The bodies of four murdered women, who had to be thrown into the river Usora by two inmates in Makljenovac near Doboj in the summer of 1992, have not been found to this day. One of them, who recognized his teacher among those killed, today can’t speak publicly about this and other crimes, and another says that he cannot recall the traumatic event.
One of the inmates recognized his teacher Mara Krajina when he was dragging the bodies of the victims across the stadium of the “Proleter” Football Club. He is afraid to talk about it, and he talks to journalists on the condition that he remains anonymous.
“The two of us pulled four mutilated female bodies into which dozens of bullets had been fired from the canal near the entrance to the stadium. We had to drag one body at a time across the middle of the field to the fence. After transferring the bodies over the fence, one of us was allowed to cross the fence to throw the bodies into the water”, he recalls the event, explaining how they were held at gunpoint the entire time, as well as that soldiers shot over their heads, while others set fire to houses in the Makljenovac settlement.
The bodies, as he described, remained on dry land due to the water level of Usora. Another person who took part in the dumping of the body cannot speak because of the trauma he experienced.
“We didn’t know where it would take us. They told us that we had to do a ‘job’. We had to lie down on the floor of the van, so we couldn’t see where we were going. An armed soldier was next to us. The other was the driver. When we got out of the van near the stadium, I knew where we were because I grew up in that area”, recalls the interlocutor while talking to journalists at the mentioned stadium.
The detention facility in which the interlocutor who participated in the throwing of the bodies was located, was formed in a former discotheque at the entrance to Doboj from the direction of Sarajevo. In the first-instance verdict against Jovica Stanisicand Franko Simatovic, managers of the State Security Service of Serbia who, as members of a joint criminal enterprise, were legally sentenced to 15 years in prison each for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it is stated that in 1992 there were 33 detention centers in the municipality of Doboj, among which included the Central Prison “Spreca”, the military warehouse “Usora” and “Percin Disco”, where civilians of non-Serb nationality were kept in cramped and inhumane conditions.
“The detainees were threatened, they were insulted and tortured and beaten with police batons, baseball bats and rifle butts, which in some cases resulted in the death of the detainees,” the verdict states.
Currently, the proceedings for participation in a joint criminal enterprise and the persecution of Bosniak and Croat civilians from the area of Doboj and Teslic against Andrija Bjelosevic, Borislav Paravac, and Milan Savic are pending before the Court of BiH. According to the indictment, Paravac was the president of the Crisis Staff in Doboj, Bjelosevic was the head of the Doboj Center of Security Services, and Savic was his deputy.
Earlier, Predrag Kujundzic and Slobodan Karagic were sentenced to 17 and 12 years in prison respectively for the crimes in Doboj.
Slobodan Krajina, to whom Mara Krajina was an aunt, says that he is thinking about marking the place of suffering of these four women, who are on the list of over 120 missing persons from the Doboj area, Detektor reports.
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