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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 102 102 Bukovica Spotlight Report No. 4 May 1993 MUSLIM-SLAVS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO PLJEVLJA, MONTENEGRO Tensions reached a high pitch in Pljevlja last year as a result of increasingly frequent attacks on shops owned by local Muslim-Slavs and the road blocks repeatedly raised by irregulars under the command of Chetnik Vojvoda 1 Milika “Čeko“ Dačevic. Dačevic and members of his paramilitary group, ”Čeko’s Men“, were arrested and charged with terrorism. Although convicted, Dačević received a suspended sentence. The easing of tensions following the trial is perceived locally more as a result of Dačević’s subsequent election to the Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and his departure for Belgrade and less to more effective law enforcement. Persons interviewed in Pljevlja by Humanitarian Law Center researchers blame ”Čeko’s Men“ for the latest incidents of harassment and violence against members of Pljevlja’s Muslim-Slav community. They report it was several of these men who on March 27, 1993 burst into the local restaurant Stari Djeram, demanded at gun point that the Muslim-Slav proprietor immediately remove a picture of Tito, and ordered him to close the restaurant within the next few days since they planned to convert it into an Orthodox church. On April 22, S.G., a Muslim-Slav, was beaten up while riding to work to the Borovica mines. His attacker was 1 A military commander in Serbian tradition
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 103 Jovica Laketić, one of the men tried and given a suspended sentence together with Dacevic. The incident occurred in front of the other bus passengers. The victim says he is sure he was beaten only because he is Muslim-Slav. He did not report the incident to the police, convinced they would not have done anything about it. In Pljevlja, not even medical facilities are safe from attack. Late in March, unidentified persons threw a hand grenade at the dental offices of an outpatient clinic. The director of the clinic is a doctor of Muslim-Slav origin. 1. Bukovica Muslims-Slavs Humanitarian Law Center Displaced Muslim-Slavs from the Bukovica area and Bosnian-Muslim refugees from Bosnia who have not been able to leave for refugee centers in Turkey and Western European countries because of age or illness are staying with relatives and friends in Pljevlja. Bukovica encompasses several mountain villages, including Kovacevici, Borošići, Planjska, Bunguri, Ravni, Klakorina, Stražice, Čejrence, Rosulje and others. It accounts for nearly a third of Pljevlja Township. Its population, according to the 1991 census, was approximately 1,500, of whom some 65 to 70 per cent were Muslim-Slavs. This markedly underdeveloped mountainous area has no paved roads and borders on three townships in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Foča, Čajniče and Goražde. After the outbreak of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, local paramilitary groups and Serb army members from Bosnia began to raid these Montenegrin border villages and, at the same time, local Serb and ethnic-Montenegrin villagers began to be called up into reserve police 103
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