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THEM BY 0-1 TO EVRlEE (BORG). THANKS A LOT.

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FORMER YUGQSLA VIA

GRAVE BREACHES OF THE FOURTII GENEVA CONVENTION FIFTH SUBMISSION

WILLFUL KILLING

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IAN 93: ARMED SERBIAN GROUPS ARE KILLlNG AND WOUNDING PEOPLE;OF ALL AGES EVERYDAY, DESTROYING ABANDONED MUSLIM AND CROAT BUILDINGS. AND LOOTING HOMES AND STORES IN BANIA

LUKA AND IN THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) ZAGREB 02862 NO. 153

14 DEC: BOSNIAN MUSLIM FORCES FROM SREBRENICA KILLED AT LEAST 60 SERBS, MOSTLY CIVILIANS, IN VILLAGES NEAR TIlE BOSNIAN TOWN OF BRA TUNAC, ACCORDING TO A RESIDENT OF THE TOWN. AS A RESULT OF THE HOSTILITIES, UP TO 5,000 PEOPLE

- PRIMARILY WOMEN, CHILDREN, ELDERLY, AND WOUNDED -- HAVE FLED ACROSS THE DRINA RIVER INTO UUBOVIJA FROM THE BOSNLAN VILLAGES OF BIELOV AC, SIKIRIC, VOUEVICA,

JUGOVICI, AND LOZNICKA RIJEKA (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 BELGRADE 12973 NO. L40

SEP: A 44-YEAR-OLD MUSUM WITNESSED SERBIAN SOLDIERS

BEA TIl'l"G FOUR MEN IN EARLY SEPTEMBER OUTSIDE A DETENTION FACILIlY IN BATKOVIC. TWO WERE ABLE TO ENTER THE

. FACIliTY- DID NOT HAVE TIlE STRENGTH

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TO FLEE THE BEATING. FOUR OR FIVE SOLDIERS CONTINUED ATTACKING THOSE lWO UNTIL ONE OF mEM. ABOlJf 20 YEARS OLD, DIED. TIlE SECOND BLED FROM THE EARS AND WAS SO BADLY INJURED THAT HE COULD NOT RECOGNIZE HIS OWN FATHER, A

FELLOW PRISONER. '

-FIFTEEN MEN WERE KILLED DURING HIS STAY ATBATKOVIC CAMP. THE WITNESS WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST BRUTAL OF THE GUARDS AT BATKOVIC. (DEPA~TMENT OF STATE) 92 VIENNA

12906 NO:: 155 .

SEP: A 44-¥EAR-OLD SERBIAN CMLlAN. WHO HAD BEEN DETAINED IN CELEBICI SINCE MAY 30, WITNESSED nm BEATING DEATHS OF 15-16 SERBS BY A MUSLIM GUARD AND 1HE DEPUlY CAMP DIRECTOR, AZEM DELle - A "GREEN BEREP (MEMBER OF mE BOSNIAN MUSLIM PARAMILITARY FORCES £N KONJIC). (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 BELGRADE 13216 NO. 154

24 JUL~ A 39-YEAR-OLD BOSNIAN MUSLIM FROM PRIJEDOR, WHO WA HELD IN KERA TERM CAMP FROM MAY 31 UNTIL AUGUST .5, WITNESSED JULY 24-25 MASSACRE AT KERATERM CAMP. THOUGH WE HAVE REPOR THE MASSACRE IN PREVIOUS REPORTS. THIS WIlNESS PROVIDED SOM ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT THE EVENTS ON THE EVENING OF JULY

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-,THE WITNESS WAS IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, WHERE HE COULD SEE MUCH OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BECAUSE THE LARGE FACTORY DOORS SEPARATING THE ROOMS HAD SLATS WITH OPENINGS BElWEEN THEM. SAID 11IAT SOON AFTER THE DISTURBANCES IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR BEGUN. HE SAW TWO TRUCKS FULL OF SOLDIERS DRIVE INTO THE CA

THREE ADDITIONAL MACHINE

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WERE BROUGHT FROM TIlE TRUCKS AND PLACED NEXT TO THE TWO THAA HAD ALREADY BEEN IN THE CAMP. ALL FIVE MACHINE GUNS WERE US

TO FIRE INTO THE ROOM. AT AROUND SIX mE NEXT MORNING, THE WITNESS WAS AMONG THE PRISONERS CHOSEN TO LOAD BODIES INTO TRUCKS. HE SAID THEY STACKED MORE THAN 100 BODIES IN THE TRUCKS. PILING THEM INTI-IREELAYERS. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) ZAGREB 02639 NO. 146

26 JUN: A {9-YEAR-OLD SERBIAN CIVILIAN FROM VISOKO WITNESSS

THE BEATING DEATH OF MILIVOJE SAMARDZIC WHEN MUSLIMS ARRESTT HIM AND BROUGIIT IDM TO VISOKO CAMP. HE IDENTIFIED THOSE RESPONS{BLE FOR THE DEATH. (DE)ARTMENT OF. STATE) 92 BELGRR

