US embassy cable - 95ZAGREB4432

CONFIDENTIAL SECTION 01 OF 04 ZAGREB 004432 
 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 ZAGREB 004432 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BRUSSELS ALSO FOR USEU 
USVIENNA ALSO FOR USDEL CSCE 
 
E.O. 12958:  DECL: 11/5/05 
TAGS: War Crimes 
SUBJECT:  HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES - DETENTION CAMPS IN SANSKI 
          MOST AND PRIJEDOR; SANSKI MOST AND KLJUC TODAY 
 
 
1.  (U)  CLASSIFIED BY ROBERT P. FINN, CHARGE, 1.5 (D). 
 
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SUMMARY: POW/CIVILIAN EXCHANGE 
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2.  (U)  ZAGREB AND SARAJEVO POLOFFS TRAVELED TO SANSKI 
MOST AND KLJUC OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2 TO INTERVIEW 
MUSLIMS RELEASED OCTOBER 30 IN A PRISONER EXCHANGE BETWEEN 
THE B-H ARMY (ABH) AND BOSNIAN SERB ARMY (BSA).  461 
PEOPLE CROSSED SIDES AT THE CONFRONTATION LINE IN KOPRIVNA 
AT 1000 ON OCTOBER 30, SIX KILOMETERS NORTH OF SANSKI 
MOST.  THE BSA RELEASED TWENTY-ONE (21) ABH V CORPS 
SOLDIERS AND THREE HUNDRED AND THREE (303) MALE MUSLIM 
CIVILIANS.  THE ABH RELEASED TWENTY-ONE (21) BSA LST 
KRAJINA CORPS SOLDIERS, ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN (114) 
CROATIAN SERB (ARSK) SOLDIERS, AND TWO MALE CIVILIANS. 
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POLOFFS INTERVIEWED 13 MUSLIM CIVILIANS AND ONE V CORPS 
SOLDIER (SEPTEL), AND VISITED ONE SITE IN SANSKI MOST 
WHERE THE CIVILIANS WERE INTERNED BEFORE THE TOWN FELL TO 
THE ABH.  THEY PROVIDED NAMES OF MISSING AND DEAD WHICH 
HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO ICRC ZAGREB.  THERE WAS ONE 
REPORT OF THREE BURNED BODIES IN AN OVEN AT THE CERAMICS 
FACTORY AND SEVERAL REPORTS OF OTHER COLLECTIVE KILLINGS. 
THE EX-DETAINEES SPENT ONE NIGHT IN A COLLECTIVE CENTER IN 
KLJUC, AND THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE ABLE-BODIED MEN WERE 
RELEASED TO THEIR HOMES.  TWELVE MEN WERE STILL IN THE 
HOSPITAL IN KLJUC SUFFERING FROM INJURIES INCURRED DURING 
THEIR DETENTION, BUT THE COMMANDER OF THE MILITARY 
HOSPITAL WOULD NOT ALLOW POLOFF TO INTERVIEW THEM.  ZAGREB 
POLOFF ALSO MET WITH VII CORPS COMMANDER GENERAL ALAGIC, 
KLJUC MAYOR ASIM EGRLIC, SANSKI MOST MAYOR MIRZET KARABEG, 
AND SEPARATELY WITH HIS ADVISER, SUAD KURBEGOVIC.  END 
SUMMARY. 
 
