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onslaught on Bukovica villages in February 1993. On 22
February, reservists Djoko Gogić, Radmilo Djuković,
Slobodan Cvetković, Dragan Jelovac and Aco Malinić
came to his home.
One asked where I had been the last Thursday and I
said I had been making plum brandy. ‘No, you weren’t.
You were taking food to the Green Berets,’ he said. Gojko
hit me in the chest with his rifle butt. It was a hard blow
and I fell down. Then Djuković hit me on the back with
the barrel of his rifle ... I think I passed out ... I lay in the
snow ... When I tried to get up and go to my front door,
Cvetković came up and poked me hard in the chest several
times with the point of his rifle.
Šabanović found his wife Arifa (born 1924) lying on the
floor in a pool of blood from her injured head. He
stayed in bed for seven weeks, recuperating from the
beating, and Arifa somewhat less. Reservists who came
to their house later told him not to go to the Pljevlja hospital.
He nonetheless decided to go and was driven
there by his neighbor Simo Barac. At the hospital,
Šabanović was examined by Dr Vera Bojović who
admitted him to the intensive care unit where he was
treated by Dr Čabarkapa. One day, however, a Dr Cvijović
was on duty instead. He immediately discharged
Rizvanović and sent him home.
When I left the hospital for home, I wasn’t let on the bus
and had to spend the night in Pljevlja. Radoman
Čolović drove me home to Bukovica the next day in a
police Pinzgauer. As for my life after that in Bukovica, I
can say I had no more trouble. Since I had four daughters
and a son in Sarajevo, I asked the International
Red Cross to transfer me there in August 1996. I live in
Sarajevo now.
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