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TOMISLAV MERCEP'S ROLE IN ATROCITIES

Uloga Tomislava Merčepa u zločinima

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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.



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



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



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.



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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