13216 NO: 154 . f· .

20 JUN: A 27-YEAR-OLD SERBIAN CIVILIAN FROM OKOLISCE, A VILLAGE NEAR VISOKO, WITNESSED THE KILLING OF SIX UNARMED SS CIVILIANS BY A BOSN(A.N TERRITORIAL DEFENSE SOLDIER ON JUNE

IN OKOLISCE. HE WITNESSED lHESE SHOOTINGS FROM HIS NEIGHBOO HOUSE. AND STATED THAT AMONG THE VICTIMS WERE THE WIFE AND OF A SERB NEIGHBOR. DURING THis A TrACK, A MUSLIM NEIGHBOR SAVED THE LIFE OF THE WITNESS. .

-LATER ON JUNE 20, THIS MAN WITNEsSED THE BEATING DEAm OF BOSKO RAKOVIC AT VISOKO CAMP BY A MUSLIM GUARD WHOM HE IDENTIFIED. (DJ?:PARTMENT OF STATE) 92 BELGRADE 13216 NO.

13 JUN: A 24-YEAR-OLD SERBIAN CIVILIAN FRO .. r '1wAS B ~ ~

ARRESTED WITH HIS FA mER AND TWO BRO~BY"lR1SNIAN MUSLIM TERRITORIAL DEFENSE FORCES ON JUNE 13. HE WITNESSED THE

BEATING TO DEATH OF SLOBODAN GOGIC ON THAT DAY. POINTING TT

wouxn ON ELBOW AS OF IDS OWN TORTURE, THE WI1NN

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IDENTIFIED THOSE WHO HAD BEATEN HIMSELF, GOGIC, AND OTHER

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PRISONERS. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 BEWRADE 13216 NO. 11 NOT A CAREER UN OFFICIAL WAS IN THE BOSNIAN TOWN OF ,

KNOWN ZVORNIK THE DAY A GROUP OF BOSNIAN SERB WHITE EAGLES ETHNICALLY CLEANSED THE TOWN:

- "I SAW KIDS PUT UNDER THE TREADS OF TANKS, PLACED THERE

GROWN MEN, AND THEN RUN OVER BY OTHER GROWN MEN. EVERYWHERR PEOPLE WERE SHOOTING. TIlE FIGHfERS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE TOWN, SYSTEMATICALLY KILUNG ALL THE MUSLIMS THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON. IT WAS AN INTOXICATION, SURE. THE SERB MEE

HAD BEEN FULL OF REPORTS OF MUSLlMS EXPELLING THE SERBS FROO

ZVORNIK, AND OF THE ATROCITIES TIIA T HAD BEEN COMMITIED THER -"THE SERBS DOING THE KILLING IN ZVORNIK THAT DAY DID NOT FROM ZVORNIK. THESE PEOPLE HAD A COHERENT STRA TEOY. THE W POlNT WAS TO INFLICT AS MUCH TERROR ON THE CIVIUAN POPULA IT AS POSSIBLE. TO DESTROY AS MUCH PROPERTY AS POSSIBLE. AND TT TARGET AS MUCH OF THE VIOLENCE AS POSSIBLE AGAINST WOMEN AN KIDS. lHE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF TI-£AT PARTICULAR PLACE (WAS) SUCCESSFUL' AND THE WHITE EAGLES COULD MOVE ON." rras NEW YORKER) UNHCR OFFICIAL JOSE-MARIA MENDILUCE; BY DAVID RIEFF 10/23/92 NO. 145

TORTURE OF PRISONERS .

MAY-OCT: A 33-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM DOCTOR FROM PRUEDOR, WHO HA BEEN INTERNED IN TRNOPOUE CAMP FROM MAY 25 UNTIL HIS RELEA

TO THE TRANSIT CENTER FOR EX-DETAINEES ON OCTOBER

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DESCRIBED THE OPERATION OF A MEDICAL CLINIC IN TRNOPOUE CA - THE ONLY REPORTED CLINIC IN ANY OF TIlE CAMPS IN THE PRIJ AREA.

-TRNOPOUE IS A SMALL VILLAGE WITHIN nrn MUNICIPALITY OF KOZARAC, ABOUT SIX KILOMETERS AWAY. IT LIES ON THE RAILROA TRACK BETWEEN PRIJEDOR AND OMARSKA. MOST MAPS IDENTlFY IT . "KOZARAC STATION." TRAINS CAME OFTEN THROUGH TRNOPOUE TRAVELING TO BANJA LUKA. WOMIiN, CHILDREN, BOYS UNDER 16, M OVER 65,1&rD 1HE VERY SICK WER.S!LOADED ON THROUGH TRAINS; ABLE-J30DIED MEN REMAINED IN TRNOPOUE.

