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Savic and Mucibabic: Childhood memories

Krsto Savic i Milko Mucibabic

09 October 2008  Two Prosecution witnesses describe how they escaped from their villages and speak about murder and detentions.

Mirveta Pervan, who appeared as Prosecution witness at the trial of Krsto Savic and Mile Mucibabic, recalled how her grandmother was killed, when they tried to escape from Jelasac village, in Kalinovik municipality, in 1992.

"I was five years old at the time but I remember that, one afternoon, we heard loud detonations. I do not know when exactly this happened. I started running away with my grandmother. When she fell, I fell down as well. We stayed there, by our house, the following night. I was lying next to my grandmother, but I did not know that she was dead," Pervan said, adding that she realised, later on, that she was wounded.

The following morning some "people, dressed in civilians suits", found her and took her to her relatives, who were detained in a school building in Kalinovik. She also received medical assistance in the hospital but the assistance was not adequate, so she had to undergo a surgery after having been released, but she did not say when exactly.

The indictment alleges that, in August 1992 members of the Public Safety Station from Kalinovik participated in deportating civilians from Jelasac village, while "Serbian soldiers" supported the attack on the village, killing Dervisa Pervan and wounding Mirveta Pervan.

As indicated in the indictment, the body of Dervisa Pervan has still not been found.

The Prosecution charges Krsto Savic, former chief of the Safety Services Centre in Trebinje, and Milko Mucibabic, former policeman with the Public Safety Station in Nevesinje, with a number of crimes committed in the Gacko, Kalinovik, Bileca and Nevesinje areas in the course of 1992.

Testifying as a Prosecution witness, Sucrija Tanovic said that, in the second half of June 1992, he was captured while he was going towards Montenegro. After that he was detained, together with 17 other men, in "the hotel for single persons" in Gacko and then in a prison in Bileca.

"Somewhere close to Pusto polje we were captured by members of 'Beli orlovi' ('White Eagles'), who took all men to 'Kosuta' hotel. As soon as we got there they started beating and mistreating us. In the evening they transferred us to the basement of the hotel for single people," Tanovic said.

The indictment alleges that, in June 1992 members of the Public Safety Station in Gacko, which was under the jurisdiction of the Safety Services Centre in Trebinje, participated in the deportation and detention of civilians from the Gacko area in the school building in Avtovac and the basement of the hotel for single people.

"In the basement we were guarded by members of reserve police forces from Gacko. However, some people, who were armed and dressed in camouflage uniforms, and sometimes even civilians, used to come there at night in order to beat and mistreat us. They would sometimes take some people out. Those people would never come back. They told us that they had fled," Tanovic recalled, adding that 12 people were taken away in such a way.

As indicated by Tanovic, "about 160 people" were detained in the hotel basement. On June 28, 1992 they were transferred to the military barracks in Bileca, where he stayed until August 18, 1992, when he was exchanged.

The trial is due to continue on Wednesday, October 15.