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\u201cDear Duce,
My boundless loyalty to You, I hope, gives me the right to deviate, in some respect, from strict military protocol. That is why I hasten to describe to You an event I personally witnessed three weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While visiting the district towns of Stolac, \u010capljina, and Ljubinje (between 60 and 130 km north of Dubrovnik) \u2014 I learned from our intelligence officers that Paveli\u0107\u2019s Usta\u0161e had, the previous day, committed a crime in a village (Prebilovci), and that, once it becomes known, the surrounding Serbs would again become agitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I lack the words to describe what I found there. In a large school classroom, I found a slaughtered female teacher and 120 of her pupils! Not a single child was older than 12! \u201cCrime\u201d is an inadequate and na\u00efve word. It exceeded all madness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many had their heads cut off and lined up on school desks. From slashed abdomens, the Usta\u0161e pulled intestines and, like New Year\u2019s streamers, stretched them under the ceiling and nailed them to the walls! A swarm of flies and an unbearable stench made it impossible to stay there long. I noticed an opened sack of salt in the corner and, horrified, realized they had been slowly slaughtered, with their necks being salted! And just as we were leaving, a child\u2019s gurgling was heard from the last bench. I sent two soldiers to check. They brought out one pupil \u2014 he was still alive, breathing with a half-severed windpipe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took that poor child in my own car to our military hospital, brought him back to consciousness, and from him we learned the full truth of the tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The criminals had first, in turns, raped the Serbian teacher (her name was Stana Arnautovi\u0107) and then killed her in front of the children. They raped girls as young as eight. All the while, a forcibly brought Roma orchestra played music and beat tambourines!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the eternal shame of our Roman Church, even a man of God, a parish priest, participated in all of this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boy we saved recovered quickly. As soon as the wound healed, due to our carelessness, he escaped from the hospital and went to his village in search of relatives. We sent a patrol after him, but in vain; they found him slaughtered on the doorstep of his house! Of over a thousand souls in the village, no one remains!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That same day, as we later discovered, when the school massacre occurred, the Usta\u0161e captured another 800 residents of Prebilovci and threw them into a pit or killed them like animals on the way. Only about 300 men survived. They were the only ones who managed to break through the Usta\u0161e encirclement and flee to the mountains!<\/p>\n\n\n\n