb villagers of
Ostra Luka arrived. They ordered J. L., M. M., and M. I. to
follow them, because their car allegedly broke down the country
road, and they needed help. In the forest, they beat up those
three men. When the men returned, the witness saw that they were
badly beaten. M. I. was pierced with a screwdriver in the left
side of his stomach, and J. L.'s head was bleeding from cuts. Due
to the Serbian occupation in the Ljubija area, the men could not
see a doctor.
PERPETRATORS: Two armed Serb civilians from the village of Ostra
Luka. One of them was Mladen Topic's son.
EVIDENCE: Video and audio tape recordings of an interview with a
witness, supplemented by a written statement, currently kept in
the archives of the Centre.

IV. WAR CRIMES AGAINST PRISONERS

001 CROATIA - STARA GRADISKA - March/April 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Torture and inhumane treatment;
killing of prisoners.
TIME AND LOCATION: March/April 1992; Stara Gradiska concentration
camp.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: "... Camp supervisor was Jadranko (42
years old), a YPA colonel who worked in Zagreb for six years
(until 1991). He interrogated me several times. During
interrogations he ordered two YU-Army soldiers to beat me. On one
occasion he ordered me to follow him. He took me to the basement
of the building and showed me a room filled with water. He
threatened me that he would push me into the "pool" and electrify
me unless I confessed. He told me that the pool flowed into the
Sava River, and that if I did not survive, my body would end up
in the river. He showed me the electric cables and a metal net
that was touching the water in the pool. He kicked me and pushed
me in. The metal net fell on my head. Soon I felt light
electrical shocks, which became stronger. I fainted. They pulled
me out of the water. After ten days, the electrical shock
treatment was repeated. Once they dragged me out of my cell at
1:00 a.m., and beat me ruthlessly. The prisoners S. P. and A. M.
later told me that they did not believe I would survive. Upon the
arrival of the ICRC representatives we were registered, and were
allowed to write to our families. Soon after registration, I was
transferred to Manjaca, along with a group of other prisoners.
However, a group of prisoners who were not registered with the
ICRC remained in Stara Gradiska, because the Serb authorities hid
them. Those were predominately members of the Croatian Defense
Council who had been detained in the camp long before I arrived.
There were also Serbs who were detained in the camp because they
refused to fire on Croatians, and fight against Croatia during
the 1991 war. I remember a major (Serb) who refused to fire on
Croatians. He was sentenced to eight years of hard labour by the
military court in Banja Luka. N. S. was forced to dig out graves
for those prisoners who had been beaten to death, or killed in
some other manner during interrogations. He was also
unregistered, and he remained in Stara Gradiska."
PERPETRATORS: Serb camp authorities in Stara Gradiska; camp
supervisor and interrogator Jadranko (42 years old, last name
unknown).
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

002 B-H/CROATIA - MANJACA/KNIN - October 20, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Inhumane treatment and physical
abuse of prisoners along the journey to a prisoner exchange.
TIME AND LOCATION: October 20, 1992; Manjaca concentration
camp/Knin.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Some 30 prisoners were given a large
amount of salt, and were forced to swallow it. This happened
during the bus ride to Zitnic (Croatia), where 118 prisoners were
being taken for to an exchange. The witness was on one of the
buses. Since no exchange took place, the armed escorts took the
118 prisoners into the Knin prison, and locked them in a building
where they were supposed to spend the night. The prisoners were
maltreated during the night. Members of the irregular SAO
militia, persons in uniforms, and even civilians came to the
premises and beat the prisoners from 7:30 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. D. D.
from Brisevo, and I. F. from Sanski Most (both Croats) underwent
the worst treatment. The following day (October 22, 1992) the
prisoner convoy of buses returned in the direction of Manjaca
where they were imprisoned once again.
PERPETRATORS: Armed escorts; members of irregular SAO militia;
persons in uniforms, civilians from Knin.
EVIDENCE: Audio tape recording of an interview with a witness,
supplemented by a written statement, currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

003 B-H - OMARSKA/MANJACA - August 6, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Internment to another camp;
physical maltreatment and killing of prisoners.
TIME AND LOCATION: August 6, 1992; Omarska and Manjaca
concentration camps.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: The witness was put on the last of 14
buses that took prisoners from the Omarska concentration camp to
the Manjaca concentration camp. After the witness' departure,
some 180 prisoners remained in the Omarska concentration camp,
among whom were M. T. and M. T. from Gornji Volar (both Croats).
According to the witness, armed escorts killed 18 prisoners along
the journey, and another 12 prisoners in front of the entrance
to the Manjaca concentration camp. During the ride from Omarska
to Manjaca, prisoners were escorted by members of the irregular
police called "Martic's unit", and two camp guards from Omarska:
Milojica Kos nicknamed "Krle", and Zoran Miodragovic.
PERPETRATORS: Members of Martic's unit; two camp guards from
Omarska: Milojica Kos nicknamed "Krle", and Zoran Miodragovic.
EVIDENCE: Audio tape recording of an interview with a witness,
supplemented by a written statement, currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

004 B-H - DERVENTA - March 18, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Torture and inhumane treatment
towards prisoners.
TIME AND LOCATION: March 18, 1992; Derventa.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: "... armed YU-Army members arrested I.
(last name unknown) and me at the entrance to Derventa, near the
Automobile Association. They took us to the Derventa prison. Ivo
was wounded during the arrest because the YU-Army soldiers fired
at us. We were maltreated in the Derventa prison. Among the YU-
Army soldiers I recognized Mitar Nikolis (Serb) from the village
of Agici, near Derventa. They cursed our "Ustasha mothers".
Several hours later they took us to the Rapcanski Most (Rapcanski
Bridge) (cca 3 kilometres east of Derventa), and locked us up in
a school. They tied a band over our eyes and gagged our mouths,
put a rope around our necks, and tied our hands on our backs with
a wire. They tied us together, and then they started beating and
kicking us. They beat us with rifle-butts, fists, clubs, and
kicked us with their boots. When we fell they beat our heads
against concrete or stones. They broke all of my teeth. They
splashed water on us. They beat us two hours. Then they took us
to the Motajica Mountain where they literally threw us in a room.
We spent the night with bands on our eyes, and with our hands and
necks tied one to one another. I. bled. I could feel his sticky
warm blood. I heard when the door opened, and somebody started
shouting. Somebody was shouting because we were tied. They took
the blindfolds from our eyes, and gags from our mouths, and they
untied our hands and took the rope off our necks. I saw a man in
uniform with a white belt. He was a military policeman. He took
us to Stara Gradiska (Croatia) and interned us to the camp there.
I. still bled, because no one treated his wound."
PERPETRATORS: YU-Army members in Derventa, Motajica and Prnjavor,
among whom were Mitar Nikolic, Simo Drakula, Milan Vukovic, and a
man called Radula.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

005 B-H - MANJACA - May/June 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Torture and inhumane treatment of
prisoners; killing of prisoners.
TIME AND LOCATION: May/June 1992, Manjaca concentration camp.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: "... I arrived in the Manjaca camp
from the Stara Gradiska camp. YPA soldiers escorted us during the
transfer. They beat us terribly. Upon our arrival in Manjaca we
first had to clean manure from sheds that were 50x20 metres
large. They used to keep livestock in them. When we cleaned the
sheds, they gave us straw, and we made ourselves beds out of that
straw on the concrete floor. There were cca 600 prisoners in a
single shed. There was not enough food. For breakfast, we got one
loaf of bread, 5 tins of liverwurst and 1/2 litre of tea per 30
persons. Our lunch was equally bad as breakfast: 1 kilo of bread
per 30 prisoners, and a helping of boiled potatoes or beans per
person. Our guards (mostly Serbs from Prnjavor and Derventa) beat
us. Prisoners were forced to dig trenches around the camp, and
put up a barbed wire fence. The camp supervisor was Zoran
nicknamed "Zoka" (born 1959). In the Manjaca camp, a guard
nicknamed "Bule" (blond hair, from Sarajevo) killed a prisoner,
Zlatko, from Osijek. By the end of May 1992, Serbs brought to the
camp 1,800 or 1,500 Muslims from Kljuc and Sanski Most, and
locked them in three sheds. I was exchanged on June 30, 1992,
near Dragalic. During the 105 days of my internment, I lost 17
kilos."
PERPETRATORS: Serb camp authorities in Manjaca; camp guards from
Prnjavor and Derventa; a camp guard nicknamed "Bule" (Serb from
Sarajevo).
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.

VIII. DESTRUCTION OF SACRAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORIC OBJECTS

001 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE
DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: September-December 1991; Bosanska Gradiska.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic parish church (built in 1913,
and renovated in 1989), and the parsonage (built in 1990) were
damaged in the period between September and December 1991. The
region is not a part of the immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

002 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: January/May/September 1992; Bosanski
Aleksandrovac (cca 15 kilometres north of Banja Luka).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic parish church (built in 1899,
and renovated in 1988), and the convent (built in 1882, and
renovated in 1980) were damaged by machine gun fire in January,
May, and September 1992. The region is not part of the immediate
war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

003 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: September 1991, June 1992; Nova Topola (cca 12
kilometres south of Bosanska Gradiska).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic parish church (built in 1891)
was damaged in September 1991, and June 1992. Parsonage (built in
1885, and renovated in 1990) was seriously damaged and looted in
September 1991, and June 1992. The region is not part of the
immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

004 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: December 1991, May 1992; Dolina (cca 12
kilometres east of Bosanska Gradiska).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic parish church (built in 1991)
was damaged in December 1991, and in May 1992. The region is not
part of the immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

005 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 1992; Sanski Most.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic parish church (built in
1894), was damaged by machine gun fire in July 1992. The region
is not part of the immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

006 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: July-September 1992; Vrbanjci (cca 6
kilometres southeast of Kotor Varos).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: The new Catholic parish church and the
parsonage (built in 1985) were damaged in the period between July
and September 1992. The region is not part of the immediate war
zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

007 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: September 1992; Presnace (cca 5 kilometres
southeast of Banja Luka).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: The facade of the Catholic parish
church (built in 1981) was strafed with machine gun bullets in
September 1992. The region is not part of the immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

008 B-H - BANJA LUKA DIOCESE

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Destruction of sacral objects and
property.
TIME AND LOCATION: November 1991; Celinovac (near Nova Topola).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Catholic church affiliated with the
Nova Topola parish (built in 1991) was damaged in November 1991.
The region is not part of the immediate war zone.
PERPETRATORS: Armed Serb civilians and Serb irregular authorities
in the area.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: July 19, 1993 issue of "Vreme" magazine,
published in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 54-55, in the section entitled
"Reagovanje". Title: "Duhovni genocid" ("Spiritual Genocide").
Document currently kept in the archives of the Centre.

XI. RACIAL AND OTHER DISCRIMINATION

001 B-H - LJUBIJA - November 5, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Desecration of bodies; concealing
crimes committed against civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: November 5, 1992; village of Ljeskare (cca 3
kilometres northeast of Ljubija).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: On November 5, 1992, beneath Ljubijica
Hill, near the village of Ljeskare, members of armed Serbian
formations from the village of Ljeskare burnt the remains of
bodies of civilians that had been murdered by members of armed
Serb formations from the village of Ljeskare during July 1992
(July 19th to July 25th, 1992). They were murdered in the Kurevo
woods where they sought shelter, because members of irregular
Serb formations either killed all non-Serbs, or took them to
Keraterm, Omarska and Krings concentration camps. In the Kurevo
woods (near Ljubija) several hundred individuals of different age
and sex (children, women, men, elderly persons) were killed, and
their bodies remained unburied. In the beginning of November
1992, members of armed Serb formations from the village of
Ljeskare gathered body remains and burned them on November 5,
1992. Stipo Drincic from Ljubija stood guards in the village of
Ljeskare. Stipo Drincic is a Croat who joined armed Serb
formations.
PERPETRATORS: Members of armed Serb formations from the village
of Ljeskare and Ljubija, among whom was Stipo Drincic.
EVIDENCE: Written statement given by a witness currently kept in
the archives of the Centre.

