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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 56 56 Bukovica municipality. Units under the command of Ferid Buljubašić massacred five persons in Ponikve - two women and three children. 77 Toholj noted that Serb combatants identified among others Samir Bungur from Pljevlja municipality as a member of the units under the command of Ferid Duraković, a senior officer of the Čajniče Brigade. 78 The attack on Čajniče became topical again two years later when the Belgrade weekly Telegraf interviewed Republika Srpska army commander Dragan ”Čaruga“ Mastilović who said: It was then that about 3,500 Muslims carried out an allout attack on Čajniče; even Staroniće village, which was at the time defended only by commander Milan Kornjača and a few villagers, was attacked. When we subsequently analyzed the event, we arrived at the conclusion that the Muslims entered the area by way of Montenegrin territory. Upon returning to Čajniče, we decided to burst into a Muslim border village in Montenegro and capture a few villagers to further investigate the whole case. We filmed the captured villagers so that we have a tape of them admitting that no less than 200 Muslim combatants infiltrated into Montenegrin territory before the attack on Čajniče, and that the villagers hid them in their homes. We informed the State Security of the Republika Srpska and sent copies of the video tape to the competent state and military authorities of FR Yugoslavia and Serbia. The then FR Yugoslavia President Dobrica Ćosić personally urged that we return the captured to Montenegro, which we did. But no one in authority in Montenegro ever said why that happened. 79 77 Toholj, Miroslav, Black Book - The Suffering of Serbs in Bosnia- Herzegovina 1992-1995, Svetigora, 2000, pp. 168.169. 78 Ibid, p. 169. 79 Telegraf, Belgrade, 8 March 1995.
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 57 Humanitarian Law Center 7. Hostages Taken in Ravni Village This is how Monitor described the border over which the Bukovica Muslims were taken: ”Who controls the Metaljka border crossing is unknown at this time. The place has become an assembly point for the following elements: military police, ordinary paramilitaries, men who get together to fight over the weekends, reservists and other ‘fighters for Serbia.’ The purpose of their massing is to carry out the horrendous order to ethnically cleanse the area of Muslims who have been accused in Belgrade of involvement in the attack on Čajniče. But few have anything to say about the total disarray of the Serb forces in the area, which was in fact the main reason for the Muslim offensive.“ 80 Although roads to Serb villages in Bukovica were open and traffic was normal, no Montenegrin officials went to the area to determine the facts about the disappearance of 11 Muslims on 15 and 16 February. An attempt by an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission and a number of news reporters to reach Ravni village was thwarted by the JA command in Kovačevići on the grounds that it could not guarantee the mission’s safety. 7.1. Razija Bungur: ”They said they were Chetniks“ On 5 March 1993, the HLC spoke in Pljevlja with Razija, the 40-year-old blind daughter of the abducted Devla Bungur. 81 When the soldiers took her mother, Razija 80 ”Lighting the Fire,“ Monitor, Podgorica, 12 February 1993. 81 Spotlight Report No. 4, Human Rights in Serbia and Montenegro, HLC, Belgrade, May 1993; Spotlight Series - Human Rights 1991- 1995, HLC, Belgrade, 1997. 57
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