-THE WITNESS SAID THAT SERBIAN SOLDIERS WANDERED THROUGH TRNOPOUE CAMP NIGHTLY. BRUTALLY BEATING THE MALE PRISONERS RANDOMLY RAPING FEMALE PRISONERS. THEY DID TIllS WITH THE

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KNOWLEDGE AND PERMISSION OF CAMP GUARDS STATIONED AT SEVERA LOCATIONS IN TRNOPOWE.

-THE WITNESS EXAMfNED SOME OF THE RAPED WOMEN BUf WAS NOT ALLOWED TO INDICATE ON ANY DOCUMENTS THAT THEY HAD BEEN RAP THE CLINIC KEPT A LOG OF PATIENTS FOR A FEW WEEKS, UNTIL TH WERE STOPPED BY THE SERBS. THE DOCTORS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO INDICATE IN TIlE LOG THAT PATIENTS HAD BEEN SEA TEN OR RAPED, THE WITNESS AND OTHERS USED A CODE TO INDICATE WHO HAD BEEN RAPED AND BEATEN. THE WITNESS SMUGGLED THESE WGS OUT OF T CAMP AND TURNED THEM OVER TO THE MUSLIM CLUB OF KOZARAC fN ZAGREB.

-SEVERAL TIMES THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CLINIC CAME UNDER SUSPICION AND THEIR LIVES WERE THREATENED. ONE OF TIiE FEMA

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TO STOP WORKING AT TIlE CLINIC, BUT SHE STAYED. THE WITNESS BELIEVES THE PRESENCE OF THIS SERB SAVED THE LIVES OF THE 0 STAFF MANY TIMES. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 91 ZAGREB 02546 138

MAY -OCT: SERBIAN PARAMILITARY POLICE PICKED UP A 44-YEAR-O MUSLIM ON MAY 14 AND DROVE IDM TO A KINDERGARTEN ON THE WES SIDE OF ZVORNIK. THERE ONE MEMBER OF 1HE PARAMILITARY BEAT WITH A STICK FOR ONE HOUR, wmI,E ANOTIlER AIMED HIS PISTOL A HIM. AND A THIRD WENT lHROUGH DOCUMENTS. THE WITNESS SAID THREE WERE SERBS FROM SERBIA, NOT BOSNIA. THEY WORE WHITE BELTS .ANp CAMOUFLAGE FATIGUES.

-THE WITNESS AND ANOTHER CAPTIVE WERE DRIVEN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES TO A FORMER TEXTILE PLANT CALLED "ALHOS." THE FACII WAS OCCUPIED BY MANY SERB SOLDIERS, BUT HE AND THE OTHER MU APPEARED TO BE THE ONLY PRISONERS AT 1HA T TIME.

;.-THEY WERE KEPT FOR SEVERAL DAYS [N A SMALL ROOM, WHICH WA STAINED WITH WHAT THEY ASSUMED WAS THE BLOOD OF EARLIER PRISONERS. THEY WERE GENERALLY LEFT ALONE UNTIL MAY 16, WH FROM 8 PM UNTIL 4 AM THE FOLLOWING MORNING, THEY UNDERWENT MOST SEVERE AND INTENSIVE BEATING DURING OVER FOUR MONTHS 0 CAPTIVITY. TI-lREE SERBS CARRIED OUT THE BEATINGS, "TWO OF WH HE RECOGNIZED FROM TIlE AREA AROUND SVORNIK.

-mE TWO MEN WERE FORCED TO STAND AGAINST THE WALL AND SIN SERBIAN NATIONALIST SONGS. UNFAMILlAR WITH THE LYRICS, THE MUSLlMS WERE BEATEN BY THE SOLDIERS W[TH FISTS, BOOTS, AND

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RIFLES. ON THE VERGE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS, THE WITNESS WAS

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HIM. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS "TASK,." THE BEATING WAS RESUM DURING THE COURSE OF THE BEATINGS, BOTH OF HIS CHEEK BONES SMASHED AND THE ENTIRE BONE STRUCTURE ENCLOSING HIS UPPER TT WAS LOOSENED SO MUCH THAT HIS TEETH PROTRUDED FROM HIS MOUTT HIS RELEASE FROM THE ALHOS TEXTILE PLANT ON MAY 20 WAS ARRA

BY A SYMPATHETIC SERB SOLDIER.

-HIS NEXT PLACE OF DETENTION WAS THE ZVORNIK COURT HOUSE, WHERE GUARDS DID NOT MOLEST;mE PRlSONERS, BUT EVERY DAY SEVERAL SERB SOLDIERS FROM OUTSIDE TIlE FACILITY WERE ALLOWEE TO BEAT A FEW OF THE PRISONERS, WHOSE SELECTION APPEARED TO

RANDOM ..... ACCORDING TO THE ROJINE, TIlE PRISONERS HAD TO STA WHEN THESE UNIFORMED OUTSIDERS ENTERED THE ROOM. VICTIMS W SELECTED QUICKLY, THEN PUNCHED AND KICKED, FREQUENTLY IN TH KIDNEYS - SOMETIMES UNTIL THEY LOST CONSCIOUSNESS.