002 B-H - MANJACA - December 13, 1992

DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Unjustifiable delay of prisoners'
repatriation.
TIME AND LOCATION: December 13, 1992; Manjaca concentration camp.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: On December 14, 1992, according to an
agreement, all Manjaca prisoners were to be released under ICRC
supervision and transferred to the UNHCR transit centre in
Karlovac. On december 13, 1992, Serb authorities in the Manjaca
concentration camp ordered the transport of 532 prisoners in the
direction of Bijeljina. Upon their arrival in Bjeljina, prisoners
were taken to a farm in the village of Batkovic where they were
locked up in large metallic storehouses. The UNCHR
representatives did not reach the camp before December 18, 1992.
They made a new prisoner list. Among the 532 prisoners who
arrived from Manjaca, there were also 80 prisoners from Bosanski
Samac, and 63 prisoners from Kotor Varos. The prisoners from
Bosanski Samac said that the local guards in Bosanski Samac
pulled their teeth out with tongs. The camp guards in Batkovic
were local villagers dressed in uniforms of the former YPA
(olive-drab uniforms), and armed with automatic weapons.
PERPETRATORS: Manjaca camp authorities.
EVIDENCE: Audio tape recording of an interview with a witness,
supplemented by a written statement, currently kept in the
archives of the Centre.
A video tape recording of the prisoner relocation from the
Manjaca camp on December 13, 1992, currently kept in the archives
of the Centre.
.

[Galina]

[Y Rapido]

Barry S. Marjanovich wrote:
>
> I. GENOCIDE
>
> 002 B-H - LJUBIJA - July 24/25, 1992
>
> DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians; rapes.
> TIME AND LOCATION: July 24/25, 1992; village of Brisevo (cca 4
> kilometres south of Ljubija).
> SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Members of "6th Krajina Brigade"
> attacked the Croat populated village of Brisevo. L. I., mother of
> four girls (6-12 years of age) was killed by fragments of a
> mortar shell. A soldier (fair hair, with black gloves, he carried
> a wooden club) ordered six Croat civilians to take picks and
> shovels, and to follow him. He ordered them to dig a large hole
> in a nearby field. After they finished digging, Serbian soldiers
> brought two women and forced them to watch them kill civilians.
> Luka Mlinar was killed with a pick. Milan Ivandic was first
> castrated, and then killed with a wooden club. Pejo Ivandic, and
> Stipo Ivandic were also killed with a wooden club. All six Croats
> were buried in a common grave.

etc.

rap: Now, imagine how miserable a nation can be, such as
Croatian nation, when the Croatians later on teamed up with
the Serbs, and became SERVS OF THE SERVS (!) in order to do
the same type of crimes to the Bosnian nation -- the nation
that basically sided with Croatians !!! How about that
for SERVITUDE TO THE SERVS ?

Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it !

[John Smith]

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>Barry S. Marjanovich wrote:
>>
>> I. GENOCIDE
>>
>> 002 B-H - LJUBIJA - July 24/25, 1992
>>
>> DESCRIPTION OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians; rapes.
>> TIME AND LOCATION: July 24/25, 1992; village of Brisevo (cca 4
>> kilometres south of Ljubija).
>> SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Members of "6th Krajina Brigade"
>> attacked the Croat populated village of Brisevo. L. I., mother of
>> four girls (6-12 years of age) was killed by fragments of a
>> mortar shell. A soldier (fair hair, with black gloves, he carried
>> a wooden club) ordered six Croat civilians to take picks and
>> shovels, and to follow him. He ordered them to dig a large hole
>> in a nearby field. After they finished digging, Serbian soldiers
>> brought two women and forced them to watch them kill civilians.
>> Luka Mlinar was killed with a pick. Milan Ivandic was first
>> castrated, and then killed with a wooden club. Pejo Ivandic, and
>> Stipo Ivandic were also killed with a wooden club. All six Croats
>> were buried in a common grave.
>

>etc.
>
>rap: Now, imagine how miserable a nation can be, such as
>Croatian nation, when the Croatians later on teamed up with
>the Serbs, and became SERVS OF THE SERVS (!) in order to do
>the same type of crimes to the Bosnian nation -- the nation
>that basically sided with Croatians !!! How about that
>for SERVITUDE TO THE SERVS ?
>
>Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it !

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I-189
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of civilians.
PLACE AND TIME: Gospic and its surroundings, the second half of October
1991.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In the second half of October 1991, members of the
special police and ZNG (the Croatian National Guard) units of the Republic of
Croatia collected distinguished Serb civilians in Gospic according to a list
prepared in advance, put them on trucks at night, took them away, tortured and
killed them.
Twenty four bodies of Serbs from Gospic were found near Perusici and 19 of
them were identified at the forensic medicine ward.
As regards a large number of other Serbs, there is reason to believe that
they were thrown into a pit called "Katina jama", four kilometers away from the
Gospic-Karlobag main road; it is known that three persons were killed while
allegedly trying to escape, but it is not known where they were buried.
The following persons were arrested, taken away and are missing:

I. Men:
1. Radovan Barac, PTT clerk in Gospic
2. Todor Banjeglav, waiter
3. Jovo Bogic,
4. Rade Bogic,
5. Slavko Buncic,
6. Dane Bulj, social insurance officer, 55 years of age, from Gospic,
7. Djuro Vujnovic,
8. Milan Vujnovic, pensioner from Karlobag,
9. Nikola Gajic, pensioner, 58 years of age,
10. Branko Draganic, worker in Licki Osik (Teslin-grad),
11. Djoko Djukic,
12. Sava Djukic,
13. Milan Zakula,
14. Milan Ivanisevic,
15. Nedeljko Igric, communal inspector,
16. Sveto Jankovic,
17. Milojko Jokic, police officer,
18. Djordje Kalanj, investigative judge, 52 years of age,
19. Dane Korica, pensioner,
20. Milan Kovacevic,
21. Nikica Kovacevic,
22. Simo Kljajic, journalist,
23. Simo Krajnovic,pensioner,
24. Branko Kuzmanovic, retired police officer, 53 years of age, from
Gospic,
25. Petar Lazic, driver. 42 years of age,
26. Milan Masic, pensioner,
27. Radovan Masic, worker,
28. Momcilo Mandic, retired police officer,
29. Boro Maric, forest technician,
30. Nikola Miscevic, retired police officer,
31. Zeljko Mrkic, police officer,
32. Mihajlo Nikolic, forest technician,
33. Milos Orlovic, medical technician from Karlobag,
34. Milan Pantelic, meteorologist,
35. Djuro Pavlica,
36. Janko Pavlica, merchant from Karlobag,
37. Milan Pavlica,
38. Nikola Pavlica,
39. Milan Pavlovic,
40. Milan Pejnovic, worker in the "Zagrebacki transporti",
41. Mico Pejnovic, police officer,
42. Gojko Radmanic,
43. Dragan Rakic, social insurance worker,
44. Milan Smiljanic, invalid,
45. Stanko Smiljanic, employee in the Pension and Disability Insurance
Bureau, 54 years of age, from Gospic,
46. Bogdan Stojanovic, worker in the "Industrogradnja" hotel, from
Karlobag,
47. Nikola Stojanovic, pensioner,
48. Bosko Tomicic, clerk in "Visocica",
49. Nebojsa Tresnjic, 55 years of age,
50. Pajo Copic, pensioner, 70 years of age,
51. Milan Uzelac, self-employed mechanic,
52. Gojko Hinic, police officer,
53. Milan Cubelic, construction technician,
54. Branko Stulic, deputy public prosecutor, 54 years of age,
55. Bogdan Suput, forestry engineer, 56 years of age, from Gospic.

II Women:
56. Danica Barac,
57. Ankica Begic,
58. Borka Vranes, pensioner,
59. Dusanka Vranes, nurse,
60. Radmila Diklic, clerk in a tourist bureau,
61. Marica Djukic, retired professor,
62. Smilja Zakula,
63. Milica Jankovic,
64. Mirjana Kalanj, clerk, 46 years of age, from Gospic,
65. Soka Masic, pensioner,
66. Marija Miscevic, court clerk,
67. Mileva Orlovic, the wife of Milos, from Karlobag,
68. Andjelka Pantelic, saleswoman,
69. Mirjana Pantelic, student, daughter of Milan and Andjelka,
70. Nada Pavlica,
71. Soka Pavlica, the wife of Janko, cleaner in the Karlobag police,
72. Ljubica Panjevic, 75 years of age,
73. Boja Potkonjak, pensioner,
74. Milica Potkonjak,
75. Radmanic, the wife of Gojko,
76. Radmila Stanic, professor of chemistry,
77. Ljubica Trifunovic, pensioner,
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Tomislav Mercep and members of the special police units of the Republic
of Croatia,
2. Tihomir Oreskovic, former emigrant,
3. Ivan Oreskovic, called "Grobar", the brother of Tihomir, one of the
organizers of the "defense of Gospic",
4. Miroslav Petri, born in Perusici, HDZ president, used to work in a bank
in Gospic,
5. Mirko Norc, one of the military commanders of the Croat forces, born in
Split,
6. Ivica Rozic, called "Roki",
7. Martin Markovic, called "Irfan",
8. Ivan Mazuran.
EVIDENCE: Documents filed with the Committee under number 4/0- 49/94.
NOTE: Supplement to application I-013.
II-082
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of arrested persons-POWs.
PLACE AND TIME: Gorazde, June 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Moslem soldiers kept the body of the killed Serb soldier Bojan Radovic from Gorazde for two days in the street in the settlement of "1.
maj" in Gorazde, danced and sang around him.
At the funeral of late Bojan, his father Ostoja Radovic noticed 15 bullet
wounds and other injuries on Bojan's body, which leads to the conclusion that
Bojan was arrested and then killed.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Ibro Merkez, head of the Gorazde police,
2. Hadzo Efendic, president of SDA (the Party of Democratic Action) in
Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee
under number 440/94-8.

II-083
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing of arrested persons-POWs.
PLACE AND TIME: Gornji Potocari, the commune of Bratunac, June 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Dragan Mitrovic, a retired miner, born in 1929, from the village of Donji Magasic, was heavily disabled and walked with two walking
sticks.
On 16 June he tended cattle nearby his house when he was approached by
Babajic, Ramic and Ibrahimovic from the village of Glogovo and forcibly taken to the Moslem village of Cizmici and closed in the house of Camil Muratovic. He was beaten.
On 25 June Mitrovic's sons were on the hill called "Cuka", in the
neighborhood of Cizmici, when they heard Moslems calling them, proposing to
negotiate on the exchange of Mitrovic. They wanted to see their father first, and they took him out in front of Camil Muratovic's stable. Mitrovic could hardly walk with the help of a stick; he shouted that he was alive and well.
In exchange for Mitrovic they demanded 5 tons of flour or 5 boxes of
ammunition, which his sons did not have. Then they shouted to them: "Send your
mother Jovanka. We have no one to fuck; we'll give you your father back".
Mitrovic's sons felt humiliated and asked in despair their friends to kill
their father so that Moslems could not torture and humiliate him any more, but
they refused.
Mitrovic was taken to the prison in Gornji Potocar, where Beslic, the
warden, beat him daily; one day he hit his head against the wall, and when he
fell kicked him to death with his boots. His body was thrown into the Potocanska reka (a river), and later taken in a truck in an unknown direction.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Hajro Beslic from Bratunac, prison warden in Gornji Potocar,
2. Ejup Golic, former shipper, from the village of Glogovo,
3. Sabrija Babajic, of father Mehmed, from the village of Glogovo,
4. Murat Ramic, of father Osman, from the village of Glogovo,
6. Camil Muratovic, from Cizmici,
7. Refik Babajic, of father Rama, from Glogovo.
EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of Mitrovic's son Jovan, filed with the
Committee under number 560/94 and the document of the Basic Court in Zvornik Ki. 70/93 filed with the Committee under number 266/1-94.

III-060
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Inhumane treatment of civilians.
PLACE AND TIME: Ferhatlije, near Pazarici, 8 September 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Around 9 p.m. five persons entered the house in which
the witness was accommodated, four of whom were in camouflage uniforms, and one
in civilian clothing.
They grabbed the witness by the hair and dragged her into the garden, where two of them started slapping her face and pinching her, requesting gold and
money. As she had nothing to give to them, they ordered her to strip naked, which she refused. One of them put a knife under her throat, while another one took off her clothes.
After that, one of them unbuttoned his trousers, sat on the bench, pulled
the witness's hair, made her kneel and put his sexual organ into her mouth,
holding her hair until he satisfied himself.
After that he stood up, and another one ordered her to lie on the bench.
When she refused, they pushed her down, and the mentioned person forced her into sexual intercourse two or three times. Then the other three joined them, stood
in a circle and threw the witness from one to another, until she fainted. When
she fell on the ground, they dressed her in a robe put a cigarette in her mouth
and insulted her in various ways. They threatened to kill her and her children
if she told anyone.
Around 11 p.m. they brought her into the house. She was so exhausted that
two of them led her by the arm. She fainted when she entered the house.
Since the witness missed her period, she went to see a Moslem doctor and
told him what had happened. Dr. Ibizovic told her that he was sorry for what had happened because of the pride of the Moslem people, but that she had deserved it, since her husband was a Chetnik who was killing the Moslem people, carrying heads of Moslem
children. He gave her two injections and probably, according to the witness, he either induced an abortion or resolved a disorder which she might have had as a result of fear, after which she regained her period and freed herself from enormous mental pres
sure. INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
Five Moslems, four of which were wearing uniforms.
EVIDENCE: Minutes from the hearing of the witness filed with the Committee
under number 412/94-10.

