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Bukovica
the house and to a stream near by, threatening to cut
our throats with barbed wire if we didn’t give them
money.
When I said I didn’t have any other money than what
they had seen, one of them hit me so hard that I rolled
down the slope and passed out. I came to and they
picked me up and carried me to the road. They rubbed
me with snow, ordered me to get up right away and,
when I couldn’t, pulled me to my feet. When they left, I
somehow gathered the strength to get home - it wasn’t
far off. My wife had already run away to Borišići village
and I went there to join her. 93
In Borišići, Asim Hodžić took in the couple and advised
Šabanović to complain to the military command in
Kovačevići. He did and one of the officers there told
him he approved of all that had happened.
Pljevlja Mayor Milorad Bojović and some international
representatives came to see me after that and asked if I
could identify any of the attackers. I said I couldn’t but
that my neighbor Omer Hodžić had told me he knew the
man who had taken the lead in tormenting me - Milorad
Brković, a VJ reservist from Lugovi near Kovačevići.
Šabanović and his wife were not mistreated after this,
but because of their age decided to go to Sarajevo to
stay with their son Haso. Hatidža died in October 2001
and Ramiz still lives there.
Šaban Rizvanović (born 1922), who was the chairman of
the Bukovica neighborhood community at the start of
the war, remembers well the police and VJ reservists’
93 Statement by Ramiz Šabanović, Sarajevo, October 2001, HLC documentation.