-ON JUNE 4, THE PRISONERS AT THE COURT HOUSE WERE MOVED TO NEIGHBORING HOUSE AND JOINED BY ANOTHER 120 MUSLIM DETAINEEE FROM A DETENTION FACILITY AT THE CELOPEK CULTURAL CENTER. TOO, THE DAILY BEATINGS CONTINUED. DURING THE APPROXIMATELL SIX WEEKS AT THAT HOUSE, MEN FROM THE SESEU UNIT CARVED CROSSES INTO THE FOREHEADS OF 10 MUSLIM MEN. ANOTHER GROUP BOSNIAN SERB "POLICE" ALSO SPECIALIZED IN TIGHTENING WIRES AROUl'iD VICTIMS' NECKS AND REVIVING THEM WITH A BLOW TO TIlE FROM A RUBBER POLICE TRUNCHEON BEFORE THEY COULD DIE.

-ON JULY 15, MOST OF THE PRISONERS WERE BUSED TO A DETENTII FACILrIY IN BAlKOVIC. AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVED, THE WITNESS OTHERS WERE BEATEN WITII STICKS. THE BEATINGS WERE A REGULA PART OF LIFE AT THE BA TKOVIC FACILITY. THE WITNESS WAS

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RELEASED FROM SERB DETENTlON ON OCTOBER 1 AS PART OF A PRISS EXCHANGE. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 VIENNA 12906 NO. 155

AUG: A 40-YEAR,OLD WOMEN DESCRIBED HOW FOLLOWERS OF SERBIA LEADER MILAN MARTIC SELECTED WOMEN FROM HER CITY AND PUT HUNDREDS OF THEM IN A SCHOOL IN DOB01.

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-"IN FRONT OF A FEW HUNDRED PR(SONERS THEY RAPED AND TORTUU WOMEN AND GIRLS FOR DAYS. IT WAS UNBEARABLE TO WATCH GIRLS BEING RAPED IN FRONT OF THEIR FATHERS.

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-"I WAS RAPED AND TORTURED TOO, BECAUSE lliEY KNEW THAT I AA WIFE OF A LEADER OF mE MUSLIM PARTY. IN AUGUST, SOME

PRISONERS WERE EXCHANGED, INCLUDING ME AND MY SONS. MANY WW AND GIRLS WHO WERE PREGNANT REMAINED IN THE CAMP. lHEY WERR TRANSFERRED TO A HOSPITAL AND FED lWICE A DAY BECAUSE, AS T CHETNIKS SAID, THEY HAD TO BEAR THEIR OFFSPRING." (THE NEW

YORK TIMES) SLAVENKA DRAKULIC, 12113/92, E17 NO. 131

MAY-AUG: A 39-YEAR-OLD BOSNIAN MUSLIM FROM PRUEDOR WAS HE IN KERA TERM: CAMP FROM MAY 31 UNTIL AUGUST 5. UPON HIS ARRI AT KERATERM, ONE GUARD -- WHOM HE IDENTIFIED - USED A KNIF SAW OFF THE WITNESS'S LEFT INDEX FINGER AT THE FIRST KNUCKL AND CHOPPED OFF THE TIP OF HIS LEFT RING FINGER.

-DURfNG HIS DETENTION, THE WITNESS SAW FOUR GUARDS CUT ANO PRISONER ACROSS THE FACE AND TORSO WITH A KNIFE. ONE OF TH

GUARDS CUT OFF THE BOTTOM HALF OF lHE MAN'S LEFT EAR. AFTE THE BEATING, THEY LEFT HIM IN lHE ROOM WIlHOUT ANY MEDICAL

CARE. VlVED HIS INJURIES, BUT AFTER A FEW DAYS

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WOUNDS BECAME INFECTED, AND THE WITNESS SAID HE COULD SEE MAGGOTS MOVING AROUND INSIDE THE OPEN WOUNDS. THE WIlNESS BELIEVES THE MAN REMAINS IN PRUEDOR.

-mE WI1NESS DESCRIBED ANOTHER FORM OF CRUEL TV HE WITNESSE:

KERA TERM. THE SERBIAN GUARDS GATHERED TWO-LITER GLASS BOlT FROM A NEARBY BOTTLING PLANT. A BOlTLE WOULD BE PLACED ON GROUND AND A PRISONER, TROUSERS AND UNDERWEAR PULLED DOWN WOULD B~ FORCED TO SIT UPON rr. THE GUARDS WOULD THEN PUSH DOWl\T ON THE PRISONER'S SHOULDERS UNTIL THE MAN'S BUTTOCKS TOUCHED THE GROUND, FORCINQ: THE BOTTLE ALL THE WAY UP TIlE M ANUS. OF THE GUARDS HE SAID:,