V. DELIBERATE KILLING AND INHUMAN TREATMENT
OF THE WOUNDED AND THE SICK

V-046
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing and inhuman treatment of the
wounded and the sick
PLACE AND TIME: Srebrenica, a prison located between the Town Hall and the
Courthouse, January - February 1993.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: During a Moslem attack on Serbs in the village of
Kusici, the witness, a student of the second year of high school was on holiday
when she received a wound in her left hip while feeding the cattle with her
mother. After that they were captured by the Moslems and taken away. But, since
she was unable to walk on account of the wound, her mother carried her for two
kilometres and then she was loaded on an oxen cart, took to Srebrenica and put
into the prison between the Town Hall and the Courthouse.
She stayed in the prison from January 16 till February 6, 1993. She lay on
a stretcher and was completely unable to move. During the above stated period she had her wound dressed only once and was given a few pills.
She was not taken to the hospital which at the time existed in Srebrenica
and was providing services.
She and other inmates were given food only once a day consisting of a slice of bread and beans soup. The water was supplied in the least possible quantities depending on the mood the guards.
They were not provided with any facilities for washing or taking a bath.
Men were imprisoned in the adjacent room wherefrom guards' curses and
wailing and howling from the inmates being beaten could frequently be heard.
Owing to the effects of the inflicted wound and the untimely medical care,
she had to spend four months in a hospital after the exchange and her leg
remained shorter by 5 cm.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Zulko Turusovic, the prison commander in Srebrenica.
EVIDENCE: The minutes from the hearing of the witness of August 30, 1994
filed with the Committee under No. 378/94-5.

V-052
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing and inhuman treatment of the
wounded and the sick
PLACE AND TIME: Jajce, 28-29 October 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Djura Djukic, born 1904, father's name Jova, was alone
in his flat on No. 9, Berta Kucera Str. because he was too old and too sick.
Around 5:00 a.m. the Croatian-Moslem forces were retreating from Jajce in the
course of liberation of the town.
Knowing that the old man was alone in his flat, the Hasics who were his
neighbours and who knew his family situation well, entered the flat and planted
a bomb under the couch where Djukic way lying. The subsequent explosion injured
Djukic severely and caused damage of the flat.
Djukic's grandson found his grandfather unconscious and transported him
immediately to the Banja Luka Medical Centre where a part of his left foot was
amputated.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Miralem Hasic, born on February 5, 1960 at Jezero, the commune of Jajce, father's name Hamzo,
2. Haris Hasic, born on November 4, 1961 at Jezero, the commune of Jajce,
father's name Hamzo.
EVIDENCE: A document of the Basic Court in Jajce No. Ki. 10/93 filed with
the Committee under No. 591/94-1.

V-053
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Deliberate killing and inhuman treatment of the
wounded and the sick
PLACE AND TIME: The village of Rika near Jajce, July 9th, 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Members of the Croatian-Moslem military forces stormed
the village of Rika on July 9th, after the civilian population had fled before
them.
Petra Rodic, born on September 2, 1913 at Volari, the commune of Sipovo,
father's name Boza, was unable to move because of her age and sickness, so she
stayed behind all alone in her house.
She was killed in her house and her body was found with a bullet wound in
her head.
Everything inside the house was ransacked.
After liberation, her body was buried at the Kubrovaca cemetery.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Members of the Croatian-Moslem military forces.
EVIDENCE: Documents from the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office at Jajce Ktn. 19/94 filed with the Committee under No. 591/94-2.

VIII-032
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, graveyards,
cultural and historical monuments.
PLACE AND TIME: Karlovac, December 25, 1993.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On Catholic Christmas, at 04.30 a.m., a large quantity
of explosive was planted and activated in the southern and eastern part of the
building - seat of the Gornji Karlovac Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church,
and part of the building was demolished.
The southern part of the building, overlooking the Mazuraniceva Street, was torn town from the roof to the cellar. The eastern part, overlooking the Radiceva Street, was also torn down, but not completely.
The historical and cultural values located in the cellar have remained
covered and inaccessible.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Unknown Croats.
EVIDENCE: Documentation of the Serbian Orthodox Church - report by
archpriest Milan Mrkalj, filed with the Committee under No. 468/1-94.

VIII-033
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, graveyards,
cultural and historical monuments.
PLACE AND TIME: Osijek, 21 December 1994.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Orthodox Church Resurrection of Most Holy Mother of
Jesus, known as "Slavonska Lazarica" among Serbs in Slavonia, was damaged by the planted explosive.
The church was first mined in early 1991.
The same church had been torn down in World War II.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Unknown members of terrorist organization "Croatian liberation movement
(HOP)".
EVIDENCE: Documentation filed with the Committee under No. 729/94.

VIII-034
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, graveyards,
cultural and historical monuments.
PLACE AND TIME: Capljina, early May 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The interior of Serbian Orthodox Church Assumption of
Christ in Capljina was put on fire and gravely damaged. The altar and the icons
were burnt down, and all church relics were thrown into disorder or taken away.
The top of the belfry was torn down. A mortar shell hit the bell-tower at
the roof height, and the roof was broken by mortar shells.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. "Svabo", soldier of the Croatian Defense Forces (HOS) from Slavonia.
EVIDENCE: Evidence in the documentation of the Committee under No. 703/94
and 486/94.

VIII-035
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Destruction of places of worship, graveyards,
cultural and historical monuments.
PLACE AND TIME: Prebilovci near Capljina, mid June 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Having taken over the Serbian village of Prebilovci,
Croatian soldiers systematically mined Serbian houses and Serbian cultural and
historical monuments. They also mined the Cultural Center and the Primary School in Prebilovci.
The Memorial Church and the ossuary crypt with the remains of 4000 Serbs
that had been killed by Ustashi in World War II and thrown in twelve pits in
Herzegovina or had been killed by being thrown in those pits, which the people
of Herzegovina took out in 1991 and placed in the church crypt, were torn down
by the explosive which Croatian soldiers planted three time.
The first two times, they did not succeed in tearing down the Memorial
Ossuary because it was built of reinforced concrete, but they succeeded the third time, when they used the so called "sow" bomb of 1800 kilograms of explosive and another large quantity of explosive which they planted around the church. They activate the
explosive by remote controller.
After the explosion, a special team of experts of "Jadrantrans" from Split, using 4 "Raba" dump trucks, an "ULT" loader and a dredge with metal shell of 1500 kg, removed the remains and leveled the ground. This was done in three days.
The workers were dressed in camouflage uniforms and stayed in the house of
Sejo Tabakovic at first and with Vinko Cemeras afterwards.
During that time, the Croatian authorities had forbidden any access to
Prebilovci.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Pero Markovic, from Gnjiliste by birth, President of the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) in Capljina;
2. Stanko Matic, from Gnjiliste by birth, former JNA general, general-major of the Croatian Army;
3. Zlatko Vegar, born in 1965 in Capljina, father's name Ilija, mother's
name Iva, soldier of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO);
4. Mile Djemeras;
5. Vinko Djemeras, born in 1940 in Tasovcici, father's name Ljubo, soldier
of "Knez Domagoj" Croatian Army brigade;
6. Unknown workers of "Jadran-trans" from Split and
soldiers of 116th Rijecko-Ljubuska HVO brigade
EVIDENCE: Documentation filed with the Committee under No. 703/94 and
436/94.
NOTE: Addition to report VIII - 004.

IX. ETHNIC CLEANSING

IX-102
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Ferhatlije, near Pazaric, August 15 to October 28, 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness was staying in her house in Ferhatlije, with her two little children, mother-in law and father-in-law. On August 15, her
neighbor Seid Mehmedic brought Blackshirts from Jablanica to her house, and
arrogantly forced her and her family out. When entering the house, Zlatko, one
of the Blackshirts, held a whip in his hand, resembling a leather-stick, to which leather knotted belts were fastened. He took out a knife and started threatening and telling them that what he loved best was cutting throats of little children in front of
their mother's eyes. He had a liter of vinjak (alcohol) with him.
When the witness asked for protection and the Moslem police patrol,
consisting of Fadil Isic and Nevzet Kazazovic, policemen from the police station of Pazaric arrived, they suggested that she should leave the house and move
somewhere else. The witness and her family moved to their neighbor's house the
same evening.
On September 8, at 21.00 hrs., four persons in uniforms and one in civilian clothes burst in that house. They beat the owner's wife, and took a gold ring
from another woman that was with them in the house. They asked for gold and
money, threatening that they were going to slaughter everybody.
Throughout that period, Mehmedic kept coming and threatening that he was
going to kill them all. On one occasion, he encouraged women, children and the
elderly to trough stones at the witness, calling her "chetnik-woman". Some
passers-by saved her from that.
After that incident, Mehmedic and his son Fikret burned down the witness's
house.
The witness escaped to another house, with her children. The Blackshirts
from Jablanica continued to come to that house, too. One, named Ismet, threatened that he was going to kill her and her children.
The witness's neighbor, Joka Bratic, was taken to Pazaric by force, where
she was kept for 4-5 days. When she was brought back the village, she was
completely out of her mind and one morning, she was found hanged in the garage.
It was never established whether it was a suicide or murder.
Unknown Moslem Army soldiers slaughtered Spiro Bratic in September.
Because of what she was going through, the witness left Ferhatlije on
October 28, 1992, and is now living as a refugee.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Seid Mehmedic, son of Bajra, aged about 55,
2. Fikret Mehmedic, son of Seid, aged about 30,
3. N. Zlatko, allegedly teacher in Jablanica, a Blackshirt,
4. Ismet and other soldiers of Moslem Army and Blackshirts.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness filed with the Committee under No.
412/94-10.

IX-103
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Bradina and Celebici near Konjic, April 20 - September 7,
1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness, M., lived and worked in Konjic until April
20, 1992, when the headmaster of the school where she worked told her not to come to work any more because she was a Serb.
That day, her husband told her that the hotel near their house was full of
soldiers of Croatian Defense Forces (HOS) and that they had to flee, after which they left for Bradina, where her husband's family lived.
However, Moslems and Croats had placed barricades on the roads to Bradina
and mined the tunnel on the main road to Konjic, making it impossible to get out of the village.
Strong Moslem-Croat forces attacked Bradina on 25 May. The witness and her
family hid near the village. The next day, she saw houses in Bradina burning and mortar shells falling. The witness and her family remained hidden until May 29,
when they returned to the village.
Near the Bradina primary school, Croats and Moslems stopped them and led
them into a classroom where a large number of Bradina villagers were also
detained.
Witness M. and three other women were then taken to a detention camp in
Celebici. They were lined-up, their personal data were written down, and they
were taken to a small room in the registration house. The witness was subjected
to interrogation several times, during which various threats were made against
her.
Witness M. was told by a Serb woman that she had been raped before the
witness was brought to the detention camp.
At first, the food was not bad, but later the food was scarce and the
witness lost a lot of weight.
She saw that men were kept lined up for hours with their heads turned
towards the wall, during which time they were harassed. At night, she heard them being beaten and groaning with pain.
On June 16, the witness was released from the detention camp. She was
handed down a decision according to which the reason for her detention was
cooperation with aggressors and her movement was restricted to the village of
Bradina.
The Moslems and Croats gathered the remaining Serbs from Bradina on July
12 and placed them in the school. They shot at the school for two nights,
breaking the windows and showering the walls. The first night, they burst into
the classroom and started beating the people near them.
They forced the children to fight with each others, and a Moslem said that
they should all be put on fire.
Later on, men and women were taken out to be beaten. Milan Kuljanin was
beaten up so hard that he died in Konjic 3-4 days after having been released.
Disabled G., who had only one leg, was also harassed.
While witness M. was once holding her one-and-half years old
grand-daughter, "Kravar" ("Cowboy) hit her on her neck with a stick. He hit so
hard that she dropped the child.
Witness M. was released, with her children, the fourth day. She left for
Konjic, because her house in Bradina had been burnt down. Some people had moved
into her apartment in Konjic, so she went to her relatives'. She stayed there
until September 7, 1992, when a Croat, whom she paid DM 350, helped her move to
the Serb-controlled territory.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Pera Barundzic, member of Croatian Defense Forces (HOS),
2. Unknown soldier, aged about 30, tall, slim,
3. Pavao Mucic, Celebici head of the detention camp,
4. N. Jahic,
4. Mirsad Subasic,
6. Sefik Delalic,
7. Azim Delijic,
8. Goran Lokas, who worked as a lawyer in Konjic before the war,
9. Spago, called "Kravar" and other Croat and Moslem soldiers.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness before the investigating judge filed
with the Committee under No.412/94-16. (M) 412/94-20, 412/94-21, 412/94-25,
412/94-30 and 412/94-27.

