October 1992 | Voices from the Drina

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My Serb captors are transferring me from Karaman’s house in Miljevina to a fish restaurant in the Ribarsko settlement.

🧵 “They beat them to death.”Survivor of the ethnic cleansing of Bratunac speaks to Front Slobode about the atrocities Serb forces committed in May.👇

R.S. is 20 years old. He tells us the following: “On 10 May at around 11 o’clock, our Serb neighbours dragged us out of our homes: Željko Simić, Duško Djurić, and Stevo Stević, armed with an automatic rifle…

Aside from me they also dragged out my wife, mother, sister, brother and daughter-in-law. We gave them a gold chain, 3 wedding rings, gold rings, gold earrings, bracelets, 250 Deutschmarks, and around 10,000 dinars…

They burned our personal documents as soon as we got on the bus… As soon as we arrived at the Vuk Karadžić School hall, they started to call out people from Potočari and Srebrenica, and they beat them to death…

Bane Topalović, Zoran from Milica, “The Macedonian” and a few of Arkan’s men, whom I didn’t know except for Lekić, the president of the SDS in Srebrenica, did this…

Along with constant beating and killing, Arkan’s men ordered us to sit on the floor, after which they jumped on us, kicked us and trampled on us, threw beer bottles at us, and some individuals smashed bottles on our heads…

They beat us with wooden bats until blood was spraying all around us. That’s how they killed Džemo Hodžić. They beat him, tortured him, abused him, stabbed him with a knife, shot at him with weapons until in the end they killed him with an automatic rifle in a truck…

All the time while they beat him, Džemo carried himself heroically. He even at one point managed to mutter to us that we should escape.”

I’m being transferred with @foča75 and other girls to an apartment belonging to Radomir Kovač, in the “Lepa Brena building”.

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