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6. An attack on Muslim-slavs in Nikšić
At the beginning of May, unidentified persons assaulted
three Muslim-Slav homes on Rada Knezevića Street, in
the Montenegrin industrial town of Nikšić. The attack
began with shots fired soon after midnight at the houses,
next-door to each other, of Aljo Ćirković and Enver
Kojić. The attackers then moved some 100 meters down
the street to the house of Gane Ćirković. The houses inbetween
are occupied by Serbs, and none showed bullet
marks, in contrast to the attacked houses on which
more than 50 bullet marks were counted. At the time of
the attack, both Ćirković families and the Kojić family,
with a total of eight small children, were inside their
homes but nobody was hurt. An investigation is said to
be under way.
7. Conclusions
The information collected by Humanitarian Law Center
field researchers and analyzed at the Center indicates
that more than 800 Bukovica Muslims-Slavs have been
forced from their homes and villages by the violence of
Yugoslav Army members and unopposed incursions by
Bosnian-Serb armed forces in the border region with
Bosnia of Montenegro. The Center is concerned by the
widespread view among Yugoslav Army members stationed
in the region, supposedly to guard the border, of
Muslim-Slavs as members of a hostile nation at war with
the Serbs. The Center deplores the attitude of the Montenegrin
authorities and the public at large in Serbia
and Montenegro towards Bosnian-Serb forces allowed
to enter the territory of another state unopposed and
the crimes committed during these incursions. The violence
against and abduction of elderly people, women
and small children goes virtually unobserved. The Cen-