From: malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Malenovic Nikola V.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Camps ( VREME NDA 28 Aug 1992 )
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:43:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19941
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                     No. 47, August 17, 1992
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    Camps
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                              NO RULES FOR DEATHS


    The camp at  Manjaca has already become known,  while fresh data pertain
    to Bosanski Novi where civilians, all  of them, women included, have had
    their hairs  shaven. Serbian regulars  and irregulars are  torturing the
    civilians they round up from villages  near Bosanski Novi. They take the
    "prisoners" in  busses, torturing them  on the way.  Recently, only five
    out of 50 villagers from around  Bosanski novi had reached the camp, for
    others were killed and massacred along the way.

    Moslem and Croat population in Banja Luka is maltreated. In Kozarac near
    Prijedor, all houses, with people,  were burned down, and charred bodies
    lie along the  street. Moslem and Croats flee  Prijedor illegally unless
    they have paid  10,000 DEM to some of the  local Serbs. The Serbs cought
    in helping  Croats and Moslems are  punished by the "true"  Serbs in the
    same  way.  They  are  arrested  in  the  same  camps.  In  Banja  Luka,
    Moslem-owned  shops have  almoust invariably  been blown  up. Those that
    have not, stay closed, because their owners are threatened constantly.

    Moslems and Croats have been removed  from all major offices in the army
    of the  "Serbian Republic of  Bosnia-Herzegovina". For having  uttered a
    wrong word,  people are taken away  or killed. A curefew  closes at 9.00
    a.m., electric power  is cut off throughout most of  the day, a state-of
    war-threat  is  proclaimed,  and  all  serbs  aged  up  to  65 years are
    mobilized.

    The mobilized men  from the area of Banja  Luka municipality are engaged
    in  war  aroun  Doboj  and  Odzak,  where  they  mop up the field, which
    presumes  the  extermination  of  Moslems  and  other  non-Serbs  in the
    localities nearby.

    Travelling  from  Banja  Luka  to  Belgrade,  one  passes a multitude of
    predominately para-military checkpoints. The  most essencial is the name
    and  surname as  stated in   personal identity  papers, while  the usual
    question is: "Any Turks here?". If a  Moslem happens to be here, this is
    the  end  for  his  journey:  he  is  dragged  out  from the vehicle and
    liquidated on the spot.

    Certain predominantly  Moslem-populated places in the  vicinity of Banja
    Luka, towards Prijedor,  Derventa and Doboj, exist now  only as names on
    maps.

    The military communication line Banjaluka - Belgrade is very busy. Every
    weekend, trucks driven by Banjaluka reservists arrive carrying arms from
    barracks in the Federal Republic  of Yugoslavia. The entire operation is
    organized through the command of Banjaluka garrison, which receives also
    arms  also  with  the  assistance  of  Serbian  forces  from  Pale (near
    Sarajevo).

    One  of  the  latest  shipments  of  munitions  to Banjaluka weighed one
    thousand tonnes of ammunition.
                                                                         NDA


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                     No. 47, August 17, 1992
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