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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 76 76 Bukovica 8.1 The death of Hilmo Drkenda Zlatija Stovrag of Vukšići believes that Hilmo Drkenda was beaten to death on 27 March 1993. I saw a large group of soldiers going from Kovačevići to the border with Bosnia at about four o’clock in the afternoon. I went out to drive the sheep in and met Zlatija, Hilmo Drkenda’s wife, who told me there were soldiers all over the place. After that I saw Hilmo Drkenda staggering along with the help of two sticks. Drkenda told Zlatija he was taking a sack of hay to his sheep when he was stopped by soldiers and beaten. One of the reservists accused him of carrying food to the Green Berets, and started kicking and beating him with a rifle butt, and was soon joined by another. A third reservist swore at his colleagues and shouted, ”Leave the man alone!“ Hilmo also told Zlatija that the two bursts of shots heard earlier had been fired by these soldiers. Hilmo’s wife Zlatija arrived then and, when she saw the state Hilmo was in, began crying out loud, ‘They’ve killed my husband,’ and things like that. I saw blood coming from Hilmo’s mouth and he couldn’t walk. Me, my daughter Šahza, and Zlatija carried him into the house in a blanket. I think he died that same night. Besides having been badly beaten, he was an old man, 75 years old. His body lay in the house for about 10 days because we couldn’t bury him. The graveyard is about one kilometer from the house and there were only a few old people left in the village. We - me, his wife and neighbors Emin Drkenda and Latif Stovrag, both over 75 who dug the grave - buried him in Sulejman Drkenda’s yard.
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:54 Page 77 After Hilmo’s burial, Zlatija Stovrag and the remaining villagers left Vukšići. She and her daughter went first to Pljevlja and then to Sarajevo, where they now live. 8.2. Dekare Humanitarian Law Center The village of Dekare lies near the meeting-point of the borders of Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Somewhat closer to Bosnia, it gravitates toward Čajniče for it takes less time to reach Čajniče by foot than Pljevlja by bus. Before the war, the village had six Muslim families - five with the last name Duraković and one Tabaković - and three Serb households - the Tošićs, Cvijovićs and Jojovićs. Only two Serb families live in the village now. Mirsada (born 1971) and her sister Jasmina (born 1967) Duraković described what they experienced when VJ reservists barged into their home around 11 p.m. on 7 April 1993. The sisters were in the house with their neighbors Snežana and Mirko Tošić and Slavko Cvijović at the time. Jasmina (married name Tarić) believes that Snežana and Mirko Tošić were responsible for the reservists coming and that they ”set us up.“ 94 The Tošićs left immediately while Cvijović remained with the sisters. As soon as they were in, I saw they were up to no good. One said they had orders to search the house for weapons. We sisters said we had none and that we were peaceful citizens. I know that one of them then asked Slavko Cvijović for his ID and checked it out. Then they took Slavko into another room and tied him to the bed. The reservists were armed with automatic rifles. 94 Statement by Jasmina Tarić, Pljevlja, 20 October 2001, HLC documentation. 77
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