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56-year-old woman, Ramiza, a 16-year-old boy, Mamko, a
25-year old woman, Zlatija Bungur, and her two small
children. The explanation given was that the police
from Pljevlja were waiting for them on a nearby hill. The
following day another six members of the Bungur family,
all over 60 years of age, were taken in the same manner.
The abduction of the Bukovica Muslim-Slavs became
known only after the abduction on February 17, 1993 of
a group of Muslim-Slav passengers from a Yugoslav regularly
scheduled train which at one point crosses a
small piece of Serb-held Bosnian territory. On March 6,
the Minister of Interior of Montenegro told the Assembly
of Montenegro, with reference to the train abduction,
that there were indications that several persons
from Bukovica had also disappeared. Several days later
he announced that, thanks to the personal efforts of
presidents Bulatović (Montenegro), Ćosić (FR
Yugoslavia) and Karadžić (the Republika Srpska in
Bosnia), six of the 12 abducted Bukovica Muslim-Slavs
had been returned but that the Republika Srpska had
brought criminal charges against the rest. Returned
from Bosnian territory were six men and women over
70 years of age. The two small children, of less than five
years of age, their mother, the 16-year-old boy, and a
middle-aged woman were not returned.
Researchers of the Humanitarian Law Center spoke
with the released victims in Pljevlja. According to the
statements taken, ”some soldiers“ came and took the
victims; a woman, Sevda Bungur, was beaten until she
fell to the ground; and 95-year-old Latif was taken
behind a house and was later seen lying there dead.
These elderly people had difficulty describing the circumstances
of their abduction. They recounted to the
Center researchers that they had been told at the police
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