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SANAKERAM FACTORY 
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3.  (U)  POLOFFS INTERVIEWED 12 MUSLIM CIVILIANS AS A 
GROUP UNDER LESS THAN IDEAL CONDITIONS AT THE SANSKI MOST 
CITY HALL.  ABH VII CORPS COMMANDER GENERAL ALAGIC AND 
SANSKI MOST MAYOR MIRZET KARABEG PARTICIPATED IN THE 
INTERVIEW.  THE 12 DESCRIBED THEIR TRAUMATIC ORDEAL FROM 
SEPTEMBER 21 UNTIL OCTOBER 30 IN THE HANDS OF THE BOSNIAN 
SERBS.  ALL 303 MUSLIM CIVILIANS RELEASED HAD LIVED IN 
SANSKI MOST AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES, AND HAD BEEN 
DETAINED AS A GROUP DURING THIS PERIOD.  THEY SAID BETWEEN 
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350-400 TEENAGE BOYS AND MEN WERE HELD FROM SEPTEMBER 21 
UNTIL OCTOBER 10 AT THE SANAKERAM CERAMICS FACTORY IN 
DONJI KAMENGRAD, 4 KM WEST OF SANSKI MOST.  ON OCTOBER 10, 
PRIOR TO THE FALL OF SANSKI MOST, THEY WERE MOVED TO AN 
AUTO SERVICE SHOP (AUTOPREVOZ) IN THE URIJE DISTRICT OF 
PRIJEDOR, WHERE THEY WERE HELD UNTIL OCTOBER 30.  THE MEN 
SAID THAT 45 OTHERS WERE LEFT BEHIND AT AUTOPREVOZ WHEN 
THEY WERE RELEASED. 
 
4.  (U)  THE MEN REPORTED THAT BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS, 
ARKAN PARAMILITARIES AND REGULAR POLICE ROUNDED THEM UP 
FROM THEIR HOMES ON SEPTEMBER 21 AND DETAINED THEM AT 
SANAKERAM.  UNTIL THAT DATE, THE MEN HAD BEEN UNDER FORCED 
WORK OBLIGATION FOR THREE YEARS, MOSTLY DIGGING TRENCHES 
AND AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY WORK.  ALMOST FOUR HUNDRED 
WERE HELD IN THE KITCHEN AND CAFETERIA OF THE FACTORY. 
THE ROOM HAD NO VENTILATION OR HYGIENE FACILITIES.  THEY 
RECEIVED ONE OR TWO SLICES OF BREAD PER DAY AND SOMETIMES 
A SMALL CUP OF BEAN SOUP.  LITTLE WATER WAS AVAILABLE. 
INITIALLY, SEVERAL DAYS PASSED BEFORE THE GROUP RECEIVED 
ITS FIRST "MEAL."  ONE 58-YEAR OLD MAN REPORTED LOSING 
OVER 30 KILOS (65 LBS.) DURING THE PERIOD.  MEN SLEPT IN 
EVERY CORNER, INCLUDING ON THE KITCHEN STOVE, UNDER 
TABLES, AND IN THE SMALL TOILET.  NO ONE WASHED OR CHANGED 
 
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AMEMBASSY BELGRADE 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 02 OF 04 ZAGREB 004432 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BRUSSELS ALSO FOR USEU 
USVIENNA ALSO FOR USDEL CSCE 
 
E.O. 12958:  DECL: 11/5/05 
TAGS:  PHUM PREF PGOV PINR BK HR 
SUBJECT:  HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES - DETENTION CAMPS IN SANSKI 
          MOST AND PRIJEDOR; SANSKI MOST AND KLJUC TODAY 
 
CLOTHES DURING THE SIX WEEK DETENTION. 
 
5.  (U)  GUARDS CONTINUALLY HARASSED AND TORTURED THE 
PRISONERS.  THE 12 REPORTED CONSTANT NIGHTLY BEATINGS. 
MEN WERE CALLED OUT BY NAME OR CHOSEN AT RANDOM AND TIED 
TO A CHAIR IN THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING.  THEY 
WERE BEATEN WITH POLICE BATONS, RIFLES, PISTOLS AND HEAVY 
BOOTS.  SOMETIMES GROUPS OF ABOUT 10 WERE CALLED OUT AND 
BEATEN.  THE MEN SAID THAT TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR 
DETENTION, ONE SUCH GROUP OF TWELVE WAS BADLY BEATEN, THEN 
WAS TAKEN OUT BEHIND THE BUILDING AND SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE. 
ONLY ONE MAN SURVIVED.  (WE WERE UNABLE TO LOCATE THIS 
INDIVIDUAL.)  THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR THE END OF THEIR 
DETENTION AT SANAKERAM.  IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, A GUARD 
FIRED THROUGH A GLASS WINDOW INTO THE ROOM.  THE BULLET 
RICOCHETED OFF THE WALL AND HIT ONE MAN IN THE HEAD.  HE 
DIED INSTANTLY.  (LATER, IN THE FACTORY, THE TEAM SAW THE 
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RICOCHET MARK AND BLOOD STAIN.) 
 
