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More Croatians escape Muslim held Bugojno

Red Cross official Adela Skaro has confirmed reports of a prisoner exchange of 42 Croat civilians which occurred on 9th of November 1993. All 42 Croat civilians, among them young children and elderly, fled the Muslim held city of Bugojno in . These people were all residents of Bugojno and the surrounding and have fled the city because of the increasing pressure by Muslims controlling Bugojno.

On their arrival in Tomislavgrad, these people stated of terror over Croatians still in Bugojno. After Bugojno was taken by Muslims this summer they have witnessed beatings and finally even the occupation of their homes by Muslims.

Before the Muslims started cleansing Croats, the central Bosnian city of Bugojno was populated with more than 16 000 Croatians. i Since than thousands of Croats fled the region and only some 900 Croatian families still remain in the region.

The parish priest of Bugoj no, Father Janko stated: " These remaining families have received practically no aid since the Muslim occupation of Bugoino."

Reports confirmed by the HVO say that Muslim forces have refused to release or exchange any Croat civilian prisoners in fear that humanitarian aid will be eliminated for Muslim held Bugojno.

Father Janko also stated:" Only since 22nd of October, 18 Croats have disappeared during the night. Croat civilians are pleading with the Muslim authorities and the World to be released before further executions take place."

According to statements of 4 Croats who escaped the Muslim held prison camp in Bugojno, there is over 3 000 Croats still being held in prison camps, in extremely bad conditions, many of them sick or wounded.

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DOCUMENTATION OF MUSLIM AND SERB WAR CRIMES IN HERCNG-BOSNIA SOURCE:MR. VLADISLAV POGARCIC HEAD OF THE COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN AID EFFORTS. FOLLOWING ON THE LEAD OF OBSERVED INCIDENTS MR. POGARCIC HAS ENDEAVOURED TO DOCUMENT IN CRONOLOGICAL ORDER, WAR CRIMES OCCURING IN HERCEG-BOSNIA.

- MAY 8, 1992 IN THE TOWN OF DONJA LANISTA SERB AGGRESSORS MASSACRE THIRTY-TWO CIVILIANS AND FIVE SOLDIERS. AMONG THE DEAD VLADO STJEPANOVIC, WAS BRUTALLY MUTILATED.

- JUNE 24, 1992 IN THE TOWN OF BRISEVO IN THE TURIJA DISTRICT SERB IRREGULAR FORCES USED SMALL ARMS AND MAKESHIFT WEAPONS TO SLAUGHTER SEVENTY-THREE CIVILIANS OF CROATIAN DECENT. AMONG THE DEAD, A LARGE PORTION WERE KILLED BY WOODEN MALLETS AND OTHER SUCH MAKESHIFT WEAPONRY. THE REMAINDER OF THE DECEASED WERE KILLED AND THEN MUTILATED AFTER BEING FORCED TO DIG THEIR OWN GRAVE . MOST OF THE TOWNS-WOMEN WERE RAPED REPEATEDLY FOR WEEKS BEFORE BEING KILLED.

-JANUARY 29, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF GUSTI GRAB LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT, MUSLIM FORCES KILLED FIVE ELDERLY CIVILIANS. MIJO GRUBUSIC AGED 76 AND HIS WIFE ANJA AGED 73 WERE AMONG THE MASSACRED.

-MARCH 23, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF ORLISTU LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT MUSLIM FORCES KILLED FOUR CIVILIANS. THE DEAD CIVILIANS WERE ALL ELDERLY RANGING IN AGE FROM SEVENTY TO NINETY YEARS OF OLD.

-MARCH 23, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF BTSCAK LOCATED IN THE SAME DISTRICT MOS KILLED THREE CROAT CIVILIANS. ANOTHER CIVILIAN WAS SHOT AS HE ATTEMPTED TO BURY HIS NEIGHBOUR WHO WAS KILLED IN THE INITIAL ATTACK.

-MARCH 23, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF TRUSINI (LOCATED IN THE SAME DISTRICT) FIFTEEN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED, INCLUDING THREE WOMEN. DURING THE ATTACK MUSLIM SOLDIERS USED WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS HUMAN SHIELDS. SEVEN HVO SOLDIERS WERE FORCED TO SURRENDER TO THE MUSLIMS. LATER THE SEVEN SURRENDERING SOLDIERS WERE SHOT IN FRONT OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN. ONE SOLDIER WHO WAS STILL ALIVE WAS REFUSED ANY SORT OF MEDICAL ATTENTION. FtURTHEREMORE THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY INVESTIGATION REGARDING THIS INCIDENT. 11 NDU '93 16:57 FROM FROM-FPB-SPLIT TO MCCL PAGE. 002/004

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-APRIL 23, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF ORAHOVU KATA AND IVO BOSNAK TO DEATH AT THE HANDS OF MUSLIM SOLDIERS.