-"WHA TEVER THEY IMAGINED, lliEY TRIED; IF lliEY LIKED THE EFFECT, THEY WOULD DO IT TO OlliER PRISONERS." (DEPARTMENT STATE) ZAGREB 02639 NO. 146

MAY-AUG: A 36-YEAR-OLD SERBIAN MEDICAL DOCTOR WAS ARRESTED MAY 5 BY PARAGA'S BLACK SHIRTS (HOS) IN CAPUINA. SHE WAS TAKEN TO DRETELJ, A FUEL STORAGE GARRISON TRANSFORMED INTO

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DETENTION FACILITY FOR 64 FEMALE AND 100 MALE DETAINEES, WH SHE WITNESSED TORTURE AND COULD lDENTIFY SOME OF THE PERPETRATORS.

- "ALL MEN WERE MERCILESSLY BEATEN AT ARRIVAL AND DURING A INTERROGATIONS. THEY WERE HIT WITH HANDS, FEEr, NIGIIT STICC 1WO-BY-FOURS, AND RIFLE BUITS. TIlEY WERE SLASHED WITH KNIV AND DEGRADED IN EVERY CONCElV ABLE MANNER.

-,"(AN) OWNER OF SEVERAL CATERING ESTABLISHMENTS, HEAVILY OVER-WEIGIIT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTIIER PRISS

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BUT WAS NOT BECAUSE HE LITERALLY COULD NOT BE MOVED: HE WA BADLY BEATEN.

-"(ANOTHER) RECEIVED ABOUT 50 BLOWS TO HIS HEAD, WlllCHWAS BADLY GASHED. FEMALE FIGIITERS ASSISTED IN THE BEATING BY KICKhNG HIM.

-"DURING INTERROGATION ... PRISONERS WOULD BE SLAPPED, THE TIPS OF THEIR FrNGERS WOULD BE CUT OFF, THEIR FINGERS WOULD

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-"NEEDLES WERE DRIVEN UNDER MY NAILS, I WAS CUT wrrn A KAMM OVER THE FACE AND BREASTS. TIlE TREATMENT OF WOMEN WAS IN NN WAY LESS INHUMAN THAN THAT OF MEN. ON THE CONTRARY, SEVERAA

WOMEN WE~ RAPED, E~ SOM~SJ?R.Y O~Il4?NES." C " "Lt

_ ,~. ... ~~ _ ..J 8127/92 NO. 144

18 JUl'l:: A 42-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM FROM KEVUANI WAS INTERNED AT OMARSKA CAMP FROM MAY 27 UNTIL AUGUST 28. ON JUNE 18 OR 19 WAS CALLEDOUTOF BUILDING 11 AND TAKEN TO BUILDrNG 10, TO ROOM WITH FOUR SOLDIERS.

-THE SOLDIERS MADE THE WITNESS UNDRESS TO HIS UNDERWEAR. A LIE DOWN ON HIS STOMACH ON TIlE TILE FLOOR. ONE GUARD TOOK IRON CHAIR, PUT IT ON HIS BACK AND SAT DOWN. ANOTHER GUARD TOOK A LARGE CALmER AUTOMATIC RIFLE AND BEAT HIM ON HIS SP WITH THE BUTT OF TIlE RIFLE, POUNDING EACH VERTEBREA TWICE. THIRD GUARD CONTINUALLY KICKED HIM ALONG HIS LEGS AND GROIN THE OTHER GUARD POUNDED HIS RIB CAGE CONTINUALLY, WHICH RESULTED IN THE WITNESS SUSTAINING FOUR BROKEN RIBS.

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- THE WITNESS LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT WHEN HE AWOKE, THE F GUARDS WERE STAND£NG AROUND HIM, AND BEGAN TO BEAT HIM AGAI ON HIS LEGS, SHOULDERS, AND HEAD. ONE GUARD TOOK A POLICE BATON, STRADDLED THE WITNESS' BACK, AND BEAT HIS BACK AND R CONTrNUALLY. HE FELT THE PAIN OF ONLY THE FIRST 10 BLOWS,

FELT NO MORE. ANOmER GUARD PULLED OUT A KNIFE AND SAID HE WOULD CIRCUMCIZE HIM. THE GUARD THEN CUT HIS KNEE CAP, BUT WITNESS SAID HE DID NOT EVEN FEEL TIlE KNIFE AS HE WATCHED B POUR OUT OF HIS LEG. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 ZAGREB 0254

NO. 134 .

