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Bukovica
her husband’s pistol. Her husband had been dead for a
year. She was afraid to be alone in the house after that
and spent the next night with an Orthodox neighbor.
She went home to feed the livestock the next day and has
not been seen or heard from since. Her disappearance
was immediately reported to the Pljevlja Police Department
but the investigation produced no results. In
November that year, some villagers found her about one
kilometer from her house. Police from Pljevlja came to
investigate and established that the body was headless.
Some gold jewelry and money in deutsche marks was
found beside her. 98
10. Homes Torched To Prevent Return
Ten empty Muslim-owned houses in Bunguri village
were set on fire in May 1995. In its 1995 annual report,
the Sandžak Committee on the Protection of Human
Rights and Freedoms said: ”This latest burning of houses
by Serbs and Montenegrins came after several persons
belonging to the Bosniac community tried to
return to their homes from which they were expelled in
February and March 1993. Witnesses say that houses in
Bukovica that were not torched or blown up were damaged,
that even the windows and doors were stolen, as
well as the household appliances, furniture and other
belongings in them. It sounds incredible but, in parallel
with this arson, the Pljevlja municipal authorities sent
the expelled Bosniacs notifications to pay taxes on their
property, land, etc.“ 99
98 Statement by Jakub Durgut, June 2001, HLC documentation.
99 1995 Annual Report on the State of Human Rights and Freedoms
and the Position of Bosniacs/Muslims in the Sandžak- Yugoslavia,
Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms,
Novi Pazar, 1995.