TOMISLAV MERCEP`S ROLE IN ATROCITIES

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TOMISLAV MERCEP'S ROLE IN ATROCITIES
Uloga Tomislava Merčepa u zločinima
Izvjestaj americke obavjestajne sluzbe – CIA
War criminal
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Testimony of Croatian War Crimes in 1990s Against
Serbian Civilians
By: Miro Bajramovic,
The following text is a testimony of Croatian war crimes against Serbian
civilians during the 1990s Please be advised of reader discretion.
How Serbs were murdered at the Pakrac Field (Pakracka Poljana)
Warning: The text is a testimony of an Ustashi (Croatian Nazi) and it is in its
original (beastly) form, and may be extremely unpleasant for sensitive persons.
Translated by: Alex, Belgrade
Note by Alex: The translation is complete, the only problem appeared with the
months. The months in Croatian are totally different than in Serbian, so the only
mistake could be with the names of the months. Everything else has been translated
fully and completely, with some additional information in the brackets).
Miro Bajramovic, former member of the so-called Mercep Unit, openly testifies about
the crimes that he and his war comrades had committed in Pakrac, Gospic, Zagreb,
Slani...
Feral Tribune Magazine - Croatia
Sept. 1, 1997
Serbian Civilians Murdered
Gospic, November 1991
My name is Miro Bajramovic and I am personally responsible for the death of 86
people. This is the fact that I got to bed with every night, and that I awake with every
morning - that is, if I can sleep at all. I have, by my own hands, murdered 72 people,
including 9 women. We (the Croats) did not make a difference, for us they (the Serbs)
were all Chetniks and enemies. It was really difficult to burn the first house and kill
the first man. After that it all went in a pattern.
I met Tomislav Mercep in 1991 in Dalj. Since then we were in war together. We've
been through a lot together. Our Unit was called "The Rains of Autumn", officially
known as The First Zagreb Special Unit Under Jurisdiction of the (Croatian) Ministry
of Internal Affairs. The Croatian defenders and people know very well who "The
Rains of Autumn" are.
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MURDERS AT GOSPIC AND SLANO
Before we departed for the Pakrac Field (Pakracka Poljana), sometime in
(September?) 1991, we were at Gospic. At Gospic, it was enough for you to be a Serb,
and for you to cease to exist. Our group killed between 90 and 110 people down there,
because we stayed there for a short time, not even a month. For (the town of) Gospic,
the order was: "ethnic cleansing"; we killed the director of the Post Office, the
Hospital, restaurant owners and various other Serbs. Murders were done by a bullet to
the forehead, because we did not have time. I repeat, from the top, there came an
order to decrease the percentage of Serbs at Gospic.
We went to Slano 4 times and murdered 13 persons, all Serbs. Out of those 13, I
killed 8. My group consisted of (the following people): Sinisa Rimac, Miroslav
Brisevac, Igor Mikula and the little Gordana, whose last name I never memorised.
THE PAKRAC FIELD - "PROCESSING" THE PRISONERS
We arrived at the Pakracka Poljana, (translated as the Pakrac Field) sometime in
1991, after we returned from Gospic. We held the prisoners at the basement of the
Middle School, and, in case there were more of them, we put them in the classrooms.
For them, the worst nights were those when we "processed" them in groups, meaning
that we tried to find the best way possible to inflict as much pain as possible upon
them, so that they would admit more. You know what's the best way? You burn the
prisoner - with a flame from a bottle of gas and then you spray some vinegar on them,
mostly on the genitals and the eyes. Then there is a small inductor, an outside
telephone, and you connect the Serb to that. It's a current flowing in one direction, it
can't kill a man, but it can make an unpleasant feeling in a man. Then you ask the
connected Serb where he is from, and he says - from Dvor Na Uni, and then you dial
Dvor Na Uni with the telephone. We stuck up five-wired cables, inside the prisoners'
butt holes, we would leave them there for a few hours so that they could not sit down.
We opened their wounds and placed salt or vinegar on them. Basically, we did not
allow them to stop bleeding. Also, all of them had to learn the Croatian National
Anthem "Lijepa Nasa" (free translation: "Our Beautiful Homeland") on the same date,
and the commander of the prison, Mijo Jolic, made them sing it. He, today, just like
Suljic, owns restaurants across Croatia.
