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The second amendment: the 64 arrested and tortured captives, were escorted to the pier of thebridge on the dawn of November 10th. Several were shot into the river, and perhaps half of themgot stuck under the bridge and were then buried in the trenches.The 8th Partisan Shock Brigade of Vojvodina arrived at Zenta before the militaryadministration. They declared that the Germans had to be expelled. It is not possible to live inthe same country with the Germans after their crimes. The issue of the Hungarians was not yetdecided. The same stand, as with the Germans, is likely to be taken again: Thus Hungarianscannot be members of the National Committee for People's Liberation (NCPL). the public use ofthe Hungarian language is declared prohibited. and the issue of deporting Hungarians is raised.About a hundred people were arrested as war-criminals. If there happened to be a brave,influential man not restricted in his movement who could vouch for a captive or two, they couldbe freed.On November 9, a summary court consisting mostly of self-appointed members, sentenced 64residents of Zenta to death.A unit of soldiers arrived from Becse that day by order of OZNA, led by Petar Relic to carry outthe executions according to97the summary sentences. It is likely that some members of the local militia joined the firingsquad, and they may have known their victims.K. S., eyewitness from Zenta: "They were led to the bath-house under the bridge. Knee-deep inthe water, they were mowed down by machine-gun fire. They kept on firing until no onemoved."It was by accident that the illegal court which judged the so called war criminals, left a documentdetailing its blood thirsty decision. The unorganized shelves of the archives contain the deadlyway-bill of sixty-five innocent citizens1 Matyas Fur, Zenta, 59 years2 Imre Szabo, Zenta, 19133 Peter Dudas, Zenta, 18894 Istvan Kovacs, Zenta, 19005 Erno Ilovszki, Zenta, 19116 Dr Lajos Sas, Csoka, 19107 Andras Czeles, Zenta, 19058 Albert Dome, Zenta, 19109 Gabor Hagymas, Zenta, 188010 Aladar Janek, Obecse, 191111 Sandor Guelmino, Zenta, 189012 Dr Antal Ferenci, Zenta, 188213 Kalman Johanis, Zenta, 190514 Sandor Keserling, Modos, 1897