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to them how they would slit their throats. Bavčić identified
Aco Malinić, related by marriage to Novak
Danilović of Kržava village, as the leader of the group.
Bavčić complained to Pljevlja Mayor Momčilo Bojović
who referred him to the police. He went to the police
station but was driven away and warned against lodging
a complaint.
After all that, I decided I had to leave my village and go
somewhere else. I first thought of going to Turkey and
applied for a passport - I didn’t get it to this day. We left
our Plansko on 23 April 1993 and went by foot to
Goražde. We took some of our livestock, three cows and
50 sheep, but half of them didn’t get to Goražde. It’s a
long way through the woods and there are dangers of
all sorts.
Soldiers and police came to Klakorine village in February
1993, searched Muslim homes and abused the
inhabitants. Ramiz Šabanović (born 1920) does not
recall the exact date when they invaded his home. Some
pulled his wife Hatidža by the hair and threw her to the
floor as others beat him in another room and demanded
money. Šabanović had recently sold two cows and
two calves so that he had the equivalent of around 3,000
deutsche marks in dinars in the dresser. A policeman
examined the banknotes but did not take them.
Then a soldier, I think his name was Aco Malinić, came
up to me. He had a dog and goaded it to attack me. The
dog jumped on my chest and tore my clothes to bits but
he held it on a leash so that it wouldn’t hurt me really
badly. I was terribly frightened by the dog. After that
they made me and my wife cross ourselves and sing
Chetnik songs. They also forced me to lick the blade of a
knife. When we had done all that, they drove us out of
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