"BRAVE" MUSLIM-CROATIAN CRIMINALS ATTACKED CHILDREN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN LEDIĆI

ISTIČNO SARAJEVO, MAY 29 /SRNA/ - The Serb village of Ledići, Trnovo municipality, was attacked on June 3, 1992, by members of Muslim-Croatian formations, who killed and massacred 22 Serb civilians in the village.

Ledići is a village in the Trnovo municipality, with an area of 12.81 square kilometers. According to the results of the 1991 census, Ledići had 36 inhabitants, of whom 35 were of Serbian nationality. According to the 2013 census, Ledići had five inhabitants, all of whom were Bosniaks.

The attack began at around 7:00 p.m. and lasted the entire night of June 3-4, 1992. The following day, June 4, in Banj Potok, between the villages of Ledići and Dejčići, Nenad Vasić and his wife Mara, who had been in the village of Dejčići that day, were killed, according to the Atlas of Crimes Against Serbs During the Defense-Patriotic War, authored and published by the Republic Center for War, War Crimes and the Search for Missing Persons.

Fearing that other Serbs from the village of Ledići would suffer the same fate, most of the villagers left their homes on June 5, 1992. One group of villagers, including five minor children, set off across Treskavica, intending to flee in the direction of Kalinovik.

On the afternoon of June 6, on the way to the village of Ljuta, on the western side of Treskavica, this group was met by members of Muslim-Croat formations, who arrested 12 people from the group and killed them all on the spot, except for the 11-year-old boy Dragan Vasić, who was left wounded among the corpses. The boy was later pulled out and saved by a Muslim doctor from the area.

That day, Milenko, Milorad, Rade, Nevenka, Vinka Tešanović, Radojka and Slavojka Vasić, and the children Slađana Sekulić, Danijela, Dragomir and Milun Tešanović were brutally killed. A few hours before this massacre on Mount Treskavica, Savo Kenjić was also killed.

The cruelty and manner in which the residents of Ledići were killed is clearly demonstrated by the autopsy report from the exhumation of two-year-old Milun Tešanović, which states that "death was violent and occurred as a result of the destruction of the head by the action of a blunt, heavy and swung mechanical tool".

A group of residents of Ledići left their homes on June 8, 1992, via Strajishte in the direction of Vojkovići, and managed to reach the Crisis Staff of the Republika Srpska Army /RSA/. After June 8, several older men and women remained in the village of Ledići, who were either killed or arrested and taken to prison in the village of Dejčići.

Stojan Vasić, his wife and three children, and Milenko Miovčić were taken to prison, and after brutal torture, killed in the Elementary School in Dejčići on August 11, 1992. The elderly Rade Miovčić and Savka Vasić were killed on their doorstep. When Savka Vasić's body was exhumed, her head was never found, which suggests that it had been severed.

On June 18, 1992, members of Muslim-Croatian formations arrested and took five elderly women, the last residents of the village of Ledići, towards Treskavica, massacred them at a place called "Ledićka krivina" on the gravel road Trnovo-Rakitnica, and then threw them into a pile about 15 meters below the road.

During the on-site investigation, which was carried out on November 17, 1993, only skeletons without skulls and some clothing were found on the surface of the ground, on the basis of which the victims were identified.

One skull, without the lower jaw, was found separated from the rest of the skeleton, another was smashed into pieces, while the other three were not found at all. Tankosava Miovčić, Ikonija, Ljubica, Milka and Zora Vasić were killed at that spot.

The memorial in the village itself also contains the names of Stana and Lenka Tešanović, who were killed by sniper shots on August 2, 1992 in Miljevina, because they were born and lived in Ledići until they fled in June 1992.