6.  (U)  THE MEN SAID GUARDS CAME INTO THE ROOM ONLY TO 
CALL PEOPLE OUT.  HOWEVER, GUARDS CONSTANTLY STOOD VIGIL 
AROUND THE BUILDING AND WERE SEEN BY THE MEN THROUGH THE 
WINDOWS THAT LINED THREE SIDES OF THE CAFETERIA.  ONE MAN 
SAID HE HAD COUNTED 11 GUARDS OUTSIDE, WORKING IN FOUR 
SHIFTS PER DAY.  THE MEN BELIEVED THE GUARDS BELONGED TO 
ARKAN'S BRIGADE BECAUSE THEY WORE RED BERETS.  ONE 
PRISONER SAID ABOUT 20 OF THEM HAD SERBIAN ACCENTS. 
OTHERS SPOKE WITH A LOCAL ACCENT.  THE MAYOR SAID THAT 
THREE BURNED BODIES HAD BEEN FOUND IN AN INDUSTRIAL OVEN 
IN THE FACTORY WHEN IT WAS LIBERATED. 
 
7.  (U)  AT THE SANAKERAM FACILITY, A CRIPPLED EX- 
DETAINEE, ABOUT 40, WHO HAD RETURNED TO SEARCH FOR A COAT 
HE HAD LEFT BEHIND, SHOWED US THE ROOM WHERE HE WAS HELD. 
A POTENT FETID SMELL OVERWHELMED THE GROUP ON ENTERING THE 
CAFETERIA.  IT WAS EVIDENT THAT MANY PEOPLE HAD LIVED 
THERE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD IN TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. 
BLOOD AND EXCREMENT STAINS REMAINED ON THE WALLS AND 
FLOORS OF THE CAFETERIA, THE ENTRANCE, AND OTHER SMALL 
OFFICES.  OUR IMPROMPTU GUIDE POINTED OUT POSITIONS WHERE 
GUARDS HAD STOOD WATCH OVER THE BUILDING AND THE PLACES OF 
THE FIRING SQUAD AS THEY SHOT THE 11 PRISONERS.  HE 
IDENTIFIED A TORN CHAIR IN THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO WHICH 
PRISONERS HAD BEEN TIED AND BEATEN. 
 
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8.  (U)  ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 10, THE MEN WERE TAKEN 
OUT OF THE BUILDING AND FORCED TO MARCH ON THE ROAD AND 
THROUGH THE FOREST TOWARD PRIJEDOR.  AT DZEVAR FIELD, THEY 
SAT DOWN WITH THEIR HEADS LOWERED AND A SOLDIER EXCLAIMED 
THAT THEY WOULD ALL BE KILLED.  ONE DOCTOR AMONG THE 
MUSLIMS THEN STEPPED OUT AND TOOK ASIDE A SOLDIER WHO 
APPEARED TO BE IN COMMAND.  THE SOLDIERS MADE THE MEN SIT 
IN THE SHADOWS, UNDER TREES.  AFTER ONE HOUR, THE GROUP 
WAS BROUGHT WATER.  THEY STARTED MARCHING AGAIN, AND 
REACHED THE VILLAGE OF RASAVCI, OVER FIFTEEN KM FROM THE 
FACTORY, BEFORE TRUCKS ARRIVED TO TAKE THEM TO THEIR 
DESTINATION. 
 
