War Crimes
The village of Divič, on the left bank of the river Drina, near Zvornik, was one of the first Bosnian towns to be ethnically cleansed of its Bosniak population of about 3000.
On 26 May 1992 the Bosniak residents were transferred out of the village on buses and kept overnight in Zvornik. The next day the women and children were driven to the Bosnian government-controlled city of Tuzla. The able-bodied men (a total of 180) were initially detained in the Drina stadium before being taken to makeshift prison in a former office building. Two days later on 29 May most of the men were transferred to the Dom Kultura community centre in Čelopek, others disappeared.
On 10 June 1992 Dušan Vučković and ten other soldiers visited the Dom Kultura. They forced fathers to commit sexual assaults on their sons and beat to death or shot a total of fifteen prisoners. Survivors were given ten minutes to clean the blood, prisoners ordered to carry out the bodies were not seen again. Subsequently Vučković and his companions visited Čelopek almost every night to beat, torture and kill prisoners. On 27 June 1992 Vučković fired a machine gun at the prisoners at random, killing twenty-five. The prison was closed on 29 June 1992 and eighty-four survivors were transferred via Zvornik to the Batković detention camp, near Bijeljina.
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