HEADQUARTERS OF THE
3rd POLICE REGIMENT
Number 585
Report on the death of
peasants in Jablanica
TO THE SUPREME POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Z A G R E B . -
Banja Luka, 4 December 1941.
Commander of the police station Orahovo with report number 184 of 1 December 1941 reports:
"On 30 November 1941, according to a telegram report from the district chief in Bosanska Gradiska of 29 November this year in the villages of Trebovljani and Bistrica, Bosanska Gradiska district, I discovered that:
On 25 November 1941 some Ustase companies came around at 15:00 hours in the villages of Sovjak and Milosevo, Bosanska Gradiska district, and took away from Sovjak 57 and from Milosevo 50 people: mostly boys from 12 to 15 years of age, who were shot by machine guns and slaughtered with knives on 26 November 1941 around 6:00 hours a.m. in the Jablanica River.
On 25 November 1941, Ustase came by a cemetery in the village Milosevo, where local peasants were burying someone, and they took away all peasants from that funeral (about 20 of them), left the dead man unburied and killed all those peasants in Jablanica.
On the same day Ustase took away 7 Orthodox [grkoistocnjacke] peasants from villages Orahovo, Bistrica and Trebovljani, Bosanska Gradiska district, who were in the same way killed in Jablanica, and who were mostly completely poor and peaceful peasants.
Because of this there is anxiety among the Croatians, and among Orthodox people great commotion and alarm.
The citizens of Orahovac and Bistrica, no matter their religion, were until today very peaceful and honest peasants, except one who is a member of a rebel gang for some time and who was an outcast among the peasants for many years.
Following the instructions of the district chief I instructed and advised peasants to be peaceful and to stay in their homes, that nothing will happen to them and that they should trust in the protection of the authorities and the law."
I deliver the above report in relation to the report of this regiment, number 579 of 3 December 1941, for your knowledge and competence.
COMMANDER, COLONEL;
Novak
SENT TO:
Supreme police headquarters,
Directorate for public order and safety Zagreb,
Banja Luka military zone B. Luka,
Headquarters of II military area Brod na Savi
Commision for establishment of public order B. Luka