IX-104
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Cekrcici, the municipality of Visoko, 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness worked in Visoko and lived in the village
of Cekrcici, populated 95% by Serbs.
On May 3, the village of Cekrcici was attacked by mortar fire by Moslems
from the territory of Gracanica. B., a civilian, was wounded and some houses were damaged. During May, the Moslems shelled Cekrcici several more times.
Pensioner Vojno Maksimovic was killed on June 28, and the witness's wife,
Dragica Zivkovic was killed on June 30. They were both killed by Kemal Karacic,
who was even boastful about it.
The following villagers were killed by snipers: Milojka Micic, wife of
Sreta, Dobrica Miric, father's name Janko, pensioner Ranko Mivukicevic, father's name Mica and Miodrag Zivkovic, father's name Veljko.
Killed by mortar shelling were: wife of Ljubo Skopljak, Stanojko Dabic,
Dobrica Miric, father's name Drago, Miso Miric, father's name Slavko, Miodrag
Lalic, father's name Mladja, aged 15, Novica Skopljak, Zivko Lalic, Stojan
Kovacevic, Brani Kokorus, Vito Vukovic, Nikola Djokic, etc.
For the said reasons, 80% of the Serbs from the village of Cekrcici had to
move out of the village and are now living as refugees.
Some houses, as well as other buildings, were burnt down.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Kemal Karacic, who had worked as truck operator before the war and then
had a burger-shop in Visoko, across the hotel,
2. Unknown Moslem soldiers.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness before the investigating judge, filed
with the Committee under No. 412/94-1.

IX-105
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Bradina, near Konjic, May 25, 1992 - March 11, 1993.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness lived in Bradina with her family. On May 25
Bradina was attacked by Moslems and Croats. They occupied Donja Bradina on May
25 and Gornja Bradina on May 26. A large number of houses, including the
witness's, were burned.
The population was gathered, women and children separated from men, and
while they were harassed and beaten with sticks, riflebutts, legs, arms, etc.,
their identification cards, gold jewelry, money, watches and other valuable were taken from them.
The witness was put in a small bus with some elderly women and driven to
a dressing room of the Musala Sports Center in Konjic, which had been turned into a detention camp. Many women, old and young, with children, were kept there.
During the three-day stay in the detention camp, they were not given any
food or water. Some women were taken out and the witness assumes that they were
raped.
Upon release, the witness left for Donje Selo, to Ceda Cedjez's house. They were allowed to return to Bradina later.
On St.Peter's Day, July 12, after some Moslem soldiers had been shot, the
Moslems again gathered women and children in Bradina and placed them in the
Bradina primary school classrooms. There were about thirty of them in each of the classrooms. They were harassed every day and some women were beaten. The witness points out that Mira Mrkajic, mentally disturbed, was particularly beaten and insulted. The
second day, they shot for about 10 minutes at the school where Serbs were placed. Three days later, they released them.
The witness's father was killed in the Celebici prison. His body was
brought back together with the body of Petko Gligorovic and they were buried in
the mass grave in Bradina.
The Moslems and Croats gathered all boys from the village, including 13 to
16 years olds, to dig the mass grave, where some 60 people were buried. The
witness was told by Mihajlo Mrkajic (aged 20), Miroslav Miljanin (20) and
Branislav Miljanic (17) that after having been released from the Celebici
detention camp they dug a grave in Bradina and buried dead bodies in it.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Unknown Moslem and Croat soldiers,
2. Zdravko Mucic, called "Pavao", head of detention camps in Celebici and
in Musala, aged about 40, tall and strong, baldish.
EVIDENCE: Committee No. 412/94-17.

IX-106
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Bjelovcina, Konjic, May 20, 1992 - June 9, 1993.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On May 20, 1992, the villagers of Bjelovcina, having
learnt that Croats and Moslems were about to attack their village, fled to a
nearby forest. When the Croats and Moslem burst into the village, they searched
the houses but found nobody. They started searching the woods and caught Slobodan Babic (the witness's husband), Novica Ivkovic, Boro Ivkovic and Mirko Babic.
These four men were beaten and forced to call the others to come back to
the village, under threats that, if they refused, they would all be killed. When the villagers returned, 17 women, children and elderly men were placed in the
witness's house and the Moslems and Croats beat the four men before their eyes.
The next day, they were taken to Konjic on foot, down the road where there
was fighting. The Serbs were put in front, as a live shield, and the others
walked behind them.
When they left the village, the witness was released, to return home and
take care of her immobile mother-in-law, whom they were not able to take along. The witness learnt that the others were taken to the detention camp in the Musala Sports Center, and were released five days later. The four men who had been caught first, inc
luding the witness's husband, were not released.
A month later, Moslems and Croats burst into the house of the witness's
father Scepo Gotovac and took him to the Celebici detention camp. The witness
learnt that her husband had also been transferred to the Celebici camp.
During the following two months, which the witness spent in the village,
Moslems and Croats burst into Serb houses every evening, harassed them,
threatened, took their belongings. One of the witness's cows was taken away and
the other was burnt together with the stable.
After that, the witness left for her father's house in Konjic. During her
stay their, her 18-years old son was forced several times to carry food the
Moslem and Croat positions and do other jobs for them.
The witness learnt that her husband had been transferred from the Celebici
detention camp to "March 3rd" Primary School where a "hospital" was improvised,
because he had been beaten up and burnt. The witness managed to visit him, but
could not speak with him because he was unconscious. She saw that his entire body was black and his arms were covered with blisters caused by burning. His tongue had beet cut too. Five days later, her husband died, and it was only two days after his death
that she was given his body, to bury him.
The witness's father also died as a consequence of beating in the detention camp. When his body was delivered, she .pa
saw injuries all over it, and a cockade was nailed in his forehead. They
buried him with it.
For the said reasons, the witness had to flee her native land and is now
living as a refugee.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Mithat Pirkic, called "Mitke", aged about 40, medium height, brown hair, wore glasses,
2. Unknown Moslem and Croat soldiers.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of Bosa Babic before the investigating judge, filed
with the Committee under No. 412/94-18.

IX-107
DESIGNATION OF CRIME: Ethnic cleansing
PLACE AND TIME: Sarajevo, 1986 - June 28, 1992.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The witness worked in "GRAS", Sarajevo, as manager of
Common Services Department. In 1986, systematic persecution of Serbs started,
especially those on managerial posts. At first it was done through (communist)
party organizations. At that time, the witness was often visited by inspectors
from various inspectorates or from the Secretariat of the Interior. Finally, a
"referendum of confidence" was organized. Whether the witness and four other
Serbs can occupy managerial posts was put to vote. The witness was thus replaced, since Moslems were a majority.
After the Party of Democratic Action came to power, provocations were
intensified, and after the war conflict broke out, Serbs started to be taken to
the police and arrested. Moslems spread strong propaganda in order to intimidate Serbs. A large number of Serb families fled Sarajevo.
The witness stated that when a mortar shell once fell near his house, the
news was spread that he had been the "Chetnik" who had told the Serbs which
building to target. Two Moslems were permanently on guard in front of the
building where the witness lived. Resid Karajica was one of them. Before the said shell fell, the two moved away to a safe distance, and after it fell, they joined the others in rendering help. The witness believes that shelling of Serb-owned houses was u
sed to exert pressure on the Serbs to leave Sarajevo.
The witness once saw his neighbor Seid Karajica, son of Resid, carrying a
sniper and leaving the house for the combat position.
Serbs were arrested in groups, taken to the Kosevo stadium to be tortured
and molested. Rumor had it that carcasses floated on the Miljacka river.
The witness was invited several times to join the Moslem army, which he
refused.
On June 24, 1992, when the witness was in front of his building, three men
came, two in camouflage uniforms and one in civilian clothes and asked him to
come with them to the "Viktor Bubanj" army post for interrogation. He was allowed to take his identification card and glasses. He was placed in a vehicle. He saw that he was not being taken to the army barracks but across the Miljacka river to a skyscrape
r near kindergarten in the Otoka community.
He was taken to a room where he was searched and everything that he had in
his pockets was taken. He was given some paper and was told to write a statement. They opened a door and pushed him down the stairs leading to the cellar, hitting him with rifle-butt and leg in his back so hard that the witness fell down.
He fell in a room with one candle lit, with no windows, with concrete floor and a gully-hole in it. The witness saw Mica Crnogorac and Radovan Skoko, his
colleagues from "GRAS" in that room, and a 16-year old boy and an elderly man
from Nevesinje.
Soon after, "Zuti" (The Yellow), who took part in his detention, and two
other men, entered the room. One of them was a 20-year old Gypsy. They lined-up
everyone except the witness along the wall and started beating them with baseball sticks. Those who fell were forced to get up, for the beating to continue. Ten minutes later, the three of them left. The witness was taken out and interrogated, brought bac
k to the cellar and ordered to write a statement. They kept taking the papers from him and giving him new ones.
Soon after, three other men came in, lined everyone up against the wall and beat them again. The witness was beaten up this time.
The beating continued day and night, with only short breaks. People who
beat them changed. During the beating, they laughed and told insults.
The second day, the Gypsy entered the cellar and offered them bread. The
others hesitated, but the witness, who was hungry since he had not been given any food or water, approached him and broke off a piece of bread. Then the Gypsy yelled obscenities and started beating him with hands and legs and stepping on
him. He injured the witness's left ankle so that the witness was not able to walk for some time.
The third day after the witness arrived in the cellar, it was raining and
feces flooded in. The Gypsy entered the cellar and forced the witness and Mica
Crnogorac to crawl through the feces, and a friend of his shot in-between them
with the gun, and beat Tomo Mocevic, who had been brought in in the meantime,
almost paralyzed. The clothes soaked with feces dried on them.
The boy was the first to be taken away from the cellar, then the elderly
man from Nevesinje and Radovan Skoko. The other three, and the witness, were
taken to the building of the Privredna Banka branch offices in Jovana Cvijica
Street. They were placed in an empty room bearing the sign "detention".
In the evening, a girl was brought in, and the next day, another woman and
some men. They were all Serbs. One was brought in because he was a player of the gusle (popular instrument). People were often taken out and brought back in.
A green beret soldier leaned the hunting rifle barrel on the witness's
chest, threatening that he was going to kill him, using obscenities and insulting him, and then moved away and pulled the trigger, but the rifle was empty.
The witness was also intimidated by putting a knife under his throat,
putting something in his ears, threatening they were going to cut off his ears.
This was happening in Mile's office, in the presence of Sava. Two days later, on June 28, the witness was released, on condition that he reported to them every
day.
INDICATIONS CONCERNING PERPETRATOR:
1. Resad Karajica, a Moslem
2. Seid Karajica, son of Resad, a Moslem, aged about 30,
3. Kenan Laucevic, military police commander,
4. "Zuti" (The Yellow), aged about 35, rather tall, thin, almost yellow
light hair, taxi-driver from Sarajevo,
5. Unknown Gypsy, aged about 20,
6.. Unknown "green beret" soldier, aged about 25, very tall and thin, brown
hair, ugly nose,
7. Mile N., aged 40, medium height, half-gray,
8. major Savo, former JNA major, somewhat taller than medium height, has
a lump on his forehead above the right eyebrow that looks like fatty tissue.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of Zeljko Rasevic given to the investigating judge,
filed with the Committee under No. 412/94-19.

