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Bukovica
ered after that but Huso Bekan continued suffering
great pain. With the assistance of the Red Cross, the
Bekans were in August 1996 transferred to Sarajevo
where they stayed with relatives. When Huso died two
months later at the age of 75, Hajra moved in with her
son Mirsad in Goražde.
9. Epilogue
The villages of Bukovica remain deserted to this day.
The houses - looted, damaged or torched - are uninhabitable.
Another reason why people are not returning is
the fact that although there were six murders only one
man, Majoš Vrećo, has ever been charged and tried.
Džafer Djogo (born 1936), an employee of the local
forestry company, was killed at Piperi village on 16 June
1993. His body, covered with branches and leaves, was
found near the village road. The investigation brought
out that Majoš Vrećo stopped Djogo, ordered him to lie
down on the ground and shot him three times in the
head. Dragomir Krvavac (36), a native of Rosulje village
in Pljevlja municipality and a refugee from Sarajevo
who was present when Djogo was killed, was arrested
together with Vrećo. Pljevlja Police Chief Radivoje Aranitović
said the killer was probably returning from the
front-line in the Republika Srpska and that he was intoxicated
when he committed the crime. Vrećo (37), a
native of Leovo Brdo near Pljevlja and a resident of
Čajniče, was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in
prison; Krvavac was acquitted.
In November 2002, the HLC learned at the Montenegrin
Supreme Court that Majoš Vrećo was first sentenced to
four and a half years by the Municipal Court in Belo
Polje and that the term was subsequently increased to
14 years by the Bijelo Polje High Court. The sentence
became final on 7 November 1994. Vrećo was in the