THERE WAS WAR IN SARAJEVO EVEN BEFORE THE WAR!

EAST SARAJEVO, MAY 25 /SRNA/ - In the period from March 5 to April 14, 1992, there were a total of 64 attacks on the JNA on the territory of BiH, including 25 attacks on JNA units, 21 attacks on members, and 18 attacks on JNA property and facilities.

According to data from the Atlas of Crimes against Serbs, authored and published by the Republic Center for War, War Crimes and the Search for Missing Persons, on March 27, 1992, in the morning, about 15 tanks and 15 armored personnel carriers moved from Slavonski Brod to the then Bosanski Brod.

The transporters were engaged in an attack on Territorial Defense units in the village of Liješće. The attack was repelled, and the transporters returned to the town.

In Travnik, at the barricades, on March 28, at around 5:00 p.m., returning from Banja Luka, Lieutenant Colonel Miro Simonović was captured, along with civilian Salko Zajimović, Dušan Radumil and soldier-driver Marjan Veličković, all from the Command of the 2nd Military District.

On that occasion, automatic rifles, two pistols and a Zastava Iveco vehicle were seized, and the individuals were held in a building until 7:30 p.m. Upon intervention by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they were released and transported to the barracks in Travnik, while members of the paramilitary formations retained the pistol and 150 bullets with rifle frames.

In the Mojmilovo Brdo area of Sarajevo, on April 1, at around 8:00 p.m., a group of currently unidentified civilians intercepted Lieutenant Milan Milenković and soldiers Vlastimir Petrović and Milorad Bogićević and took away two automatic rifles from them, and then one of the civilians opened fire and seriously wounded soldier Bogićević.

Lieutenant Milenković and two soldiers were reconnoitering the terrain on Mojmilovo Brdo near the JNA Slaviša Vajner Čiča Barracks in Lukavica.

In Vitez, on April 2, armed civilians stopped and seized four military vehicles, and on April 3, at around 5:20 p.m., a gas tanker parked there by an unknown driver exploded near the registration desk of the Mostar Battalion Barracks in Mostar.

The explosion killed one soldier, seriously wounded four, slightly wounded three soldiers, and damaged the barracks, as well as a civilian building, a railway station and other facilities. 30 civilians were also injured.

On the same day, April 3, 1992, an attack was carried out on JNA positions on the Kupreška Plateau. The Kupreška Gate was blocked and traffic towards Bugojno was blocked. In the town of Han Ploče, Kiseljak municipality, on 4 April 1992, the Interior Ministry of BiH seized four 7.62 rifles and a box of ammunition from four civilians serving in the JNA who were accompanying a military transporter on the route Hadžići – Modriča.

The Jajce Barracks was attacked on 5 April by unknown persons.

THREATS AND ABUSE OF MUSLIMS AGAINST JNA MEMBERS

The treatment of family members of JNA members is also reflected in the words of Danica Radulović, wife of the murdered Colonel Budimir Radulović:

"I have lived in Sarajevo since 1968. My husband Budimir was born in 1935 and the war events found him in the rank of colonel, serving as chief of medical services in the Command of the 2nd Military District. In Sarajevo, we lived at Tome Masarika Street, number 9. After the war events began in Slovenia and Croatia, the security situation in Sarajevo also deteriorated.

In April 1992, my husband went on an official duty to inspect the village of Jarčedoli above Sarajevo. On that occasion, as the local Muslims claimed, they allegedly Serb paramilitary units opened fire on this settlement and killed several Muslims. While conducting the investigation, my husband was provoked by the local Muslim population and threatened with death.

Namely, he asked the local authorities to show him the bodies of the killed Muslims, which they claimed had already been buried, but they asked him to make an official report, which he refused, because he had no evidence.

By the way, he conducted the investigation with Alija Delimustafić, who was the Minister of Internal Affairs of BiH. After this event, I received daily anonymous telephone threats at home that I would be killed, that my husband would be killed and my sons would be slaughtered.

I was employed at the Medical School in Bjelava as the school director and after this event I was constantly under surveillance by a man from the authorities' security of the Muslim `Green Berets`.

On April 6, 1992, I went to the school to organize the celebration of School Day. When I arrived, I saw that it was full of armed members of the `Green Berets`. I went to the MUP and they told me that they did not know who sent these people to the school and that it was probably organized by some extremist Muslim professors from the school itself.

The next day, these soldiers did indeed withdraw from the school. I remember that I was leading a meeting of the school board and I told the literature professor Omer Selimović that he had to adhere to the school curriculum and that he had to cover Njegoš and his works within it, since he refused to do so. I told him that what he was doing was against the law, and he replied that all Serbs would be expelled.

At that time, my husband, Considering that the war events had already begun in Sarajevo itself, he transferred to the Command of the 2nd Military District, where he slept and did not come home."

These are just a few of the mildest examples of attacks on members of the JNA, their families and property during March and April 1992. It is important to emphasize that all this is happening while BiH is still formally and legally part of the SFRY, and the JNA, along with the republican MUP, is the only legal and legitimate armed force on the territory of BiH.

Since the end of 1991, uniformed persons with insignia that would be the hallmarks of the so-called "Army of BiH" in the upcoming war have been freely walking the streets of Sarajevo, then the second city in terms of the number of inhabitants of Serbian nationality, right after Belgrade, while members of the Muslim "Green Berets" have become an everyday occurrence. /to be continued/