9.  (U)  THE GROUP WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE WAREHOUSE OF AN 
AUTO TRANSPORT SERVICE (AUTOPREVOZ) IN THE URIJE DISTRICT 
OF NORTH PRIJEDOR.  FOR FIVE DAYS THEY RECEIVED ONLY 
WATER.  NO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION VISITED THEM.  WHEN 
VISITORS ARRIVED, THE SOLDIERS HID THE PRISONERS IN THE 
WOODS FOR HOURS UNTIL THE STRANGERS LEFT.  CONDITIONS AT 
THIS CENTER WERE SIMILAR TO THOSE IN SANSKI MOST.  FOOD 
WAS IRREGULAR.  BEATINGS OCCURRED REGULARLY.  ONE GUARD 
TOLD THE PRISONERS ON ARRIVAL, "I'VE GOT THE PLEASURE TO 
BEAT YOU ALL TONIGHT."   FOUR GUARDS STOOD INSIDE THE 
 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 03 OF 04 ZAGREB 004432 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BRUSSELS ALSO FOR USEU 
USVIENNA ALSO FOR USDEL CSCE 
 
E.O. 12958:  DECL: 11/5/05 
TAGS:  PHUM PREF PGOV PINR BK HR 
SUBJECT:  HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES - DETENTION CAMPS IN SANSKI 
          MOST AND PRIJEDOR; SANSKI MOST AND KLJUC TODAY 
 
BUILDING WHERE THEY WERE HOUSED, AND OTHERS REMAINED 
OUTSIDE.  ON OC 
TOBER 29, BUSES DROVE THEM SOUTH AND THEY 
WERE TOLD THEY WOULD BE EXCHANGED.  THIS EXCHANGE WAS 
UNSUCCESSFUL, AND THEY RETURNED TO PRIJEDOR.  THE 
FOLLOWING DAY, THE EXCHANGE SUCCEEDED. 
 
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SECRET CENSUS OF SANSKI MOST 
 
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10.  (C)  MAYOR KARABEG SHOWED POLOFFS A CAREFULLY 
COMPILED LIST OF NAMES AND NUMBERS FOR EACH VILLAGE IN THE 
AREA OF SANSKI MOST.  HE SAID THESE LISTS WERE COMPILED BY 
VELID SELMAN (PROTECT), A SCHOOLTEACHER WHO HAD SECRETLY 
TAKEN A COMPLETE CENSUS OF THE TOWN SINCE MAY.  HE WAS 
HELPED BY THE MERHAMET HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTION 
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CENTERS.  SANSKI MOST HELD 3704 PEOPLE AT THE END OF MAY. 
ABOUT TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE HAD LEFT DURING THE SUMMER, 
BUYING THEIR WAY TO CROATIA OR OTHER COUNTRIES.  THERE 
WERE 893 MEN BETWEEN 16 AND 60.  HE SAID 410 WERE TAKEN TO 
SANAKERAM, 60 TO A CAMP IN SEHOVACA, AND 105 HELD IN 
BETONIRKA, A CEMENT FACTORY.  OTHERS LEFT ON CONVOYS.  WE 
HAVE INFORMED THE ICRC OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS DOCUMENT. 
 
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11.  (U)  SUAD KURBEGOVIC, ADVISER TO THE SANSKI MOST 
MAYOR, TOLD ZAGREB POLOFF OCTOBER 31 THAT OVER 200 MUSLIMS 
AND 70-100 CROATS WERE KILLED DURING THE SERB WITHDRAWAL 
FROM SANSKI MOST.  HE REPORTED FIRING SQUAD KILLINGS IN 
THE VILLAGES OF TRNOVA AND SEJKOVACA: 8-15 PEOPLE DIED IN 
EACH INSTANCE.  SEVENTEEN BUSES HAVE RETURNED DISPLACED 
PEOPLE TO THEIR HOMES FROM ZENICA IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS. 
200-300 CROATS STILL LIVE IN SANSKI MOST, ALTHOUGH VERY 
FEW SERBS REMAINED.  POLOFF VISITED THE EMPTY SOCCER 
STADIUM IN TOWN, A SITE WHERE PROFESSOR KOLJEVIC CLAIMED 
MUSLIMS WERE INTERNING 2000 SERBS.  TOWN OFFICIALS HAD 
TRANSFORMED THE STADIUM INTO A CAR IMPOUND LOT FOR SERB 
VEHICLES.  A FEW HORSES GRAZED THE PLENTIFUL GREEN GRASS, 
AN INDICATION THAT 2000 PEOPLE COULD NOT RECENTLY HAVE 
CAMPED THERE. 
 