-APRIL 24, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF MILETICI FIVE MEN WERE SAVAGELY MASSACRED. STIPE PAVLOVIC WAS FOUND WITH HIS EYES GOUGED OUT, FRANJO PAVLOVIC WAS DECAPITATED AND TWO OTHERS WERE STRANGLED WITH CHAINS. THE CULPRITS FORCED THE VICTIMS TO DRINK THEUR OWN BLOOD BEFORE BEING KILLED.

-APRIL 27, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF BILIVODAMA MUSLIM FORCES SET FIRE TO A HOUSE KILLING THREE ELDERLY CIVILIANS. DEAD ARE MIRKA LETICA, LUKA SESTANA AND JOZO KRISTA.

-APRIL 27, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF GAVRINOJ KUCI (IN THE SAME DISTRICT) AN ELDERLY INVALID DIED WHEN HIS HOUSE WAS SET A BLAZE. IN THE TOWN OF SUSAJ TEN CIVILIAN WERE LINED UP AND GUNNED DOWN WITH AUTOMATIC GUN FIRE. ANTO MARKOVIC AN INVALID SET TO BE EVACUATED WAS GUNNED DOWN WHILE WAITING IN AN AUTOMOBILE.

-JUNE 8, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF MALJINAMA LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT, AROUND 3GOO am MUDZAHEDIN REBELS BURNED HOUSES AND OPENED FIRE ON THE VILLAGE, THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN WERE FORCED OUT INTO THE NEIGHBOURING TOWN OF MEHURICIM. THE FLEEING RESIDENTS WHICH CONSISTED OF SEVEN WOUNDED, FOUR CIVILIANS AND THREE SOLDIERS WHICH WERE LATER KILLED. THE SAME MUDZHEDIN GROUP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING THIRTY-FIVE PRISONERS IN THE VILLAGE OF BIKOSE.

-JUNE 11, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF MUSLIM MORTARS KILLED EIGHT CHILDREN AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TWENTY MORE.

-JtNE 11, 1993 RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF KOVACAVA WERE SEEKING REFUGE IN THE TOWN OF KRALJEV SUTJESTKU WHEN THEY CAME UNDER ATTACK BY MOB FORCES. EIGHT CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND NINE OTHERS WERE WOUNDED IN FRONT OF SEVERAL WITNESS AND TWO UNPROFOR VEHICLES.

-JUNE 16, 1993 NEAR THE TOWN OF BUSOVACA MUSLIM FORCES ATTACED AN AID CONVOY CARRYING FOOD DESTINE FOR SEBESICU. IN THE INSUING ATTACK CLAIMED THE LIVES OF FOURTEEN CIVILIANS, EIGHT 4V0 SOLDIERS, A MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, ALONG WITH THIRTY HOURSES. FIFTEEN CIVILIANS WERE ALSO WOUNDED.

-JULY 15, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF NOSTAR, MOB SOLDIERS KILLED SIXTEEN CROAT CIVILIANS BY THROWING THEM ALIVE INTO A FIRE.

-JULY 27, 1993 IN THE JABLANICA DISTRICT THE MUSLIM ARMY SCORCHED THE TOWN OF DOLJANE AND MASACRED THIRTY-SEVEN PEOPLE. THIS TRADGEDY WAS EVENTUALLY DISCOVERED AUGUST 1,1993. THREE DAYS LATER MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND NINTEY CIVILIAN WERE KIDNAPPED AND HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE. ALMOST HALF OF THE ABDUCTED WERE YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIFTEEN AND APPROXIMATELY TEN PREGNANT WOMEN.

-AUGUST 16, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF KISELAJAKUT IN THE ZEPCE REGION MUSLIN EXTREMISTS MASACRED) FOURTY -THREE PEOPLE USING KNIVES AND oTHER NON-FIREARM WEAPONS. 11 NOU '93 16:58 FROM1 FRfM-FPTR-c;PI TT-- .- _...... UOMCL PAGE.-003/004

-SEPTEMBER 13, 1993 IN THE TOWN OF MUSLIM ARMY KILLED FIVE CIVILIAN AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TWENTY MORE,, OF WHICH SEVEN WERE CHILDREN (RANGING IN AGE FROM FOUR TO ELEVEN YEARS OLD).

-SEPTEMBER 14, 1993 IN THE VILLAGES OF UZDOL MUSLIM FORCES KILLED MORE THAN TWENTY CIVILIANS. THE FATALITIES WERE MOSTLY WOMEN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE.

-SEPTEMBER 25, 1993 IN THE VILLAGES GRABOVICA NEAREST TOWN OF MOSTAR DIVERSE MUSLIM FORCES KILLED AND MASSACRED 38 CROATS. THREE MUSLIM LADIES WERE ALSO KILLED WHEN THEY TRIED TO HELP TO THEIR CROAT NEIGHBORS.