JUN: A 22-YEAR-OLD SERBIAN CIvrUAN FROM DRIVUSA WAS SHOT

THREE TIMES IN HIS LEFT ARM WHEN BOSNrAN GOVERNMENT FORCES CAPTURED SERB POSITIONS IN ZENICA IN JUNE. HE WAS BEATEN I

ZENICA CAMP FOR TIlE FIRST 10 DAYS OF HIS CAPTURE AND STILL

A SCAR ON HIS LEG WHERE HAD HAD BEEN CUT "JUST FOR BEING A

SERB." HE WITNESSED THE CASE OF ONE ELDERLY MAN WHO HAD STEPPED ON A MINE BUT RECEIVED NO MEDICAL TREATMENT, AND WH WAS REMOVED FROM THE CAMP IMMEDIATELY BEFORE A VISIT BY UN HUMAN RIGIITS COMMISSION SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TADEUSZ MAZOWIEC. THIS INMATE WAS RETURNED AFTER MAZOWIECK['S DEPARTURE AND D

A FEW DA YS LATER FOOD AND TEA OFTEN WERE CONTAMINATED WIT SOAP. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 BELGRADE 13216 NO. 154

ABUSE OF CIVILIANS IN DETENTION CENTERS

1992: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ZENICA CENTER FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF WAR CRIMES CLAIMED THE CENTER HAD INTERVIE 350,000 WI1NESSES OF RAPE AND VIOLENCE WHO DESCRIBED THE RA Of 30,000 (DEPARTMENT OF STAT

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92 ZAGREB 02783 NO. 129

AUG: A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM JELEC WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL SERBIAN SOLDIERS OVER NINE NIGHTS AT THE PARTIZAN HALL DETENTION CENTER IN FOCA. ON ONE OCCASION, A SERBIAN SOLOI RAPED THE GIRL AND HER MOTHER.

-A 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, WHO HAD BEEN RAPED BY A SERB POL[CEM DRAGAN J., SAID THAT SOME 100 "YOUNG MUSLIM WOMAN AND GIRLS WERE RAPED" IN MIUEVINA, AN EASTERN BOSNIAN TOWN DESCRIBED

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A POSSIBLE "RAPE CAMP." (NEWSWEEK) 1I4/93 PAGE 33 NO.1

27 JUL: A 29:'YEAR-OLD SERBIAN CIVIl!.iAN FROM SREBRENIK WAS TAKEN TO ZENICA CAMP ON JULY 27 BY BOSNlAN GOVERNMENT FORCE HE WAS BEATEN CONTfNUOUSLY - EVERY 10 MfNUTES - FOR 96 HO AFTER HIS ARRIVAL WITH ROPES AND STICKS. HE SHOWED EVIDENC. BEATINGS. PARTICULARLY ON HIS HEAD. HE ALSO REPORTED DELIBERATE CONTAMfNATION OF FOOD. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 9· BELGRADE 13216 NO. 154

DELIBERATE ATTACKS ON NON-COMBATANTS

DEC: BOSNIAN SERBS IN DECEMBER CONTINUED TO OBSTRUCT UNHCR CONVOYS TO EASTERN BOSNIA, TO SHELL THE MOSTAR ROAD, AND TO ENDANGER UNHCR PERSONNEL IN SARAJEVO VIA SNIPERS AND MORTAR ATTACKS. THE BOSNlAN SERBS ALSO IMPEDED DELIVERIES TO BIHA AND TIiB OVERSIGlIT OF RELIEF IN BANJA LUKA.

,- BOSNIAN CROATS fNTERFERED WITH UNHCR CONVOYS ON THE

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THAT1HE ROAD WAS UNSAFE AND COULD NOT BE USED. WHEN UNHCR INSISTED THAT THEY WOULD DEAL WITH THE RISK OF SERB SHELLrN

. TIlEY WERE ALLOWED TO PROCEED, BUT HA VB SINCE BEEN SUBJECT T FREQUENT CHECKPOINTS. DIVERSIONS TO DIFFICULT BACK ROADS. fNSULTS AT CHECKPOINTS. AND SHOOTING fN THE AIR.

- BOSNIAN MUSLIMS FREQUENTLY HAVE SHOT AT UNHCR VEHICLES A PERSONNEL AND HARASSED UNHCR PERSONNEL AT MUSLIM-MANNED BA~CADES. BELGRADE 12807 NO. 148

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-A MAJOR :iMPEDIMENT TO HUMA~ITARIAN SHIPMENTS TO BOSNIAN

GOVERNMENT -CONTROLLED AREAS IN DECEMBER WAS THE MILITARY ACTIVITYINITIA TED BY MUSLIM FORCES IN THE BRA TUNAC AREA. W HALTED &BUEF SUPPLIES FOR SREBRENICA, AND IN THE ROGATICA AREA, WHICH BLOCKED A CONVOY DESTINED FOR GORAZDE. (DEPART OF STATE) BELGRADE 13187 NO. 149

-SERBIAN GUARDS OUTSIDE BANJA LUKA CONTINUED TO HARASS RELL WORKERS. WAVING AROUND RIFLES AND PISTOLS, AND PROHIBITED TT FROM DISTRIBUTING FOpD. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 ZAGREB

02862 NO. 153

16 DEC: A GUNMAN SHOT A FRENCH SOLDIER WITH UN FORCES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA ON DECEMBER 16 WHIJ."E HE WAS ON GUARD AT SARAJEVO AIRPORT. (PARIS AFP) AU1712132092 NO. 150