12.  (U)  THE TOWN APPEARED MOSTLY INTACT, ALTHOUGH THE 
TEAM DROVE THROUGH MANY RECENTLY DESTROYED SERB VILLAGES 
AND THREE-YEAR-OLD DESTROYED MUSLIM VILLAGES.  WATER WAS 
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AVAILABLE AS WAS MINIMAL ELECTRICITY.  TELEPHONE SERVICE 
WAS NON-EXISTENT.  THE TOWN HAD BEEN UNABLE TO HOOK UP TO 
THE ELECTRICITY GRID IN JAJCE BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS WITH THE 
HVO, SO KURBEGOVIC SAID ALTERNATE PLANS WERE BEING MADE TO 
RECEIVE ELECTRICITY FROM BIHAC.  ON NOVEMBER 1, ABH VII 
CORPS, BASED IN TRAVNIK, MOVED ITS REGIONAL COMMAND CENTER 
FROM KLJUC TO SANSKI MOST AS THE LATTER WAS TRANSFERRED 
FROM V CORPS'S TO VII CORPS'S AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (AOR) 
THAT DAY.  GENERAL ALAGIC WAS SKEPTICAL OF EFFORTS THE 
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WAS MAKING TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN 
RIGHTS CONDITIONS AND WAR CRIMES, EVEN THOSE COMMITTED BY 
THE SERBS.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS IN THE AREA ALSO HAD 
DIFFICULTY DEALING WITH ALAGIC.  ALAGIC WAS DETAINED AND 
TORTURED BY SERBS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, AND REMAINS 
VERY BITTER NOT ONLY AT Q 
ICRC AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL GROUPS WHO, HE FEELS, DID 
NOTHING SUBSTANTIVE TO PREVENT THE MISTREATMENT OF THOSE 
HELD.  ON NOVEMBER 2, BETWEEN BOSANSKO GRAHOVO AND LIVNO, 
THE EMBASSY TEAM PASSED 8-10 TRAVNIK-REGISTERED BUSES AND 
ABH MILITARY-REGISTERED TRUCKS HEADED NORTH, FILLED WITH 
UNIFORMED MEN. 
 
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BRUSSELS ALSO FOR USEU 
USVIENNA ALSO FOR USDEL CSCE 
 
E.O. 12958:  DECL: 11/5/05 
TAGS:  PHUM PREF PGOV PINR BK HR 
SUBJECT:  HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES - DETENTION CAMPS IN SANSKI 
          MOST AND PRIJEDOR; SANSKI MOST AND KLJUC TODAY 
 
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13.  (U)  ON OCTOBER 31, KLJUC MAYOR ASIM EGRLIC TOLD 
POLOFF THAT KLJUC NOW HAD A POPULATION OF 4000, MOSTLY 
RETURNEES FROM THE TOWN, BUT ALSO DISPLACED PERSONS FROM 
PRIJEDOR AND PRNJAVOR.  ABOUT 670 MUSLIMS HAD STAYED 
DURING THE SERB OCCUPATION.  HE SAID ONLY 10 ELDERLY SERBS 
LIVED IN THE TOWN CURRENTLY.  EGRLIC PROVIDED POLOFF WITH 
TWENTY NAMES OF MEN LAST SEEN DIGGING TRENCHES IN KLJUC IN 
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER WHICH HE HAD NOT YET REPORTED MISSING 
TO THE ICRC.  WE PASSED THESE NAMES TO ICRC ZAGREB.  THE 
TOWN HAD SUBMITTED TO THE ICRC 570 NAMES OF KLJUC 
RESIDENTS MISSING SINCE 1992.  KLJUC HAD SIMILAR 
INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS TO SANSKI MOST, AND WAS ABLE TO 
GENERATE MINIMAL ELECTRICIT 
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