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Bukovica
station in Čajniče, in Bosnia just across the border with
Montenegro, that they were hostages, but did not know
the exact meaning of the word. Also in Čajniče, they had
heard two Serb army commanders, Duško and Milan
Kornjača, talk about an exchange of ”Muslim“ civilians
and Serbs but did not know anything about it. They said
that the children and the two women had remained in
Čajniče; that they all had been together for a while
before being separated, and that no one had told them
where they would be taken. The old people were afraid
to return to the village: they said that there were bad soldiers
in the village, that soldiers were coming there
”from the war“. They spoke especially about their concern
for the livestock left behind.
In Pljevlja, the Humanitarian Law Center researchers also
interviewed a blind woman who had remained alone in
the house after the abduction of her 72-year-old mother.
She said that the abductors had appeared one morning,
saying they were Chetniks. They returned the following
night. She heard dogs barking and noise coming from
the abandoned houses of her neighbors. Then her Serb
neighbors took her to the neighboring village of Bunguri.
While she was staying with the people who looked
after her, a group of soldiers came, took the father of the
family out and beat him up for no reason. This frightened
her and she returned home; after several days soldiers
took her to Pljevlja.
At present, there are 152 villagers from the Bukovica
region living in Pljevlja. All of them say they fled their
villages to escape soldiers who were being abusive and
accusing them of working for Alija (Izetbegović) and
the establishment of a Jamahiriya (Islamic republic).
They say the paid Yugoslav Army troops, reservists and
Chetniks had become particularly abusive after Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Še{elj declared that a