1.1. Various forms of insults to Serb civilians
1.1.1. When hostilities began, the couple M. from Vitkovic (Gorazde) found
themselves in the home of their daughter B. and son-in-law K. in Gorazde. Moslem soldiers used to barge into the house, as well as into the apartments of other
Serbs, forced them to get out, held them at the gun point for hours, called them "sons of chetniks" and insulted and abused them in numerous other ways. They
threatened to kill them with fire-arms or stab them with knives and to burn the
house. They raided the house and took away food, all home appliances, including
the telephone, as well as bedding and clothing.
Moslem soldiers threatened the couple M. twice with execution. The third
time a Moslem soldier took out the husband M., put him in front of the garage,
pushed the gun barrel into his mouth, saying that their way of killing is
different than that of the Partisans, so that his head and brain would simply
burst out. He asked M. about his relation with Draza Mihajlovic and what he (the witness) had been doing in the Partisan army.
They were taken out of the house and forcibly led to other premises.
Together with many other Serbs, they spent some time in a building by the Donji
most on the Drina, closely watched by an army guard.
They were subjected to insults and abuse not only by the Moslem authorities and soldiers, but also by civilian Moslems, who threw stones and other objects
at them, while children used slings to break their windows.
From an apartment, in which they were forcibly located, the witnesses saw
a group of about 15 armed Moslems pour gasoline and burn the house of their
daughter B. and son-in-law K., which was in the Marsala Tita street.
Their apartment in Vitkovici was illegally taken over by the Moslem Hasan
Hrelja.
As a result of violence to which she was exposed and constant insecurity,
the wife M.'s health was seriously affected - both her heart and nerves were
severely damaged.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the witnesses' testimony (the couple M.) in the
Committee files, under Nos. 594/95-15 and 16.
1.1.2. On june 18, 1992, an armed group of Moslems (Azem Obarcanin, Sejo
Kanlic, Edin Pita and Celjo, nick-named Kako) forced the front door and broke
into building no. 18 in the Mose Pijade street, and, looking for Serbs, ransacked the apartment of person A., who escaped through the window (the apartment was on the ground floor).
From another apartment they took away the couple H., with hands up,
together with P. and R. from another wing.
They told them they were taken to be shot.
Several hours later they were set free at the urging of a Moslem employed
by the state police.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
l. Obarcanin Azem, nicknamed "Caza", from Gorazde (Vranjska Mahala),
2. Kanlic Sejo, from Gorazde, inspector in the township administration,
3. Pita Edin, from Gorazde, a worker in the company "Pobjeda" in Gorazde,
4. Celjo, nick named Kako.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of witnesses M. and H. in the Committee
files under no.440/94, 11 and 17.
1.1.3. After the armed conflicts in Gorazde had begun, Moslem soldiers
searched the apartment of H. in Gorazde (Sandzackih brigada str. no. 13) five
times, in brief intervals, allegedly looking for arms and a radio station.
On another occasion, a Moslem soldier whose last name is Kule, came to the
witness's apartment and with rifle butt struck the witness's daughter S. in the
back. When H. told him that he had often wined and dined at their home before,
he left the apartment.
Data on the perpetrator: Kule, a Moslem solder from Gorazde.
1.1.4. The apartment belonging to S. in Marsala Tita str. no.28 in Gorazde
was searched many times by Moslem soldiers, who cursed her and called her
"chetnik", threatening to cut her throat and saying that there was no life for
Serbs in Gorazde.
One day a Moslem soldier by the name of Bezgrob came to take S. away. He
found her at her Moslem neighbour's, who prevented him taking her away.
Data on the perpetrator: Bezgrob, a Moslem solier.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness S. in the Committee file
under no. 440/94,25.
1.1.5. Moslem soldiers and policemen searched the apartment of the couple
R. in Gorazde five times and took away all valuable things from it.
At the end of June 1992 Moslems soldiers took away the couple R. from their apartment and together with another 50 Serbs put them in the corridor of hotel
"Balkan". There they held them for three days, threatening to slaughter them and telling them they would soon be dead.
Moslem soldiers brought the body of the dead Serb soldier B, the son of the family R., put it in the street and for two days gathered around that body,
singing and dancing.
In the second half of July 1992, Moslem soldiers demanded that the witness
R. declare in front of TV Sarajevo cameras that the Serbs were to blame for the
war. He refused to do so, and several days later was taken away for interrogation by the Moslem policemen. He was interrogated by the agent Sehovic, who made obsene remarks about his mother, and when he (R.) said that he was citizen of Yugoslavia, the age
nt slapped his face.
In September 1992, when the witness R. went to the Town Council to ask
permission to leave Gorazde, the guard Borovac slaped his face two or three
times, struck him several times with his fist on the breast and kicked him,
forcing him to go back.
The couple R. lived in their apartment as if under house arrest, forbidden
to move and communicate with other people and tortured by hunger.
At the time when Moslems from Visegrad came to Gorazde, the apartment of
the family R. was broken into by four Moslem soldiers from the unit of Ahmet
Sejdic. Among them was Avdo, the son-in-law of Alic. He later moved into the
family R's apartment. As soon as he entered the apartment, Avdo, cursing, asked
for a knife, threatening to kill the witness R. He searched the apartment and
took away several watches, one knap-sack, a car battery and several smaller
things.
One night in the spring 1994, about 11 p.m., the apartment of the family
R. was broken into by four Moslem soldiers, including Alic and his son-in-law
Avdo. For several hours they maltreated and beat, both with hands and feet, the
witness R., her mother and her husband. They threatened to slaughter them,
putting knives under their throats. As a result of this beating the husband had
many swellings and bruises all over his body. After beating and torturing them,
they locked the family R. in one room, while the wives of some of these soldiers took away from the apartment all valuable things: a TV set, a VCR, a walkman,
Hi-Fi, tape deck, etc. Just before dawn, the family R. was thrown out into the
street, and Alic and his family moved into their apartment.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Ahmet Sejdic, from Visegrad, a commander of the Moslem military unit,
2. Alic, a Moslem soldier,
3. Avdo, a Moslem soldier,
4. Sehovic, a police agent