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-WlflLE TRAVELING TO SARAJEVO IN AN ARMORED AND MARKED UN VEHICLE, HANS STERCKEN, BUNDESTAG DEPUlY AND CHAIRMAN OF TH4 FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITIEE. AND A GERMAN EMBASSY STAFF MEMBEE WERE A ITACKED. THE VEHICLE. WHICH WAS DRIVEN BY AN EGYPTIA CREW. W

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-STERCKEN SAID THE UN "COULD NOT HAVE EXPRESSED MORE CLEAR THE IDENTITY OF THE VEH[CLE~ IT WAS PAINTED WHITE AND CARRII UN SIGN. (HAMBURG DPA) LD1612165792 NO. 151

12 DEC: SERBIAN GUNMEN STOPPED A BELGRADE-SARAJEVO HUMANITARIAN AID CONVOY ON DECEMBER 12 AT HAN PIJESAK AND

. 1HREA TENED TO KILL THE RELIEF WORKERS. (PARIS AFP)

AU1512144792 NO. 152 4

6 DEC: A UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE'S CAR IN PRIJEDOR WAS HIT FO TIMES BY BULLETS ON DECEMBEIt6. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) BELG

12807 NO~ 148 '

5 DEC: A MORTAR ROUND THAT HIT SARAJEVO'S AIRPORT TERMINAL DECEMBER 5 WOUNDED TWO PORTUGUESE POLICE A IT ACHED TO THE UN PEACEKEEPfNG MISSION. THE SHELLING OF THE AIRPORT CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. (REUTERS) 12/5/92 NO. 141

4 DEC: DURING A BA TILE FOR OTES DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER,. TWO UN PLANES WERE SHOT AT. THE UN HEADQUARTERS I SARAJEVO WAS SHELLED, AND THE RADAR AT THE AIRPORT, SOUTHWE OF THE CAPITAL, WAS DESTROYED BY ARTILLERY FIRE. (PARIS AF AU0812153892 NO. 135

1 DEC: SMALL ARMS FIRE PIERCED THE STABILIZER OF A US C-13 DURING AN APPROACH INTO SARAJEVO AIRPORT ON DECEMBER I. TH ATTACK RESULTED IN THE TEMPORARY SUSPENSIPN OF THE UNHCR AIRLIFT. AT LEAST FIVE PLANES PARTICIPATING IN THE HUMANITARIAN AIRLIFT HA VB BEEN HIT BY SMALL ARMS FIRE SINCE

TE) 92 GENEVA 10191 NO. 13

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27 MAY; A 42-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM DESCRIBED THE SERBIAN ATTACK KEVUANI ON MAY 26. THE VILLAGERS FLED TO THE WOODS, BUT A SPENDING THE NIGlIT UNDER HEAVY SHELLING, MANY WOMEN WANTED SURRENDER TIlE WITNESS AND AN IMAM LED A GROUP OF WOMEN AN CHILDREN UNDER A WHITE FLAG TO THE SCHOOL TO SURRENDER.

-A SERBiAN OFFICER NICKNAMED ciIGO, WHO WAS THE HEAD OF THE TANK REGIMENT THAT ATTACKED KEVUANI, TOLD THE GROUP THE WH4 VILLAG~ HAD TWO HOURS TO SURRENDER. THE WITNESS SAm HE SURRENDERED TO CIGO ALL THE WEAPONS THE GROUP HAD, IN HOPES THAT THE VILLAGE WOULD BE SPARED~ THE SERBIAN ARMY, HOWEVEE BURNED MOST HOUSES TO THE GROUND. lHEY SENT ALL MUSLIMS AN CROATIANS IN BUSES TO PRIJEDOR. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 ZAGREB 02544 NO. 134

JUN: ACCORDING TO A HERZEGOVINA CHURCH SOURCE, THE REGULAR ARMY OF THE REPUBLlC OF CROATIA FROM THE COAST AND CROATIAN ARMED FORCES FROM WESTERN HERZEGOVINA FROM THE BEGINNING OF JUNE DESTROYED THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY:

- THE CA1HEDRAL AND EPISCOPAL HEADQUARTERS IN MOSTAR, ON J 15 AND 16;

- CHURCHES IN BJELO POUE, BOBANI PLATEAU, CAPUINA. DUBROVNIK, DUVNO, GABELA, METKOVIC. STOLAC, ZACULA, AND ZALL

- THE SERBIAN VILLAGES OF BRDJANI, ZUKICI, DJEPI (OR CEPI)

BLAe£, ZIVANJE, UUTA, OVCARl. RIBARI,

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SITNIK, DONIE SELO, CERICI, BJELOVCANI, CELEBrC!. POKOIISTEE OBRl, NEVIZDRACI, lOBaR, OSTROZAC, DOBRIGOSCE, PAPRASKO, REPOVAC, SHUNJE. HONDlCI, GNOJNICA, BUNA, HODBINA, AND PIIEE

