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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 112 112 Bukovica news conference in Belgrade on April 9, ”The possibility exists of this, too, having been a ploy of destructive Muslim forces in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia seeking to gain publicity in this manner. The problem is being investigated and the findings will be made public as soon as the investigation is completed.“ Bosnian-Serb political leader, Radovan Karadžić, has suggested to a relative of an abducted passenger that the abductors were members of a paramilitary group outside the control of the regular army. The Humanitarian Law Center has learned from several unofficial sources of the detention of Milan Lukić, a Bosnian-Serb paramilitary leader, in connection with the abductions. The sources say he was held for two days by the police but released when his men threatened to blow up the Belgrade-Bar railway. The Center’s information on the fate of the abducted is contradictory. It has reports that they are being held in a former Yugoslav Army warehouse in Bosnia, in the village of Musići between Rudo and Višegrad, allegedly for exchange for Serb prisoners of war. According to other reports, they were liquidated immediately. Who is Milan Lukić, the leader of the paramilitary group said to have carried out the abduction? Milan Lukić was also one of the arrested in connection with the abduction of the Sjeverin Muslim-Slavs. The Serbian Minister of the Interior confirmed the detention of Lukić ”in connection with the abduction of residents of Sjeverin“; ten days later the Ministry of the Interior announced there were no legal grounds for Lukić’s detention. It had been established, the Ministry said, that ”his armed presence on the territory of Serbia was as a person responsible for armaments in the army of another state.“
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 113 According to the information in possession of international human rights organizations and to eyewitness accounts, there is reason to believe the Lukić group was responsible for several crimes against the civilian population in Višegrad. Lukić, Jovan Planojević and a certain Momir are named as direct participants in the murder, on June 18, 1992, of twenty-two Bosnian-Muslim civilians on the bridge at Višegrad. The victims, allegedly, were first tortured, the men tied to cars and dragged through the street and several children thrown alive off the bridge and shot at as they dropped towards the river. The same sources report Lukić as a participant in the burning alive in Višegrad, on Pionirska St., of 60 civilians who had been promised safe passage to the town of Olovo, on Bosnian- Muslim-held territory. 5. A Second Abduction in Sjeverin Humanitarian Law Center On April 6, 1993, Hasan Mujović and Mustafa Polimac arrived in Sjeverin from Priboj to inspect their houses which they had abandoned after the abduction of 17 of their neighbors. Mustafa was standing in front of his house when four armed men in combat fatigues and wearing knitted face hoods appeared and attacked him. He called for help, and his neighbor Hasan ran out of the house. The attackers turned on Hasan, and Mustafa ran into his house, jumped through a window and escaped into the woods. After hiding for a time, he went to a police checkpoint, waited for the arrival of the next shift and returned to Priboj in a police car. There has been no word of Hasan Mujović since. His wife is undergoing psychiatric treatment, and his seven children are staying with relatives and friends in Priboj. The Humanitarian Law Center, in contacts with the police in Serb-held Rudo, on the Bosnian border with Serbia, was told that they have information related to this case but are not responsible for the safety of citizens of another state and on the territory of that state. 113
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