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5. Borovac, a guard in the Headquarters of the town of Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the family R., in the Committee files under Nos. 440/94-8 and 594/94-14.
1.1.6. The witness S., a Serb married to a Moslem called Senad Bujak from
Gorazde, from the beginning of armed clashes till her escape to Serb territory
(July 1994), was maltreated and beaten by her husband Senad, who became a Moslem soldier. Coming home drunk, he would beat her, usually striking her with his
fists in the small of her back and cursed her "vlaska" (Serb) mother. She begged him to kill her and put an end to suffering, but he would beat her even more and finally force her to have sexual intercourse with him.
Data on perpetrator: Senad Bujak, from Gorazde, a Moslem soldier.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of testimony of the witness B., in the Committee files
under no. 440/94-10.
1.1.7. In May 1992, Moslem soldiers evicted a group of Serbs from their
apartments and homes in the Colony "1 May" in Gorazde and put them in two
buildings under guard. Among these Serbs was the witness M. The confinement of
these Serbs, in total isolation, lasted 12 days, after which they were allowed
to return to their homes, provided that in the meantime, they were not taken by
the Moslems.
Since the witness M.'s apartment had been hit by a shell, she approached
Hasa, a deputy mayor of the local community of Efendici, but Hasa refused to talk to her.
In addition to this, the family M. was subjected to various insults and
humilations (called "chetniks" etc.), and suffered from hunger, since there was
no food.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of testimony of the witness M., in the Committee files
under no. 205/95-3.
1.1.8. At the beginning of armed clashes, Moslem soldiers forbade Serbs to
leave their apartments. The building in which the family of the witness B. lived was controlled by a soldier called Bekto.
On one occasion, when the witness B. went out into the street and met with
T., a uniformed soldier called Kustirica approached them and told them that both of them, as well as other Serbs, would be killed if Serb soldiers failed to stop shooting from the nearby hills and that it was the order of Hadze (mayor of
Gorazde).
Some twenty days after the beginning of armed clashes, Betko took M. and
the witness B. from the apartment, and together with J., I., and Z. put him into the cellar of a building next door, belonging to Bosko Bjelakovic. There they
spent two months in isolation, and after that were taken back to their
apartments. On April 24, 1994 the apartment belonging to M. and the witness B.
was broken into by Anel Berinac from Visegrad, with three more Moslem soldiers.
He forced them to leave the apartment in five minutes, so that they went to Z.
Berinac with two other Moslems went later to Z.'s apartment and threatened
the witness B. that he would kill her, saying that he had found a pistol and some bombs in her apartment, which was not true.
The witness B. and her mother M. left Gorazde on August 22, 1994, with
severely impaired health due to hard life, hunger and mental suffering caused by constant threats and tortures.
The family L., the parents of M., were driven away from their apartment in
the Marsala Tita str. no. 13 in Gorazde and together with other Serbs locked up
in a building which was the target of artillery shelling. Moslem soldiers
prevented them from seeking refuge from the shells in the basement of the
building.
When the family L. returned, they found their apartment completely raided
(food and all valuable things had been taken away). Isolated, without food,
deprived of contacts with their family, they died in 1993. Moslems provoked the
witness B. and two other Serbs who buried the dead, throwing stones at them and
saying: "One dog less".
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Beko, a Moslem soldier from Visegrad,
2. Kustirica, a MOslem soldier,
3. Anel Berinac, from Visegrad, a Moslem soldier.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness B., in the Committee
files under no. 440/94-4.
1.1.9. On June 26 1992, Moslems in uniform drove away the witness S. from
her aprtment in the 1. maja street no. 15 in Gorazde, and took her to a former
canteen, where about 75 Serbs were already being held in captivity. They were
held there for three days and threatened that they would all be killed. When S.
returned to her apartment, she found the door forced and all valuable things
taken away.
In April 1994, Moslems in uniform drove her out of the apartment again, and until she managed to escape from Gorazde (July 8, 1994) she lived with 16 other
persons in the house of a Sebian woman.
As all other Serbs, she also suffered from lack of food, since they
received no aid, as opposed to Moslems.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness S., in the Committee file under no. 440/94-6.
1.1.10. In July 1992, armed persons in uniform drove the witness U. out of
his apartment in the 1. maja str. no. 34 in Gorazde and took him to another
building in the same street, where he was put, together with seven more Serbs,
into a room measuring 4 x 4 metres. Apart from a girl aged about twenty, the rest of them were mostly elderly people.
There they kept them for 15 days. They provided no food, but took them
occasionally to their own apartments to search for some food, if there was
anything left.
When they came home, the witness U. found his apartment robbed. Later on,
the Moslem family Isakovic from the village of Gojcevic moved into his apartment. Before moving in, a girl from that family hurried him to vacate the apartment, saying that all "Vlasi" (Serbs) should be killed.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness U. in the Committee files under no. 440/94-7.
1.1.11. In mid-July 1992, members of the Moslem army and police forced a
considerable number of Serbs in Gorazde to vacate their apartments, so that
Moslem refugees could be accomodated in them. About 75 of them, men, women and
children, aged between 7 and 70, were taken to a building in the Mose Pijade str. across the street from the building of the state police. They were squeezed into four apartments, so that there were up to 12 of them in one room. They were guarded by 4-5 p
olicemen, who prohibited them from contacting each other.
While throwing out the witness H. and his family from their apartment,
Hodzic Sefko, head of the police patrol, read to H. the decision of the War
Presidency, signed by Hadzo Efendic, on the formation of so-called "Center for
Isolation of Serbs". The alleged purpose of this was to protect Serbs from Moslem extremists and to prevent Serbs in Gorazde from cooperating with Serb units outside Gorazde.
In this camp the Serbs were held for about three months, in highly
inadequate sanitary and other conditions. Once a day they were given boiled
unsalted nettle, and every eight days a piece of bread. They slept on the bare
floor, since there was no furniture.
The imprisoned Serbs approached Ibro Causevic, president of the Red Cross
of Gorazde, asking to be given food as humanitarian aid. He showed them the
decree of the War Presidency, signed by Hadzo Efendic, stating that the Red Cross should not give Serbs in islation any food, since food for them was provided from other sources.
The Serbs confined in this camp were exhausted due to severe conditions of
life. Their health was seriously damaged and they suffered from excessive lose
of weight (for example, the witness H. lost 41 kg while in the camp). Two
sisters, aged 55 and 60, one of whom was named Slavka, both died while interned
in this camp.
The camp was located about 150 meters from the front line and was,
accordingly, exposed to frequent shellings from both sides. The interned Serbs
asked one policeman to convey to the chief of the police, Ibro Merkez, their
appeal to let them hide in the corridor of the basement of the building during
heavy fighting. The policeman came back with Merkez's message: it is better for
them to shut up, or else he would personally come up and tie them all to the
window sills.
Cedo Jovanovic, a teacher from Gorazde, was killed by a granade, while five more Serbs were wounded: Vlatko Vojinovic (shrapnel in the leg), Rastko
Vukmanovic (neck), Slavko Popovic (neck), Vlado Nedimovic and another man.
When they were let out of the camp, the interned Serbs did not have
anywhere to go back to, as their apartments had been occupied by Moslems. They
had to manage as well as they could.
On getting out of the camp, H. pleaded with chief of police Merkez to help
him get back his apartment, occupied in the meantime by Fadil Fakovic. Merkez
told him that the apartment was appropriated by the War Presidency, and that he
- Merkez - only implemented the decisions of the Presidency.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Hadzo Efendic, from Gorazde, chairman of the SDA, mayor of Gorazde,
president of the War Presidency in Gorazde, main organizer and inspirer of crimes against Serbs,
2. Rijad Rascic, from Gorazde, economist, deputy chairman of the SDA and
member of the Moslem War Presidency in Gorazde,
3. Enver Borovina, from Gorazde, born in Ustikolina, veterinarian, member
of the War Presidency,
4. Hasa Kuljuh, from Gorazde, economist, chief of Economy Department of the county of Gorazde, member of the War Presidency in Gorazde,
5. Fehim Pleh, from Gorazde, awyer, formerly secretary of the county of
Gorazde, member of Moslem War Presidency in Gorazde,
6. Ibro Merkez, chief of police in Gorazde, organizer of the "reserve
police force", the person who implemented the decisions of the Moslem War
Presidency in Gorazde,
7. Sefko Hodzic, member of the police force in Gorazde,
8. Sasa Dragas, policeman in the Gorazde police force,
9. Izet Klovo, policeman in the Gorazde police force,
10. Nuzur Borcak, policeman in the Gorazde police force,
11. Subasic, policeman in the Gorazde police force.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of testimony in the Committee files under Nrs. 440/94-11, 12, 13, 17, 18 and 42, 36/95 and 462/94.
1.1.12. While the witness Z. was in the camp in the Mosa Pijade street,
across the street from the Gorazde Police, her apartment was occupied by a Moslem family. In the fall of 1992 she was allowed to go back to her apartment. Then, in June 1993 three armed Moslems forced the witness Z. to leave her apartment. She found refug
e with the family E., where she used to stay overnight before, fearing that she might be assaulted in her own apartment.
Moslems used to assault Serbs frequently, when they would go out in search
for some water or food. They called the Serbs "criminals", while women were
"wives of chetniks", etc. At night Moslems fired bursts into the windows of
apartments inhabited by Serbs.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness Z. in the Committee file under Nr.
462/94.
1.1.13. In April 1994 Moslem police organized a camp for internment of
Serbs in the home of the Nedimovic family in Gorazde. There were about 50
interned Serbs, constantly under guard. The living conditions were extremely
hard. They had only one meal a day and a piece of bread. The interned Serbs were exposed to all kinds of threats and abuse. They were called "chetniks", while the house in which they were jailed was called "the zoo for Serbs".
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Azem Obrcanin, from Gorazde,
2. Jasko Jusic, from Hubijer (near Gorazde)
3. Ramiz Koso, a Moslem soldier.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimonies of the witnesses M., B., L., R., and
Z. in the Committee files under Nrs. 440/94-11, 13, 17 and 42, as well as 594/94 and 462/94.
1.1.14. From the beginning of armed clashes the witness S. from Vitkovici
(a suburb of Gorazde), just like other Serbs, lived in constant fear of the
Moslems, since he did not enjoy any protection as a citizen. Police searched his apartment twice, and the same was done by members of military units.
Salko Malicevic, a Moslem who worked with the witness S. in the same firm,
told him on one occasion that he had been given the order to liquidate him, but
that he had no intention of doing that, since he was not capable of murder (he
left Gorazde eventually).
During 1993 the witness S. was taken to forced labor together with some
other Serbs. They were made to cut wood, to clean streets, kill and bury dogs
etc. While performing these tasks, they were subjected to numerous insults and
mockings, even by children.
On May 17, 1994, the Moslem police deported the witness S. together with
the remaining Serbs in Vitkovici to the village of Sasici near Gorazde. They were allowed to take along only essential things, and were taken in trucks to Sasici, where they were accomodated in Serb houses. They were under constant control of the police a
nd were not allowed to leave the village.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness S., in the Committee
files under no. 205/95-1.
1.1.15. On May 5, 1992, the Moslem soldier Murat Popovic broke into the
apartment of the witness K. in Vitkovici (a suburb of Gorazde) and immediately
started to beat her with his rifle butt all over her body. He hit her on her left arm, earlier broken in the shoulder, after which she fainted. When she recovered, Popovic threatened to kill her and asked about her son's whereabouts. She pleaded with him
to kill her and not torture her any more, but he answered that she would not pull through that easily and hit her again several times with the rifle butt.
The following day the police took the witness from her apartment and put
her in the house of Zdravko Nikolic in Vitkovici. The policeman took her often
to so-called interrogations, followed by death threats and various insults. She
was interrogated by the agent Osman Subasic.
On May 17, 1994, she was deported, together with other Serbs to the village of Sasici, near Gorazde, where they were under constant police control.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Murat Popovic from Vitkovici (Gorazde),
2. Osman Subasic, from Foca.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness K. (2o5/95-2).
1.1.16. On July 14, 1992, Moslem soldiers attacked the Serb village of
Bucje and "collected" all Serbs who had not managed to escape - 44 of them. On
the way to Trebesko brdo, they let go several women and children, while the rest of the group, consisting of 32 people (12-15 men, the rest women), was taken to
Trebesko brdo and incarcerated in the basement of a building. The soldiers of the Moslem unit of Ahmet Sejdic from Visegrad beat the male Serbs, and maltreated and insulted females, slapping their faces or pulling their hair. At night the males were taken
out individually and ordered to raise their hands, after which they were beaten with fists, feet, rifle butts and rubber sticks. The Moslems made them lie on their stomachs and "eat" dust, and then beat them again all over their bodies until they fainted
They put knives under their throats and in front of their eyes. They used knives to carve the Moslem emblem (crescent and star) into their bodies and the letters SDA on their backs. They pierced their ears, saying they intended to give them earrings. Th
e Serb P. was nailed by the ear to a wooden beam in the basement. This torture lasted six days. After that, the Serbs were taken to a prison
camp in Gorazde, where they remained for eight months.
There were ten or more of them in one cell, men and women together. They
were lying on bare floors and had no covers. Once a day they were given some
chowder, sometimes containing hair nad broken glass, and a small piece of bread. They were interrogated by police inspectors Samir Dzebo and Mensur Dakovic
from Gorazde. The witness V. was pulled by the hair during interrogation. After
releasing them from the prison camp, the witness V., as well the other Serbs, was not allowed to move freely.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Ahmet Sejdic, from Visegrad, commander of the Moslem military unit,
2. Samir Dzebo, a police inspector from Gorazde,
3. Dakovic Mensur, a police inspector from Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness V., V. and B., in the
Committee files under Nrs. 440/94-3, 9 and 15.
1.1.17. At the beginning of May 1992, Moslem soldiers raided Serb houses
in the village of Crkvine (county of Gorazde), taking all valuable things and
physically abusing some of the Serbs. Among the beaten was Anda Sekara, born
Delic, from Crkvine.
On May 12, 1992, a group of Moslem soldiers, among them the sons of Omer
Erak from Kalac, deported from the vilage of Crkvine to the village of Kalac four women of Serb nationality: Anda and Stana Delic, and Anda Sekara, born Delic, and incarcerated them in a house. A Moslem soldier, Mujo Pestek, demanded that they inform the
men from their village about their whereabouts, saying that he would not set them free until the men came to get them. One of the women informed by phone a relative of hers, and soon after that the following Serbs came to the village of Kalac: Novica, Nik
o, Jovo, Radivoje and Dragan Delic, Ugljesa and Nikola Zmukic, Milutin Pejovic, Pero Sekara and Ljubo Martovic - all from the village of Crkvine. They were taken to Mravince and interrogated by Osman Subasic in the Moslem army headquarters. During interog
ation he beat Niko Delic in front of all the others. After that the women were released and the men kept in custody (their further fate will be dealt with in the second part of this paper). The Moslem soldiers continued to raid the Serb houses in the
village of
Crkvine. Dino Dzambegovic and another Moslem soldier, on August 10, 1992, broke
into the house of S. and for three days, with short intervals, beat and
maltreated the four above-mentioned women and S. On August 13, 1992, Anda Sekara hanged herself, since she cold not tolerate the torture any longer. The remainimg three women and S. were taken to the village of Sasici.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. "Mido" , the son of Omer Erak from Kalac, a Moslem soldier
2. "Liko", the second son of Osman Erak from Kalac, a Moslem soldier,
3. Mujo Pestek, from the village of Lokarica, a Moslem soldier,
4. Osman Subasic, a Moslem army officer
5. Dino Dzambegovic, from the village of Milijan, by Cajnice.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness D., in the Committe files under no.
694/94-13.
1.1.18. In April 1994, a group of seven Moslem soldiers, led by Jasko
Jusic, broke down the entrance door and forcibly entered the apartment belonging to D. and M. in the Mose Pijade str. no. 18 in Gorazde. The time was 11.30 p.m.
They jumped all over the place, shouting and asking the tennants to move out
immediately, but finally consented to wait until morning.
Azem Obarcanin and a certain Pozder, accompanied by another Moslem soldier, broke into the apartment in the early morning hours. D. and M. fled to seek
refuge with some neighbours, while the Moslem soldiers fired shots in the
apartment, eventually causing a fire.
When D. and M. went the police to ask for help, they were detained in jail
"as a protection measure" against enraged Moslems. The following day they were
advised to file a private complaint with the court, while some Moslems who lived in the same building declared they themselves had put the apartment on fire. In
the meantime, Jasko Jusic moved into the apartment.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Jasko Jusic, from Hubijer, near Gorazde, a bodyguard of the Moslem
commander Ramiz Durakovic.
2. Azem Obarcanin, from Gorazde,
3. Pozder, from the hamlet of Vranje near Gorazde, son of Naila Pozder.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of m. and D., in the Committee files
under Nrs. 440/94-11 and 18.
1.1.19. Two armed Moslems, Ramiz Koso and Apko Hasanagic, in the night
between April 20 and 21, 1994, tried to set fire to the house of the Nedimovic
family in Gorazde, turned into a prison camp for Serbs. They fired from their
arms and threatened to kill all Serbs.
The following morning Apko Hasanagic took the witness H. from his son's
apartment and asked him to give a statement to Radio Gorazde, declaring that the Serbs in Gorazde were well and unmolested by anyone. When the witness H. refused to go with Hasanagic and make a statement, the Moslem started to scold and insult him, and th
en put the rifle against the witness's head lenghtwise and fired four shots, singeing his hair.
After that Hasanagic took the witness H. to the house of the Nedimovic
family and tried to make him and all other Serbs interned in that house go to the bridge leading to the left bank of the river Drina, where Radio Gorazde was
located. Fearing that they would be killed on the bridge, the Serbs resisted. Two of them, D. and V., started toward the bridge and were wounded. In the ensuing commotion, R. and N. tried to go back to the building and Hasanagic fired in their direction,
but missed. When the Serbs resisted going to the bridge, Hasanagic said that he had to make them go because the witness H. refused to give a statement to Radio Gorazde. The witness H. then said that he would be willing to make a statement only if all othe
r Serbs were released. Hasanagic then took only the witness H. toward the bridge. H. persistently resisted, saying that the police department also had a radio station and that he could make his statement there. Finally Hasanagic changed his mind and told
the witness H. that he would make the statement some other time. According to what the witness H. learned later, D. and V. were shot at from the position held by Moslem soldiers (from the Workers center and the
courthouse). The idea was to kill the Serbs on the bridge by Moslem fire, and to blame the Serb soldiers, whose most forward position was some 300 meters from the bridge, for this crime.
Immidiately after this event, S., together with his wife G. and their
children swam across the Drina and fled to Serb territory. On April 24, 1994,
Cazim Obarcanin, Apko Hasanagic and another Moslem soldier, looking for the
witness H., broke into his son's apartment. The witness H. managed to escape