.- THE 15TH CENTURY BYZANTINE-STYLE MONASTERY AT ZAVALA. TH 1611-1 CENTURY BYZANTINE-STYLE MONASTERY AT ZITOMISLlC, AND TT SERBIAN VILLAGES OF TASOVCIC. KLEPCI, AND PREBILOVCI ON TIlE EAST BANK OF THE NERETV A RIVER - WHERE. ON JUNE 7 AND 8, IT CHURCH wrrn THE BONES OF ALMOST TWO THOUSAND SERBIAN PEOPLE

KILLED .BlilFEEN ~ 941-45 WAS ByRNED DOWN AND PLOWED INTO THE .tl I

GROlJ1;U? L .\. I.J ~

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OTHER, INCLUDING MASS FORCIBLE EXPULSION AND DEPORTATION OF CIVILIANS

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5 JAN 93: A SOCIAL WORKER IN A NEDZARICI NURSING HOME, LOCC IN A SERB-HELD SECTION OF SARAJEVO, SAID THAT 10 OF HIS PATIENTS HAD DIED IN THE PAST 36 HOURS, AND THAT 26 RESIDEN OF THE HOME HAD DIED IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS DUE TO LACK OF HEATING. HE ALSO SAID THAT SNIPERS OR DIRECT HITS ON THE BUILDING HAD CAUSED THE DEATH OF 20 TO 25 RESIDENTS SINCE A 1992. ACCORDING TO A UNHCR OFFICIAL JOSE-MARIA MENDILUCE:

- THE NURSING HOME WAS WITHOUT WATER., ELECTRICITY. OR HEATING. MOST UTILITY SERVICES IN SARAJEVO (ELECTRICITY, NATURAL GAS, AND WATER) IS UNDER SERBIAN CONTROL. (1HE WASHINGTON POSl) PETER MAASS, 1/6/93, A20 NO. 158 (API) $1/5193 NO. 157 (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) BELGRADE 12807 NO)

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DEC: SERBIAN "POLICE" IN UNPA SECTOR EAST DURING THE FIRST WEEKS OF DECEMBER EXPELLED 65 NON-SERBS FROM BARANJA, MOSTL. FROM DARDA, SlUE, AND KNEZEVI VINOGRADl. ANOTHER 24 FAMIL. WERE UNDER HEAVY SERBIAN "POLICE" PRESSURE TO LEAVE KNEZEVI VINOGRADI. (DEPARTMgNT OF STATE) 92 ZAGREB 02760 NO. 132

5 DEC: A MUSLIM MAN, WHO REPORTED THAT ONLY 3,000 MUSLIMS REMAINEJ;> IN SANSKI MOST WHERE 15,000 HAD LIVED, DESCRIBED RECENT NITACKS BY ARMED SERBS:

- "THEY ROBBED US. THEY TOOK THE CARS, THE BICYCLES. THE POLICE NOW DRIVE MY PERSONAL CAR TIlEY SAID IF WE DID NOT THE CARS, THEY WOULD TAKE US TO THE CAMPS."

- THE MAN SAID THAT SERB MILITIA FORCES CONTINUED TO SHELL VILLAGES SURROUNDING SANSKI MOST EVERY NIGHT. (THE WASHING POST) l2l7/92 A25 NO. 137

DEC: MEMBERS OF TIm UNPROFOR CIVIL POLICE ESCORTED TO ZADA THE LAST SIX CROATS FROM ZEMUNIK GORNJI, FOUR ELDERLY WOMEN TWO ,OLDER MEN. TIfEY SAID THEY HAD BEEN LIVING IN A VIRTUAL PRISON AND FLED TO SAVE THEIR LlVES. ALL CROATIAN HOMES IN AREA HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, EXCEPT FOR TWO. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92 ZAGREB 02585 NO. 142

25 MAY; A 33-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM FROM PRIJEDOR WATCHED SERBIAN FORCES BRINGING IN HEAVY TANKS AND CANNONS TO KOZARAC ON MA 25. MANY VILLAGERS ESCAPED TO A NEARBY HO SE IN THE WOODS, WHERE THEY HID IN A BASEMENT SHELTER. AT NOON, THOSE IN HII ORGANIZED TIlE WOMEN, CIDLDREN, AND WOUNDED IN GROUPS OF 30,

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ARMY FIRED ON SOME OF THE GROUPS ATIEMPTlNG TO SURRENDER.

- TIIE WITNESS WATCHED SOLDIERS LOOT AND BURN HOUSES, CARSS AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY FOUND. HE SAW SERBIAN TANKS FIRE ON

PRIVATE HOMES. THE MEN EVENTUALLY WERE SEPARATED FROM THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND TAKEN TO TRNOPOUE. (DEPARTMENT OF STATE) 92;ZAGREB 02546 NO. 138 EAGLEBURGER

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