As I recall all those tortures, I wonder how they (members of the Unit) managed to
think of all that. For example, the most painful thing to do was to stick small metal
nails underneath one's fingernails. Add to that 3-phased electricity and nothing is left
of a man. Ashes! Under such tortures, people confessed to everything they knew, and
to everything that was demanded of them. In the beginning, we acted as some sort of
democratic policemen, we would give the Serbs paper on which they would write
down everything they knew, and we asked them to list as many names and locations
as possible.
Tomislav Mercep commanded at the (Pakrac) Field, and I was second in command.
Mercep knew it all. He did not participate personally in the executions, but he read
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everything we wrote in our reports, even though most of the information was spoken
verbally. He knew of every murder, because he was the commander and because he
was a harismatic person to us. A few times he told us: "Tonight, clean all that shit".
That meant that the prisoners were to be murdered. If you disobeyed the order, then
you were a traitor and we at the Pakrac Field murdered equally Croats as well as
Serbs. Even the Croats at the Field were terrified of us. The village would listen to the
cries and screams coming out from the prison, the people could not sleep, but they did
not dare say anything to us. They knew that, if they asked questions, they could end
up in prison themselves.
I once said that all those whom I have killed, have died happy, because I would write
down on a tiny piece of paper that they could pass through our guards, and they would
venture home feeling happy. Then I would take them down with a sniper. They died
with a smile.
Murdered Serbs at Sisak, May 1995
We did not classify Serbs into military and civilian; if we found a gun hidden
anywhere, to us he was a Chetnik. Serbs could barely survive, because people don't
say for nothing - where we passed, the grass did not grow back. As far as I know,
more than 50 Serbs were brought to the (Pakrac) Field from Zagreb, and those who
were close to Mercep had brought them - Rimac, Suljic, Mikula, Hodak, myself…
How long we kept the prisoners is a relative thing. That depended on the time it took
to wear them down. Mostly, before killing them, we would keep them between 2 and
5 days. Even if they survived, they would not be normal people later on. Serbs who
were good and loyal, were used to dig graves, but we told them that they were digging
covers (holes) for the machineguns. One of the prisoners once said that it must have
been his 15th or 16th cover (hole). We killed him on the spot, because it was not his
duty to count, but to dig.
We were very greedy at the time. The 30 of us went 50 meters in front of the first
tank, we would cleanse and murder everyone we would see. Behind us came some
who were called "Mercep's people" who looted and burned homes. People such as
Mardjeralo, Rukavina… Mercep told us to take away everything from the Serbs, and
the money that we found must be given to the headquarters for buying arms. But,
Trusic, Mercep, Rukavina also known as The Priest and Nedeljko Posavec split the
money amongst themselves. How do I know this? A day before the killing of Pavo
Mlinarica, Posavec and Rukavina shot each other, because they did not split the
money into equal parts. Posavec was removed from the Unit, but the money was not
taken from him, and I am talking about 100,000 German Marks, or much more.
I could not say that, at the Pakrac Field, mass executions took place. There were
groups of 7 to 10 people. Basically, it all depended on the number of people currently
at the prison. Sometimes we murdered people in their homes, and then the homes
would be blown up. No bodies. There were lots of such houses, most of them in the
village of Bujavica.
In those days, the mindset was as follows: kill the Serb's child, because it grows even
at a minus 20 degrees Centigrade. Back in those days, I did not feel that the Serbs
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were humans like us, and that they were someone's fathers, brothers, children... No,
we did not kill children, except for Suljic, he killed Alexandra Zec. According to my
estimates, at the (Pakrac) Field, alltogether about 280 people were murdered and that
would include about 10 women. Except for Marina Nuic, I remember a woman named
Nada from Kusonje who was infiltrated among us. There was also an old woman in
whose house a sniper had been found. Except for that old woman, all the other women
were raped and then killed. That is the truth.
THE MURDER OF THE ZEC FAMILY
I don't understand one thing - how come the Zec family consisted of harsmatic
people? It is known that Mihailo Zec worked for the enemies, the Serbs, although he
was a member of HDZ (Franjo Tudjman's rulling party, the Croatian Democratic
Union) and tried to help the Croatian Army. The fact remains that we guarded the
intersections in the Dobrovac village near Lipik, and so we learned that Milorad Zec,
Mihajlo's brother, comes home to sleep every night from Subotska (Subotica? - a
town in Serbia?). And so one night we waited for him in his home in Dobrovac.
We could discuss the "operative processing" of a person, but there are no secrets there
- beatings, harrassments, forced confessions, in any way possible. It was then that he
told us about his brother Mihajlo - what he was doing and for whom.