across the balcony into the adjacent apartment. Then these soldiers set fire to
his son's apartment and to the family houses of E. and the witness Z., which were located in the immediate vicinity of the witness H.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Ramiz Koso, a Moslem soldier
2. Apko Hasanagic, from Gorazde, a Moslem soldier,
3. Cazim Obarcanin, from Gorazde, a Mosle sldier,
4. Sefko Hodzic, a policeman from Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of witness H. and G., in the Committee
files under Nos. 36/95 and 440/94-17.
1.2. Killing of civilians
From the very onset of armed conflicts in the county of Gorazde, the Moslem army and police committed massive crimes against Serbs, including the cruellest
ones - killing civilians.
Killings were carried out in the places where Serbs were found or taken to, in their own houses, in streets, in jails or prison camps. Many were killed on
the banks of the river Drina and their bodies subsequently were thrown into the
river.
Murat Sabanovic, from Visegrad, who opened the sluices of the Visegrad dam, adressed the Moslem soldiers before starting for Gorazde with the following
words: "We are going on from here, let those who are not able to slaughter and
kill Serbs step out of the file", Nobody left the file. On arriving in Gorazde,
Sabanovic used a bullhorn to call on Moslems to kill Serbs (the witness M.).
In the newly created climate of annihilation of Serbs, civilians, even
children could kill, without being prevented in this by anyone.
The Serbs who succeded in escaping from Gorazde estimate that the Moslem
army and police killed about 200 Serbs - civilians in the region of the county
of Gorazde. Moslems themselves were heard to say that in the first months of the war they killed 250 Serb civilians.
On the basis of data collected and available evidence, the following
killings were carried out:
1.2.1. Memsudin Rascic, a Moslem soldier from Gorazde, made a search of the apartment of Dusan Nikolic in Gorazde at the beginning of May of 1992. Dusan's
brother Brano was also there, so Rascic took them both to Vitkovici, a suburb of Gorazde, where he slaughtered them and threw their bodies into the Drina.
Data on the perpetrator: Masmudin Rascic, from Gorazde, nick-named "Mese",
son of father Ibrahim and mother Hasna.
EVIDENCE: Testimonies of witness E. and C. in the Committee files under no. 370/94, as well as the minutes of the testimony of the witness B. (205/95-3).
1.2.2. In mid-May of 1992, a group of Moslem soldiers killed Ilija Vlaski
from Bacak in the hamlet of Rascici near Gorazde. In the village of Brda near
Gorazde the same group killed three Serb civilians: Budo Uljar, Pero Pantovic and Milos Drekalo, all from the village Brda. Vlaski and Uljar, found in their
houses, were slaughtered and their bodies thrown into a near-by creek, while
Pantovic and Drekalo were shot on the thresholds of their homes.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Salko Rogo, born in 1952, from father Mujo and mother Hadzira,
permanently resident in Gorazde, precinct of Bacci,
2. Aljo Rogo, born in 1956, from father Mujo and mother Hadzira,
permanently resident in Bacci,
3. Rasim Rogo, born in 1961, from father Mujo and mother Hadzira,
permanently resident in Bacci,
4. Sevko Rogo, from father Suljo, permanently resident in Bacci,
5. Murat Rogo, from father Suljo, permanently resident in Bacci,
6. Halim Rogo, born 1952, from father Suljo, permanently resident in Bacci, and
7. Enes Rogo, born 1971, from father Murat, permanently resident in Bacci.
EVIDENCE: Testimony of the witness K., in the Committee files under no.
370/94.
1.2.3. In the first half of May 1992, a group of Moslem soldiers barged
into the house of Miso Jevdevic, in the Ksenija Tanaskovic str. no. 1. They
looted the house, then burned it, while Misa and his son Milenko Jevdevic were
taken to the hamlet of Mahala near Gorazde and shot to death.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Abdulselam Sijercic, nick-named "Pelam", born in 1952 in Gorazde, from
father Sadik,
2. Memsudim Rascic, nick-named "Memse", from father Ibrahim and mother
Hasna, owner of the games parlour in Gorazde,
3. Samir Terovic, from Gorazde, nick-named "Tera",
4. Admir Klovo, from Gorazde, nick-named "Tyson", from father Sulejman,
5. Sakib Islamagic, from Gorazde, nick-named "Kime", and
6. Ibrisim Imsirovic, from Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Committee files under no. 370/94.
1.2.4. On May 22, 1992, members of the Moslem army group called "the green
berets", broke into the house of Milan and Mila Spaic in Gorazde, in the presinct of Obarak, searched and looted the house and then shot to death Mila Spaic, born Droca, who was visiting. After that, they burned the house together with the victim's body.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Izudin Celjo, from Gorazde, nick-named "Beli",
2. Sabahudin Celjo, from Gorazde, nick-named "Crni",
3. Muris Zivojevic, from Gorazde,
4. Memso Ramovic, from Gorazde.
EVIDENCE: Testimony - the Committee files under no. 370/94.
1.2.5. The members of the Moslem army and police killed in 1992 in
Vitkovici (a suburb of Gorazde) about 30 Serbs. The Serbs were first incarcerated in the nitrogen factory and shot to death, or they were killed in their apartments or by the river, after having been taken from their homes.
On May 5, 1992, a Moslem soldier took out of their apartments Rajko Kucic,
Mirko Labus and Jovanka Labus, all from Vitkovici. Two days later, the witness
Staka Kucic heard from her neighbour Azemina Vukovic that her husband and the
Labus couple, by order of the Moslem command, had been shot to death on the same day they were taken from their homes and that their bodies had been thrown into
the Drina. Then, and on another occasion, the witness heard the killing had been carried out by Omer Lukavica, from Vitkovici.
The whole family of Petko Stajanovic from Vitkovici perished. First Petko's son was killed, then his daughter-in-law was raped, and when Petko protested, he was killed on the spot. After that Petko's daughter-in-law and grandson fled to
Gorazde and were killed by shells, while his sick wife died at home.
Data on the perpetrator:
1. Omer Lukavica, from Vitkovici, a Moslem soldier.
EVIDENCE: Testimonies of witnesses in the Committee files under Nos.
295/95-2 and 1, 36/95-1 and 281/95-5.
1.2.6. In mid-1992, the Moslem army, while capturing Serb villages on the
territory of the county of Gorazde, robbed, looted and burned houses and other
objects and killed Serbs who failed to escape. The victims were:
1. Stojan Vukovic, from Bigovici,
2. Zivko Markovic, from Mirosici
3-14. Twelve members of the Vukasinovic family from the village of Bukvica, including women and children.
15-17. Sava, Nikola and Buda Vukadin from the village of Osjecani (hamlet
of Smreke).
18-19. Vukosava Neskovic and Milka Vukadin (wife of Budo Vukadin), burned
alive in the house of Vukosava Neskovic in the village of Osjecani,
20. Milanko Neskovic, from Osjecani,
21-22. Lazar Gavrilovic, aged 92 and his son Jovan, from the village of
Crvljice,
23. Ranka Pajovic from the village of Pijevac,
24. a woman whose last name was Pesic, from the village of Pijevac,
25-29. Ljuboje and Nedeljko Jovovic and three elderly women, all from the
village of Glamoc.
EVIDENCE: Committee files no. 36/95.
1.2.7. In mid-1992, Moslem soldiers captured Serb villages Borak Brdo and
Grabovica and killed six Serbs who failed to escape. The old man Ilija Gladanac
was cut into pieces with a knife, in front of his house in the village of Borak
Brdo. Before burial, the parts of his body had to be collected in a tent sheet.
Andelka Terzic from Grabovica was also among the Serbs murdered.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Meho Drljevic, from the village of Kopaca, the hamlet of Zidine, and
2. Enes Turkovic, from Gorazde, both batallion commanders in the Gorazde
Moslem brigade.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of testimonies of witnesses, Committee files under nos.
440/94-21 and 36/95.
1.2.8. In mid-1992, at least 20 Serbs from the group imprisoned in the
prison camp in Mravinjac were killed (county of Gorazde). Among them were:
1-5. Novica, Niko, Jovo, Radivoja and Dragana Delic, from Crkvine,
6-7. Ugljesa and Nikola Zmukic, from Crkvine,
8. Milutin Pejovic, from Crkvine,
9. Ljubo Matovic, from Crkvine.
Moslem soldiers captured these Serbs (also Pero Sekara, who died of a heart attack), by using four women from Crkvine as hostages (described under 1.1.17.). They were held in the concentration camp in Mravinjac for a while, and when they were taken i
n trucks to Gorazde, the driver was killed in Vitkovici. The dead
driver's brother then fired at the Serbs, killing Radivoje Delic and wounding
Novica Delic. The families of those Serbs who survived this shooting never
learned anything about them, and according to what one of the witnesses (H.)
heard, they were all killed.
The following Serbs incarcerated in the camp of Mravinjac were killed:
10-11. Dejan Jagodic and his wife, from Mravinjac,
12. Milja Vukadin, who was taken from the village of Osjecani.
The commanding officers of the Moslem military unit who imprisoned Serbs
in the concentration camp in Mravinjac were Mustafa Zlatic and Osman Subasic.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Mustafa Zlatic, from Gorazde, commanding officer of a Moslem military
unit, age about 40, occupation teamster,
2. Osman Subasic, from Foca, a Moslem army officer.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of the testimony of the witness H., in the Committee
files under nos. 594/94-13 and 36/95.
1.2.9. Moslem soldiers under arms, commanded by Osman Subasic, in August
1992 captured Gojko Simovic, from Sarajevo, an officer in the Yugoslav National
Army, who happened to be in the village of Sasici when the war started. Nobody
ever learned anything about his fate, so that he is presumed dead, i.e. killed.
Data on the perpetrator:
Osman Subasic, nick-named "Osmo", from Zubina Suma, who before the war had
been employed in the Foca prison.
EVIDENCE: Committee files no. 594/94-17.
1.2.10. The following Serbs were also killed in Gorazde:
1. Todor Apostolov, who lived in Sandzackih brigada str. no. 12, taken from home in July 1992 and killed in the hamlet of Mahale, near the mosque,
2. Milan Vajagic, lived in the same building, was taken away in July 1992
and killed in the hamlet of Mahale, near the mosque,
3. Steva Vajagic, lived in the same building, was taken away in July 1992
and killed in Mahale, near the mosque,
4. Rastko Vukomanovic, from Gorazde, killed by Jasko Jusic in April 1994.
Jusic was furious because the apartment he intended to move into had been set on fire, and he was told that it had been done by the former owner (although it was done by Moslem soldiers). Enraged, he went to the Nedimovic house in Mose Pijade str. no. 62
and fired a series of shots at Serbs who either lied down on the
floor or tried to escape.
5. Koviljka Vukovic, aged 65, who lived in the 1. maja str., was taken out
of her apartment at night and killed with a blunt object. Her body was thrown
into the Drina river (her handbag was put on the bank, with the idea of
simulating a suicide),
6. Krsta Vukovic, who lived in Sandzackih brigada str. no. 12, was taken
away in July 1992 and killed in the hamlet of Mahale, near the mosque,
7. Zora Danilovic, aged 50, was thrown down from the fifth floor balcony
in a house in Mira Sekarica street in the first half of 1994,
8. Milisav Dokic, from the village of Ilovaca, hamlet Nekopi, killed by
armed Moslems in April 1992,
9. Branislav Dokovic, aged 40, killed in the first half of 1994 in a garage by the river Drina by soldiers from Ahmet Sejdic's unit (his body was found in
the river),
10. Ivo Dokovic, aged 65, from Marsala Tita str., killed in the first half
of 1994 in a garage by the Drina, by soldiers from Ahmet Sejdic's unit. His body was found in the Drina,
11. Milan Zdjelar and his wife, who lived in Marsala Tita str. no. 36,
12. Boja Zdjelar, who lived in marsala Tita str. no. 36.. In May 1992 her
body was found, with nine gunshot wounds and a knife stab in the neck. A Moslem
policeman who attended her funeral said that Boja's husband Milan "swam down the Drina".
13. Desanka Ignjatovic, seriously wounded in the night between April 17 and 18, 1994, when the house of the Carapic family was broken into by two Moslem
soldiers under arms, who fired shots at the group of Serbs gathered there.
Desanka eventually succumbed to injuries sustained.
14. Srecko Ivanovic, aged 65, killed in his apartment in 1. maja str. in
Gorazde on December 1, 1994. His head was broken with some heavy, blunt object.
15-16. Trifun Ivetic and his wife Bogdanka, from 1. maja str., killed in
the first half of 1994, found dead in their apartment,
17. Milja Jaksic, who lived in Sandzackih brigada str., taken away in July
1992 and killed in the hamlet of Mahala, near the mosque,
19. Stjepan Jaksic, who lived in Sandzackih brigada str. no. 12, taken away in July 1992 and killed in the hamlet of Mahala, near the mosque.
20. Stojan Jankovic, from Gorazde, killed in mid-1992 in Gorazde by an
unknown sniper, while crossing an open space to get some water,
21-22. Toma Jevtovic and his wife Bogdanka, klled in the first half of
1994, in front of the building in which they lived, in 1. maja str.,
23. Dragan Komlenovic, aged about 40, taken away in mid-1992 and killed
later,
24. Savo Komlenovic, aged about 45, taken away in mid-1992 and killed in
the village of Mahala, near the mosque,
25. Zdravko Kovac, after his apartment in Sandzackih brigada str. no. 18
was searched on May 26, 1992, he was seized by a group of Moslem soldiers and
policemen under arms - Zija Hodzic, Safet Subasic, Sefko Hodzic, Mirko Dedovic
and "Milo" and taken away in an unknown direction. Later there were rumors that
he was strangled with a piece of wire and his body thrown into the river,
26. Milan Lazovic, from Sandzackih brigada str. no. 12; on July 13 1992 he
was taken away by Moslem militiamen. His wife did not know anything about him,
so she presumed him killed, as well as many others, in the village of Mahala,
near the mosque.
27. Branko Lackovic, from Gorazde, in mid-April of 1994, Moslem soldiers
expelled him and his wife Ljubica from their apartment and made them cross the
bridge leading to the left bank of the river Drina. They fired shots at them,
wounding him and later throwing his body into the river, while his wife managed
to run across the bridge to the other bank,
28. Dusan Leovac, aged 53, from Ksenija Tanaskovic str., was taken away in
July 1992 and killed in the village of Mahala, near the mosque,
29. Branko Ljujic, age about 53, a teacher, who lived in Omladinska str.
in Gorazde, taken away by Sefko Hodzic, a Moslem policeman, and killed after
being tortured in the police department,
30-31. Rade Marinkovic and his wife Anda, who lived in Rasadnik str. in
Gorazde,
32. Desa Markovic, from Gorazde, aged 60, killed in the night between April 17 and 18, 1994, when the house of the Carapic family, where a number of Serbs
had taken refuge, was broken into by two armed Moslem soldiers who shot her,
33. Milan Mihajlovic, age about 30, was taken away from the settlement
called "1. maj"; he is supposed to have been killed and thrown into the Drina,
34. Danilo Milovic, from Gorazde, taken away in July 1992 and killed in the village of Mahala, near the mosque,
35. Slobodanka Mitranovic, age 83, who lived in Marsala Tita str., was
killed in the first half of 1994; her body was found in the Drina,
36. Milos Mutlak, from Gorazde, killed in mid-1992; his body was found in
the Drina,
37. Kova Neric, from Gorazde; in 1993 (date unknown) Moslem policemen
strangled her in her apartment in the settlement "1. Maj" and her body was found in the river,
38. Novica Neskovic, aged 90, paralyzed, burned alive in his home in
Gorazde,
39. Brana Nikolic, an old woman; on July 17, 1992 was shot to death on the
stairs of her house in the Sandzackih brigada str. by Moslem soldiers, among them the son of Sefko Selimovic, a teacher,
40. Ranko Pajovic, from Gorazde, killed by a group of Moslem children, who
beat him on the head with stones, like a snake,
41. Zora Perovic, pushed from the fourth floor,
42. Zoran Sorak, who lived in the Sandzackih brigada str. no. 12., was
taken away in July 1992 and killed in the village of Mahala, near the mosque,
43-44. Marjan Stojanovic and his mother Koviljka were shot to death on July 17, 1992 in their apartment in Sandzackih brigada str., no. 18, by a group of
Moslem soldiers, among them the son of teacher Sefko Selimovic,
45. Ugljesa Stojanovic, who lived in the 1. maja str., no. 15, was taken
away on July 13, 1992; it is presumed that he was killed and thrown into the
river (a corpse resembling him was found on the bank),
46-47. Milko and Miladin Heleta, killed on May 4, 1992 in front of the
house they lived in, in the village of Povrsnica near Gorazde,
48. Anda Carapic, from Bucje, born in 1939, father's name Milovan, died
from exhaustion and hunger in the police prison in Gorazde,
49. Darinka Carapic, aged 83, burned in the house in Sandzackih brigada
street,
50. Drago Carapic, from Bucje, age about 68, father's name Mico, died from
exhaustion and hunger in the police prison in Gorazde,
51. Dusan Carapic, from Bucje, born in 1932, father's name Ostoja, died
from exhaustion and hunger in the police prison in Gorazde,
52. Jovan Carapic, from Bucje; in July 1992 Moslem soldiers from Ahmet
Sejdic's unit tormented him atrociously in Trebesko brdo; he died later from his injuries,
53. Radoje Carapic, from Bucje, father's name Milan, aged 21; in the first
half of 1994 Moslem soldiers from Ahmet Sejdic's unit slaughtered him and his
body was found in the Drina.
DATA ON THE PERPETRATORS:
1. Hadzo Efendic, chairman of the SDA and mayor of Gorazde, later head of
the War Presidency in Gorazde, aged about 45, M.A. in economics, born in the
village of Zaborak (Cajnice), main organizer and perpetrator of crimes against
Serbs,
2. Rijad Rascic, from Gorazde, economist, before the war employed at a
cable factory in Gorazde, deputy chairman of the SDA and member of the Moslem War Presidency in Gorazde,
3. Enver Borovina, from Gorazde, born in Ustikolina, age about 35,
veterinarian, member of the Moslem War Presidency,
4. Hasa Kuljuh, from Gorazde, economist, chief of the Economy Department
in the county of Gorazde, member of the Moslem War Presidency,
5. Fehim Pleh, from Gorazde, lawyer, secretary of the Town Council of
Gorazde, member of the Moslem War Presidency,
6. Kemal Duliman, from Gorazde, head of the so-called civilian summary
court in Gorazde,
7. Ibro Merkez, chief of police in Gorazde, organizer of the "reserve
police force",
8. Dzevad Begovic, from Gorazde, head of the Public Security Service in
Gorazde,
9. "Hoso", police inspector in Gorazde,
10. Kamenica, police inspector in Gorazde,
11. Samir Dzebo, police inspector in Gorazde,
12. Mensur Dakovic, police inspector in Gorazde,
13. Irfan Celjo, police inspector in Gorazde,
14. Ahmet Sejdic, officer in charge of a Moslem military unit,
15. Zijo Hodzic, a Moslem soldier,
16. Safet Subasic, a Moslem soldier,
17. Sefko Dedovic, from Gorazde, a Moslem policeman,
18. Mirzo Dedovic, a Moslem soldier,
19. "Mile", a Moslem soldier,
20. the son of Sefko Selimovic, teacher from Gorazde, a Moslem soldier,
21. Kemo Celik, one of the leading members of the SDA, perpetrator of
crimes against Serbs,
22. Murat Sabanovic, from Visegrad, an instigator (used bullhorn to urge
Moslems to kill serbs),
23. Jasko Jusic, from Hubijeri near Gorazde, bodyguard of the Moslem
commander of the right bank of the Drina.
EVIDENCE: Minutes of witnesses testimonies and other proof - in Committee
files under numbers: 440/91-11, 12, 16, 18, 25, 42, 8, 13, 10, 14, 15, 4, 3, 9
and 6; 594/94-14; 36/95; 205/95-3, 462/94 and 281/95-1 through 6.
1.2.11. The War Presidency in Gorazde, formed at the beginning of May 1992, and taking over the functions of the Town Council under war conditions, decided
on killing the Serbs in Gorazde and on their internment in camps ("isolation
centers"). As the mayor of Gorazde, Hadzo Efendic headed the War Presidency,
while the leading members of the SDA party became its members.
According to the testimony of a witness (36/95) the War Presidency, at the
suggestion of Hadzo Efendic, made a decision to liquidate him, but the execution was prevented by a former captain of the JNA - commander of a Moslem unit in the region of Gorazde, who threatened Efendic with his gun.
Some other Moslem commanders - former officers of the JNA also protested
against killing Serb civilians without any trial. Hadzo Efendic therefore decided to establish a so-called civilian summary court, the purpose of which was to bring in "verdicts" which would subsequently cover murders of Serbs already committed by Moslem
police and soldiers. Efendic suggested to Sejo Imamovic, former judge of the lower court in Gorazde to accept the position of the chairman of the "summary court", but Imamovic refused, stating that civilians cannot be subjected to summary trial, and that
in trials a regular and established procedure should be respected. On the insistence of Efendic, Kemo Duliman, a former judge of the
Misdemeanor court, accepted the role of the chairman of the "summary court" and
wrote "verdicts" for about 100 murdered Serbs.
Hadzo Efendic held the position of the head of the War Presidency until
February 1993, when he went to Sarajevo to a new post. At the moment he is
ambassador to Vienna.
One of the most dangerous and the most zealous executors of Efendic's
orders and of the decisions of the War Presidency was Ibro Merkez, chief of
police in Gorazde. Immediately before the onset of armed conflicts, Merkez
organized the separation of Moslem and Serb police forces, and after the war
began he established the so-called "reserve police force", consisting of Moslem
extremists and well-known criminals.
In some cases, murders of Serbs were investigated by so-called commissions, made up of representatives of the police and military or civilian courts. They
would come out with false minutes, attempting to prove that these were not murder cases, only suicides.

