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Bukovica
was left alone at home. During the night, she heard the
dogs barking and noises from the houses her neighbors
had abandoned. Serb neighbors took her to Bunguri
where a family took her in. While she was there, soldiers
came on two separate occasions, led out the father of
the family and beat him. Afraid, she returned home and,
a few days later, was transferred to Pljevlja by the VJ.
There were 152 Bukovica villagers in Pljevlja at the time.
The HLC interviewed about a dozen and asked what
had forced them to leave their homes. The unanimous
reply was that they fled to escape soldiers who were
abusing and harassing them on a daily basis, and accusing
them of working for Bosnian Muslim leader Alija
Izetbegović and the establishment of an Islamic republic.
They said the abuse became particularly severe after
SRS leader Vojislav Šešelj declared that a 30-kilometerwide
zone bordering on Bosnia had to be cleansed of
Muslims. 82
7.2. Zlatija Bungur: ”Alema started walking
in prison“
A large group of soldiers came to the home of Ramiza
Bungur at noon on 15 February 1993. Ramiza and her
family were the only people left in Kruševci, a hamlet of
Ravni, some 14 kilometers from Kovačevići. Her husband
Zaim had died a few years before the war broke
out and she lived with her younger son Mamko (15),
Zlatija (37), the wife of her son Džafer, and their two
small children, Amela (2) and Alema (eight months).
Her elder son, Zlatija’s husband Džafer, had fled on foot
to Goražde a few months earlier after being severely
beaten.
82 Ibid.