Republika Srpska - Jošanica - crimes against Serbs /6/
08/02/2025
10:00
When I found my Stoja, my mother's daughter, her clothes torn, blood and bruises around her thighs. The veins on her arm were cut so that blood was slowly flowing out. She was still showing signs of life... I started when I saw three men and one woman. The woman came up to my Stoja first and started to wrap her arms. I mean, poor thing, she wants to save her. And when I, damn it, saw what they wanted from a dead woman, I fell on her to protect her with my body. They stripped me off her and dragged me a few meters, and then...
By: Tatjana Parađina
FOČA, AUGUST 2 /SRNA/ - Dušanka Višnjić-Lalović also testified about the attack and crime in Jošanica, saying that on December 19, 1992, on St. Nicholas Day, there was no snow in Jošanica, it was cold and freezing, when the Muslim bloody feast against innocent, bare-armed locals began.
“My father's sister, my aunt, and her husband also came to my father's house. I helped her prepare for the St. Nicholas Day celebration. Before the attack on the village, I slept all night, and in the morning I was awakened by terrible gunfire, shouts, noise, panic...
I got up and got dressed, and saw that all the hamlets in Jošanica were burning. It seemed as if a million drums were beating, bullets were falling on the roof of the house and this caused indescribable panic and pressure among the household members," she said.
Dušavica further states that she, along with her aunt and uncle Gojko and Drago Stojanović and grandmother Ljuba Višnjić, set off to flee the village.
Her grandmother had two bombs in a woven bag that she had brought. Dušanka asked her grandmother to give her one.
When they went out onto the road above the village, they were opened fire from infantry weapons and Aunt Gojko was wounded on that occasion.
Dušanka managed to hide in the bushes not far from there and while she was there, she held a bomb in her hand, intending to kill herself if she saw Muslim soldiers approaching her. However, members of the so-called Army of BiH came to her aunt Gojko, who She was previously wounded, and after torturing her, they killed her.
Аfтер that, the Muslim soldiers left, so Dušanka managed to get out of the bushes and continued to flee the village. She caught up with her aunt Drago and grandmother Ljuba, and the grandmother then begged Drago, since he had a rifle with him, to kill them, rather than let them fall into the hands of the Muslims.
From the pressure he experienced at that time, blood started coming out of Drago's mouth, and Dušanka then told him not to kill them because they would get away because there were no more Muslims near them.
After they returned to the village through the forest, they found a horrific scene. The houses were on fire, and the Muslim soldiers had left. There they found the bodies of Rade Višnjić, Dragan Blagojević, Mile Škipina and Danilo Kulić, who had been burned behind the house. Old woman Joka Višnjić even had her dead daughter Stoja, married to Stojanović, raped, and then slaughtered.
Her son Toma was killed, her brother-in-law Rado was butchered, as well as many of her relatives from the Kulić family, her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, the Višnjićs, and her friends, the Stojanovićs, with whom she had taken her daughter Stoja in. The confession of Stoja Stojanović’s mother, who was raped and killed by three Muslim soldiers in front of her, is shocking.
"When I found my Stoja, my mother's body, her clothes torn, blood and bruises around her thighs. On her arm, the veins were cut so that the blood was slowly flowing out. She was still showing signs of life. No one was with her at the time. A tear turned to stone in my eye, and the word got stuck in my throat. I started when I saw three men and one woman. The first woman approached my Stoja and started to wrap her arms. I thought, poor thing, she wants to save her. And when I, my mother, saw what they wanted from a dead woman, I fell on her to protect her with my body. They stripped me off her and dragged me a few meters, and then... My mother's body, they raped her while she was dead, right in front of my eyes," said Joka Višnjić, the mother of the martyr Stoja Stojanović, over whom Muslim atrocities were committed. /to be continued/