"I watched them as they shot my soldiers in the head, blood was everywhere": Shocking confession of Serbian general on massacre in Dobrovoljacka street (VIDEO)

Yesterday marks 25 years since the massacre in Dobrovoljacka street in Sarajevo, when in the attack on the Yugoslav People's Army 42 were killed and 73 soldiers and officers of different nationalities were wounded. Nobody answered for the crime. I can not accept that it is placed under the carpet as an obstacle to political relations, we live in pain, said general Dusan Kovacevic in the shocking confession to Sputnik. 

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The interlocutor of Sputnik was the right hand man of General Milutin Kukanjac, commander of the Third Army, and a direct participant in the negotiations on drawing the army out from Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) judicial institutions have not done anything on the processing of the culprits and the victims' families have not received answers to the question of who ordered and who killed their sons and husbands. General Dusan Kovacevic believes that there is enough irrefutable evidence of the crime.

Pritnskrin: Youtube

What was the reason to attack the Yugoslav People's Army convoy? You are one of the rare who claim that Alija Izetbegovic actually advocated for peaceful solution of the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is hard to believe that after what happened later. 

- Yugoslav People's Army was in Bosnia 50 years ago, and Muslim side persistently claimed that we were aggressors, as they claim now, as if we came from another planet. There were more causes for the attack, above all, Muslim leadership, under the glove of Ejup Ganic, wanted war at all costs, because they estimated that only in that way, they can get  a sovereign state, which will be arranged as islamic state. Alija Izetbegovic signed second Kutijerov peace plan, and all signed it. Izetbegovic was for it, but he was also under pressure of Americam ambassador in Belgrade, Warren Zimmerman, under pressure of England and Ganic, who was the representative of the radical side that wanted Alija executed, because he was unreliable. He knew that it would cause war. Upon his arrival from Lisbon, no one waited for Alija at the airport. I had the access to intelligence and security information. General Blagoje Adzic personally called him from Belgrade and said, rescue, protect Izetbegovic, there will be disaster. We took him in, protected him, explained what was going on, Alija was distrustful. At the same time, an attack was launched on the command of the second Army area from all sides, people died there. He couldn't do anything, but he was willing. On the next day, that May 3, he said that he will guaranty the safety of the convoy with his presence when they leave the city to the territory of Lukavica where we were free to go, but the column was attacked.

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You were in an ambulance vehicle in Dobrovoljacka street where few people died, between others, doctor Budimir Radulovic, father of Serbian politician Sasa Radulovic. You brought the key decision for the vehicle to move on, and so you saved lives. How it looked like?

- I happened to be next to the vehicle, I was superior to Dr. Radulovic, he said: Boss, enter the ambulance. We went to the bridge Drvenija when column was stopped, we were under attack from all sides, they pointed their rifles at our heads, members of the Patriotic League, the Green Berets, but mostly there were civilians who abducted weapons and shot at the members of the Yugoslav People's army. They took off our uniforms. We were shot at from a "Kalashnikov", burst hit colonel Miro Sokic, who was Croat by nationality. It blew his head out, blood and brains were everywhere around, on my face and body. Colonel Mico Pantelic was wounded. They wanted us to go out of the vehicle, but i didn't allow it. They cursed, they called us Serb-Chetniks, that Bosnia is a Muslim country, that it can't be Serbian and Christian. Bursts were heard again, Dr Radulovic was killed in the car. Some force, vision of God, gave me strength to resist all attacks and order to move on towards military hospital. We moved on, and fire was opened at us in an intersection from mosque and nearby bookstore. Chaos followed, Nurmela Suko, citizen in the service of Yugoslav People's army, was shot in the head. I was shot in the shoulder. Soldier Dragan Kovacevic was shot with seven bullets, bulletproof vest saved him which i gave to him. I didn't allow him to take it off, that saved his life, and mine as well, because those bullets would go through him and they would kill me.

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I talked to your daughter who told me what kind of hell her and her mother went through while you were in the hospital, and they were in the apartment in Sarajevo. That, unfortunately, is not the destiny of your family only, bit great tragedy happened in Sarajevo, and it is forgotten that Serbs used to live there as well. 

- That is another question that is hushed up on courts, and it is not talked about in any level of conversation. There were more than 150.000 Serbs in Sarajevo, and now there are very few of them left. I participated, i watched those suffering, that torture, it is terrible what was done. When fascists took Jews, they imprisoned them, beat them, tortured and raped them. There is no difference in what i watched in movies and what i lived through. My family, daughter and wife, have lived the same. They stormed in the apartment daily, took things, robbed them. They threatened they will take them to the concentration camp or to a public house. They told my wife i was a Chetnik and to keep that in mind, that they have the orders to do with them whatever they want, even to take them to execution. They showed the paper where they got the permission. That was terrible, they were both screaming, imagine the mother crying with her 16 year old daughter who they want to take to the public house. Luckily that there were people, one neighbor, who was Muslim, who prevented that. Thanks to her, were managed to leave Sarajevo to safe territory on 9 August.

There were words last year in Banja Luka, that 3 May could be declared a day of marking of suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo-Romanija region, but Bosnjaks should be prepared first, because it is a sensitive issue. What do you think about that? 

- I speak in the name of all people who think the same as me, who suffered, we carry a disappointment, unpleasant realization that the politics avoids talking on the subject. How is it possible that Serbian side and Republika Srpska and Serbia did not ask for the investigation to be continued about the crime in Dobrovoljacka street. There are solid, irrefutable evidence backed by all international organizations for this crime. Politicians said that they are doing the best they can, i answered the president of the government that it is not enough. How is it possible that for every murder of a single man, Muslim or Croat, people are judged on all possible courts, and for what was done to Serbs, and to the members of Yugoslav People's Army who were Croats and Muslims, no one is being judged? That is terrible, it is unacceptable, i can't accept that it is put under carpet as a disturbance to the political relations. Reconciliation comes only when the past is settled. All politicians say, let go of the past, lets look at the future. Whoever said that is a fraud, because he won't say to what future Serbs should go. The same past has been happening to us in the past 100 years. Our future is the past, suffering, disappearing, crimes before God, just because we are Serbs, orthodox and we want to be on our own, and we never wish for evil to anyone else.

(Telegraf.co.uk)