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[Barry S. Marjanovich]

On 30 Mar 1997, John Smith (Another Hiding SERV) wrote:

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The Times, July 12, 1996:

Arrest of two war leaders ordered
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BY BEN MACINTYRE

THE Bosnian war crimes tribunal at The Hague yesterday issued
international arrest warrants for Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic,
making the Bosnian Serb leaders international fugitives from justice,
and possibly opening the way for a commando operation to capture them.

The World Court also ruled it had jurisdiction to hear charges,
brought by Bosnia, that Serbia was the driving force behind the war.
It is the first time a nation has been charged with genocide before
the UN court. "We will have a chance to show that what happened in
Bosnia was not the act of a few men," Bosnia's UN ambassador, Mohamed
Sacirbey, said yesterday.

The arrest warrants issued by Claude Jorda, the tribunal judge, a year
after the men were first indicted means they can be arrested in any UN
member country.

The move will renew pressure on the major powers to bring about the
capture of the Bosnian Serb leader and his military commander.

Senior Western diplomats meeting in London on Wednesday agreed jointly
that the "right place for Dr Karadzic is The Hague". The option of a
military "snatch" operation to bring the men to trial has been
discussed in Washington.

Hearings into the genocide indictment ended last Monday, after a
succession of witnesses described the horror of the "ethnic cleansing"
campaign. Prosecutors accused the Bosnian Serb leaders of planning and
co-ordinating it, and one witness alleged General Mladic witnessed
mass executions of Muslims.

"The question is what people will do with these arrest warrants," Mr
Sacirbey said. "Neither the living nor the dead have justice now."

Any hope Dr Karadzic and General Mladic may have had of heading into
comfortable exile have evaporated, as any country sheltering them
would lay itself open to the full wrath of the international
community.
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[Barry S. Marjanovich]

On 30 Mar 1997, John Smith (Another Hiding SERV) wrote:
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> Karadzic, Mladic & SERVIA Wanted For War Crimes
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Jika Lazitch- Servian Minister For Internal Affairs

From the book : BLACK HAND OVER EUROPE by Henri Pozzi

A testimony to Servian Evil.
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"A country which employs a Lazitch," said the French diplomat whose
testimony I have mentioned, "dishonours herself. This minister is a man
of blood...I have seen him at work!"

I, too. I was at Belgrade, in July 1932, dining at the Excelsior
Restaurant behind the royal palace, with my old friend Dragomir
Stefanovitch, former charge d'affaires of Serbia at Paris during the War.
Lazitch came to sit down next to us. Stefanovitch who knew him introduced
us. I noticed his intelligent, hard eyes and brutal jaws. His nails were
black, but he talked well.

He had just returned from Macedonia where he had been organising the
State Police. I noticed one thing particularly, all the while he was
animatedly telling us risque stories about women, he did not stop picking
little flies from the table cloth which he would hold for a moment
struggling between his fingers. Then, without stopping his flow of talk,
gently, one by one, he tore off their wings, and with the end of his
cigarette, tapping lightly, unhurriedly, he forced them to crawl by
burning their abdomens.

"With the Macedonian women also," he said to us, "in order to render them
amorous, when they are insensible, we place hot irons on a good spot."

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[Marolt Parabucki]

Barry S. Marjanovich wrote:
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> On 30 Mar 1997, John Smith (Another Hiding SERV) wrote:
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> > sssssssssssssssssss CCCC ssssssssssssssssssssss
> > Karadzic, Mladic & SERVIA Wanted For War Crimes
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By the way, Barry, John Smith didn't write that.