Upon my arrival to Zagreb, I gave the order for the detention of Mihajlo Zec, and I
received that order from Tomislav Mercep. Mihajlo Zec was more valuable to us
alive, than dead. But, the group that was to take Zec in for questioning, was joined by
Munib Suljic, on his own will and not on anyone's order, who was drugged and drunk
that night. I told Sinisa Rimac that only in the case of resistance should he murder
Mihajlo. He tried to escape, Rimac let him (although I do not get it - how can a young
man, 19 years old, not catch up with that man and overpower him, but, okay, maybe it
all happened in a second), and then Mihajlo was shot.
Then, out of a blue van with no licence plates, because we detained people in Zagreb
in unmarked uniforms and vehicles, came Munib Suljic, who returned to get little
Alexandra and Mrs. Zec. He took them to the Panorama Hotel, then to Sljeme, where
he murdered them.
A few days ago, the Nacional published Suljic's denial. He claimed that he had never
committed that murder. The truth is that Suljic, upon being arrested, had told the
whole story, and the whole confession - he went with the police investigators from
Djordjiceva Street to Sljeme and he finger-pointed at the graves. Then he admitted
that he had done it. The saddest thing is that he threatened Nebojsa-Hodak-Cena, Igor
Mikula, Sinisa Rimac and the little Snjezana Zivkovic from Gospic, and he made
Mikula fire 20 bullets into little Alexandra and Mrs. Zec. Just to make sure. And then
he made those men bury the bodies. That was their role in the affair. Rimac confessed
during the investigation: "I killed Mihajlo Zec, and do not get me involved with
anything else". This is the truth. Today, Mihajlo Zec is being made into some kind of
hero, and people say that he died for nothing, and I often wonder, if I were making
some newspaper, I would write more about Marina Nuic, because she died for nothing
and was innocent.
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GIVING THE ORDERS
I would deny the words of Ivan Vekic from the last edition of the Feral Tribune. He is
lying, he knew it all. I could tell him how many orders our Unit had received from
him. He would say: "I am demanding from you to make this happen... and this... and
this..." We would never return without accomplishing the tasks, that being, most of
the time, murders. His order was to murder Milos Ivosevic, and because of him the
only Serb who survived the (Pakrac) Field was also to be murdered - Stefan
Brajanovic. I repeat, Ivan Vekic knew it all.
I have spent in prison from 2nd (January?) to 30th (April?) 1992. It was so sad for me
when Croatia was recognized on the 15th of (January?) and I was at the Remetinec
prison. We were released when Sheks became public prosecutor, but we were let go in
2 groups. Mikula, Hodak, Snjezana Zivkovic, Suljic and Rimac stayed about 40 days
longer in prison because of (killing) Zec family. The first month in prison was cruel.
No, nobody could touch us, because, had there been any physical torture against us,
the police building at Djordjiceva Street would not exist. Mercep had big influence,
he organized our defence, and also Ivan Vekic, who today says a lot of nonsense. In
those days, he was on our side. Maybe I have mentioned this before, but I repeat that
investigating judges Jovanovic and Horvatinovic were okay and were not interested in
details.
I am a big believer. I hold on my hand the ring from Medjugorje (the place of worship
in Croatia where it is beleived that the Mother of God appears every once in a while).
God forgives everything to a point. I think I have thus far been punished enough for
everything that I have committed. My life's satisfaction would be for my children's
existence, because I know very well what will happen to me after this story, so I
would just like someone to look after my children. I really have a wonderful marriage
and a wonderful family, two wonderful little children. My wife knows about
everything that I had done, because this is the only way we can (continue to) live
together.
I do not feel better now that I have told you everything. I am afraid of my Unit. These
are all experienced professionals, who do not miss often. And I know that I won't
escape the Hague Tribunal.
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The testimony that you have just read is that of Miro Bajramovic, Tomislav Mercep's
deputy, and is about the crimes of Croatian policemen and paramilitary units against
the Serbian civilians. At the time the depicted events took place, the secessionist
Croatia was still part of the legal and recognized entity of Yugoslavia.
Most Western media have, in some way of another, reported about this. But, the
Swedish media refused to make one word of this public. Swedish TV News, "Aktuellt",
had refused to even mention a single word of this planned murder of innocent Serbian
civilians in Croatia. The murder was planned by the top of the tops of the Croatian
authority system.
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