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company of the 1st Armoured Battalion of the 2nd Proletarian Guard Mechanized Brigade of the
JNA.
Between 10 and 18 October 1991, Milan Devčić and Milan Radojčić, with the support of the TO,
the newly established militia and the Dusan the Great volunteer group, unlawfully arrested
Croatian civilians and ordered humiliating and discriminatory measures be taken against them,
obliging them to mark their houses with white cloths and making them wear white bands around
their arms.
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The Court defined as inhuman treatment, the order of Ljuban Devetak to subject the Croat
civilian population to work assignments, forcing them to work in the fields and to collect the
corpses of their fellow nationals in the presence of those who had killed them, and throw the
corpses into the ditch at the local cemetery, all under armed escort.
It was established that Devetak, Devčić and Radojčić, during October 1991, had subjected seven
civilians to physical and mental abuse in order to extract from them information about whether
their family members belonged to the Croatian armed forces.
The Court also established that Devetak, Devčić and Radojčić had taken part in the killing of the
civilians. On an unspecified date in October 1991, Ljuban Devetak personally ordered members
of the Dusan the Great group to kill civilians Snežana Krizmanić and Marina and Katarina Balić.
Between 14 and 18 October 1991, Devetak and Milan Devčić made a ‘liquidation list’,
following which members of the Dusan the Great armed group, between 16 and 18 October
1991, killed 16 civilians 128 . On an unspecified date in November 1991, unidentified members of
the Dusan the Great armed group, following an order from Ljuban Devetak, killed Zvonimir
Martinović. The court found no evidence indicating when and on whose order Zoran Krizmanić
had been killed, or whether Devetak ordered the murder of Stjepan Luketić.
It was established that the accused Devetak and Miodrag Dimitrijević, on the morning of 17
October 1991, made an agreement on and subsequently issued orders (Ljuban Devetak to certain
members of the Dusan the Great armed group and Miodrag Dimitrijević to Perić, commander of
the Sabateurs Squad of the Valjevo TO) to confine the villagers of Croatian ethnicity in the yard
of the Agricultural Cooperative in order to find culprits for “nocturnal armed provocations”.
The Court also established that the defendant Ljuban Devetak caused the defendant Petronije
Stevanović and a number of members of the Dusan the Great group to physically abuse Croatian
civilians confined in the yard of the Agricultural Cooperative by showing, on the night of 17-18
October 1991, video footage of the celebration of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
anniversary, in the village of Lovas, and telling members of the Dusan the Great group present at
the time: “Well, brothers, let’s see now who our enemies are”. Thereafter, members of the Dusan
128 The following persons were killed: Darko Pavlić, Željko Pavlić, Marko Damjanović, Josip Jovanović, Petar
Luketić, Đuka Luketić, Alojz Krizmanić, Stipe Dolački, Đuro Krizmanić, Franjo Panđo, Andrija Devčić, Marija
Fišer, Ivan Vidić, Marin Balić, Katarina Balić and Anton Luketić.
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