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Bukovica
men would make up a work unit. Rizvanović sent his list
to the social welfare center in Pljevlja. He described to
the HLC what happened next:
Unfortunately, that list caused us a lot of trouble. I
noticed that some men whose names were on it disappeared
and then turned up in prison in Pljevlja. I know
that the following refugees from Foča villages whose
names were on it were ill-treated and beaten: Abdulah
Moči from Papratno, Safet Ćelo from Veselice, Ibro and
Mujo Kafedžić from Potpeći, Muradin Čaušević from
Vikoći, and some others whose names I no longer recall.
In late May, the Bosnian Muslim refugees were told they
could return to their villages around Foča but, according
to Rizvanović’s information, three months later they
were forced to flee again to other places in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
Jakub Durgut, born in 1959 in Čerjenci village, kept a journal
on the events in Bukovica which led Muslims to move
out. 53 In his statement to the HLC, he began by explaining
that although administratively a part of Pljevlja municipality
and Montenegro, Bukovica gravitated toward Foča,
Goražde and Čajniče in Bosnia where its people had relatives,
went to school and worked. He enumerated the
once all-Muslim villages in which there were no Muslims
left: Madžari, Vukšići, Budijevići, Ograde, Čerjenci, Brdo,
Stražice, Plansko, Močevići, Kruševci, Kava, Bunguri,
Ravni, Klakorine, Djenovići. These villages were abandoned
before the signing of the Dayton Agreement 54,
53 Statement by Jakub Durgut, 21 June 2002, HLC documentation.
54 Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina, signed in Paris
on 15 December 1995 by the Presidents of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Croatia - Slobodan Milošević, Alija Izetbegović and Franjo
Tudjman.