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Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:53 Page 46 46 Bukovica started. On 1 November 1992, police came from Pljevlja to search the village houses and beat Osman Durgut (born 1954), Šefko Osmanagić (born 1967), Sejfo Osmanagić (born 1970) and Rasim Tahirović (born 1963). After this incident, the villagers left their homes and moved to Bosnia or other countries. Only two families went to Pljevlja and continue living there today. The house of Osman Durgut was torched and the others were looted and badly damaged. The ruins of Zajko Durgut’s house in Čerjenci (photo: 30 April 2002) In his statement to the HLC, Osman Durgut 66 identified among the police who came to his home Goran Zindović, Slaviša Svrkota, Lale Ostojić, one with the last name Šubarić. He did not know the names of the others. They demanded to search the house for weapons. Osman was told to come out, while his wife Fazila, son Edin (16), and daughter Edisa (14) stayed inside. 66 Statement by Osman Durgut, Sarajevo, October 2001, HLC documentation.
Bukovica engleski.qxd 15.3.2003 13:53 Page 47 Humanitarian Law Center I went out and wasn’t far from the house when some of them started to hit me with their rifle butts and to kick and punch me. I don’t know how long it lasted, and when they stopped I somehow got to my feet and, all beat-up, made my way back to the house. When my children saw me all battered and bloody they started to cry loudly. When the police searched the house, I told them I had a 7.65 mm Zastava pistol and a hunting rifle for which I had permits. I turned the guns over to them. The police then took Osman Durgut to Budijevci village, some two kilometers away, where they beat him again, handcuffed him and made him crawl to a brook to wash the blood off his face. Afterwards they pushed a police club into my mouth and made me keep it there until they said I could take it out. All this was done to me by the policeman Šubarić. Durgut recounted that Budijevci was an assembly point to which JA reservists brought other villagers, among whom he saw Idriz Durgut, Šemso Babić, Rasim Drkenda, Sejfo Osmanagić, Himzo Tahirović and others. Slaviša Svrkota came up to me, drew his pistol, pointed it at me and demanded that I tell him where Salko Močević was. He fired five shots over my head. I was deaf for five days afterwards. The Muslims were driven to the Pljevlja police station and locked up. At the station, Durgut saw all the men he named above and others whose names he does not know. While in custody, the Muslims were frequently beaten with clubs and kicked. A fat man with fair hair whose name I don’t know used to come into my cell and beat me. When he got so tired he couldn’t go on, he’d ask me: ‘Did you piss yourself?’ 47
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