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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:53 Page 4 Dedicated to the victims of ethnic and religious persecution
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:53 Page 5 Introduction Humanitarian Law Center Bukovica is a rural area situated in Montenegro’s Pljevlja municipality. It spreads on 140 square kilometers of highland country covered with woods, orchards and meadows, cut by crystal clear streams, and is bounded on three sides, to a length of 104 kilometers, by the Yugoslav border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is sparsely populated, with 37 small hamlets and lone homesteads scattered on the mountain slopes. The community center is located in Kovačevići village on the edge of which are buildings housing the community office, elementary school, post office, medical clinic, the homes of the teachers and administrative workers and, since mid- 1991, the local police station. Kovačevići is 75 kilometers from the town of Pljevlja, the administrative center of the municipality, and some of its outlying hamlets up to 85 kilometers away. Twenty-nine of the hamlets were all-Muslim: Tvrdakovići, Rosulje, Raščići, Hromac, Sirčići, Selišta, Gunjičići, Borišići, Klakorine, Borjanica, Kržava, Mrčići, Rujevica, Geuši, Budijevići, Madžari, Ograda, Vukšići, Čerjenci, Djenovići, Stražice, Brdo, Plansko, Močevići, Kruševci, Bunguri, Kava, Ravni and Hajlovine. Serbs and Montenegrins lived in Srečanje, Meljena, Rudići, Krčevina, Brda and Piperi while Kovačevići and Lugovi had populations from all these groups. According to the 1991 census, the municipality had 39,593 people, of whom 21,916 Montenegrins, 9,529 Serbs and 6,964 Muslims, with Yugoslavs, Croats, Macedonians and others making up the remainder. The Bukovica hamlets had a total population of about 1,500 souls, with Muslims accounting for 65% to 70%. With the outbreak of armed conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, Bukovica Serbs and Montenegrins, like 5
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