-OCTOBER 25, 1993 IN THE VILLAGES OF RASTOVCI, MUNICIPALITY, MUSLIM AND MUDZAHEDIN FORCES KILLED SEVEN CIVILIANS AND THEY BROOKED ALL EXTREMITIES TO A LITTLE BOY GORAN LESIC

-NOVEMBER, 4 1993 IN THE VILLAGES OF VINISTE, ZAVIDOVICI MUNICIPALITY, MUSLIM DIVERSE GROUP WITH FEW INDIVIDUALS FROM ARABIC COUNTRIES, KILLED AN INVALID MATE KNEZOVIC AND MASSACRED MOMCILO LUCIC IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY.

ACCORDING TO MR. VLADISLAV POGARCIC THIS CHRONOLOGY DOCUMENTS ONLY A FRACTION OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS THAT HAVE OCCURED IN HERCEG-BOSNA. HE STATES THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF DOCUMENTING ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT TASK BECAUSE OF THE VOLITILE SITUATION AND THE INABILITY TO ACCESS CERTAIN AREAS. HOWEVER, ALL OF THE PREVIOUSLY LISTED INCIDENTS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AND ARE ENTIRELY BASED ON FACT.

THIS CHRONOLOGY ILLUSTRATES WHAT GRIEF AND MISERY THE INHABITANTS OF HERCEG-BOSNA HAVE ENDURED IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. THIS TRAGEDY, THE RESULT OF ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CROAT PEOPLE IN HERZEG BOSNIA TERRITORY CONTINUES TO OCCURE ON A DAILY BASIS AND APPEARS TO BE NEVER ENDING.

MR. POGARCIC CONTINUES, THAT ACCORDING TO SOURCES (NOT YET CONFIRMED) , OTHER ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY MUSLIM FORCES IN CENTRAL BOSNIA OCCURED IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES;

-IN THE VILLAGE OF POCTJLICE LOCATED IN THE VITEZ DISTRICT, ELEVEN CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGES OF MALJINE AND BIKOSI LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK, DISTRICT THIRTY-TWO CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILAGE OF BILIVODE LOCATED IN THE ZENICA DISTRICT, THREE ELDERLY MEN WERE BURNED ALIVE.

-IN THE VILLAGES OF SUSANJ AND OVNAK LOCATED IN THE TRAVNTK DISTRICT, NINE CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF CUKLE LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, THIRTEEN CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN. 11 NOU ' 93 16: 59 FROM FROM-FPB-SPLIT TO MCCL PAGE. 004/004

-IN THE VILLAGE OF PODOVI LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, SEVENTEEN CIVILIANS GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILAGE OF GRAHOVCICI LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT OF TRAVNIK, EIGHT CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF DOLAC BILE LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, TWO CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF BRAJKOVICI LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, SIX CIVILIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF MILETIC LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, FIVE CIVILIANS WERE MASSACRED.

'IN THE VILLAGE OF POLJE LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, A MAN AND HIS THREE YEAR OLD CHILD WERE KILLED.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF HOSTINJE LOCATED IN THE TRAVNIK DISTRICT, A WOMAN WAS MASSACRED.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF PODGRADIN LOCATED IN THE VITEZ DISTRICT, EIGHT CHILDREN DIED AS THE RESULT OF A LAUNCHED MORTAR SHELL.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF BRDO ZABILJE LOCATED IN THE VITEZ DISTRICT, NINE CIVILIANS AND TEN SOLDIERS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF KAZAGICI LOCATED IN THE KISELJA DISTRICT, FOURTEEN CIVILIANS WERE SLAUGHTERED.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF PEZICI LOCATED IN THE BUSCOVACA DISTRICT, FIVE SOLDIERS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF SIRICI LOCATED IN THE BUSOVACA DISTRICT, FIVE SOLDIERS WERE STABBED TO DEATH.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF GALINE KUCE LOCATED IN THE BUSOVACA DISTRICT, AN ELDERLY MAN WAS BURNED TO DEATH.

-IN THE VILLAGES OF LASVA, DUSINA AND VISNJICE LOCATED IN THE BUSOVACA DISTRICT, FOURTEEN CIVILLIANS WERE GUNNED DOWN.

-IN A PRISON (CALLED THE KPD) LOCATED IN THE ZENICA DISTRICT, THIRTY SOLDIERS WERE GUNNED DOWN AND SIX WERE HUNG TO DEATH.

-IN THE VILLAGE OF ZALJE LOCATED IN THE ZENICA DISTRICT, TEN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.

-IN THE TOWN OF ZUBICI LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT OF NOVI TRAVNIK, EIGHT CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.

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